Walter Brooke
Born: 1914-10-13 in New York City, New York, U.S.
Died: 1986-08-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics". He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C. Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1985
- Jagged Edge as Duane Bendix
1983
- The A-Team as General Bullen
- Automan as Theodore Behrens
- White Water Rebels as Leonard Phelps
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Dr. Lunden
- Cagney & Lacey as Judge
- Cassie & Co.
- Beyond Reason as Dr. Grovenor
1981
- Falcon Crest as Carter St. John
- Simon & Simon
- Nero Wolfe as George Briggs
- Scruples as Dr. Rutgers
- Separate Ways as Lawrence Stevens
- Advice to the Lovelorn as Walter Sheehan
1980
- The Nude Bomb as American Ambassador
- Make Me an Offer as Glenn Harris
1979
- Knots Landing as Henry
- Hart to Hart
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as U.S. President
- Mrs. Columbo
- Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
- North Dallas Forty as Doctor
- In Search of Historic Jesus as Joseph of Arimathea
- Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
- Visions of Christmas Past
- Mirror, Mirror as Dr. Samuel Shaw
1978
- Dallas as Cole Young
- Vega$
- The New Adventures of Heidi as Cousin Tobias
1977
- The Incredible Hulk
- Lou Grant as Reggie Washburn
- Big Hawaii as Giles Webber
- Fun with Dick and Jane as Mr. Weeks
- Black Sunday as Fowler
- The Pinballs as Mr. Mason
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Twilliger
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Big Bus as Mr. Ames
- St. Ives as Mickey
- Time Travelers as Dr. Stafford
- Fury of the Dragon as Frank P. Scanlon
- Street Killing as The Major
1975
- Starsky & Hutch
- S.W.A.T.
- Bronk
- Archer
- Framed as Sen. Tatum
- Stowaway to the Moon as Whitehead
- The Other Side of the Mountain as Dean
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Sandler
- The Rockford Files as Clyde Russell
- The Six Million Dollar Man as General Harland Tate
- Petrocelli as Arthur Martin
- Run, Joe, Run
- The Cowboys as Reager
- The Green Hornet as Dist. Atty Scanlon
- The Stranger Who Looks Like Me as Mr. Denver
- Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest as Michael Doran
- The Chadwick Family as Dr. Simon
- Winter Kill as Ben
- Harrad Summer as Sam Grove
1973
- Kojak as Judge Lavery
- The Magician as Orin Connover
- Executive Action as Smythe
1972
- M*A*S*H as General Weiskopf
- The Waltons as Mr. Clarence Johnson
- Emergency! as James Barnes
- The Streets of San Francisco
- The Rookies
- Banacek as Walter Peterson
- The Sixth Sense
- The Astronaut as Tom Everett
1971
- McMillan & Wife as D. A. Chapman
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Mr. Patrick
- Alias Smith and Jones
- The Andromeda Strain as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
- Lawman as Luther Harris
- Bearcats! as Fairfield
- The Mephisto Waltz as Party Guest (uncredited)
- The Man and the City
- The Return of Count Yorga as Bill Nelson
- A Tattered Web as Lt. Preston
- Sarge: The Badge or the Cross as Rector
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
- Dan August as Earl Jackson
- Arnie
- The Landlord as William Enders
- Zig Zag as Adam Mercer
- San Francisco International as Clifford Foster Evans
1969
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Dr. Roy Staples
- Room 222
- Marooned as Network Commentator
- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting as Jerry Wolfe
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Samuel Hammock
- Lancer
- The Outsider
- The Outcasts
- Yours, Mine and Ours as Howard Beardsley
- How Sweet It Is! as Haskell Wax
- Sergeant Ryker as Col. Arthur Merriam
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix
- The High Chaparral as Carney
- Dragnet as Capt. Carl Fuller
- The Invaders as Danvers
- Judd, for the Defense
- The Graduate as Mr. McGuire
- The Danny Thomas Hour
1966
- The Green Hornet as Frank P. Scanlon
- The Rat Patrol as Capt. Vulcan
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Prosecutor
- Run for Your Life as The Examiner
- The Big Valley as Dave Steigler
- The F.B.I. as Lucas Vale
- Paradise Bay
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dan Case
- The Munsters
1963
- The Fugitive as Jesse Platt
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Col. Arthur Merriam
- Mr. Novak as Jess Capper
- Arrest and Trial as Doc
- The Great Adventure as Taylor
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- Grindl
1962
- The Virginian as Lt. Paul Kenner
- McHale's Navy as Capt. Harper
- The Beachcomber as Erickson
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
1961
- Dr. Kildare as William Fredericks
- Ben Casey
- Bus Stop
- Bloodlust! as Dean Gerrard
1959
- Bonanza as Tobias Wentworth Finch
- The Twilight Zone as Chad Cooper
- Hawaiian Eye
- New York Confidential
1958
- The Donna Reed Show
- Bronco
- The Party Crashers as Mr. Webster
1957
- Perry Mason as District Attorney
- Trackdown as Doc Walters
1955
- Cheyenne as Edward DeVier
- Gunsmoke as Capt. Nichols
- Conquest of Space as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Mr. Brown
1951
1950
1949
- C-Man as Joe
1948
1942
- The Male Animal as Reporter (uncredited)
- All Through the Night as Reporter (uncredited)
- In This Our Life as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Desperate Journey as Sgt. Warwick
- Murder in the Big House as Reporter (uncredited)
- Bullet Scars as Trooper Walter Leary
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)