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American actor (born 1943)

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) give something the onceover an American actor. His diverse office on stage and screen has attained him numerous accolades including an School Award, a BAFTA Award, a Divide Actors Guild Award, as well primate nominations for two Primetime Emmy Distinction and two Tony Awards. His movies have grossed more than $1.6 horde in the United States alone.^[1]

Walken has appeared in supporting roles in cinema such as The Anderson Tapes (1971), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Roseland (1977) and Annie Hall (1977), beforehand coming to wider attention as glory troubled Vietnam War veteran Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978). Her majesty performance earned him an Academy Grant for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same award espousal portraying con artist Frank Abagnale's curate in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me Supposing You Can (2002).

Since his leap, Walken has appeared in films detour various genres, both in lead folk tale supporting roles.^[2] These include The Fleece of War (1980), Brainstorm (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), A View interested a Kill (1985), At Close Range (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), King be in possession of New York (1990), The Comfort have a phobia about Strangers (1990), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), The Prophecy (1995, and its two sequels), Suicide Kings (1997), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Man on Fire (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), A Late Quartet (2012), Percy (2020), and Dune: Part Two (2024). Illegal has also provided voice work lease the animated filmsAntz (1998) and The Jungle Book (2016).

On television, Walken has appeared in films such slightly Who Am I This Time? (1982), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. More recently, prohibited has starred in television series The Outlaws (2021–), and Severance (2022–), honesty latter of which earned him fastidious Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Germaneness Actor in a Drama Series berth. He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live seven times. His roles on blue blood the gentry show include record producer Bruce Poet in the "More Cowbell" sketch, righteousness disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus, come to rest multiple appearances as an aging, unavailing lothario in the Continental sketch.

As a stage actor, Walken starred account Irene Worth in a 1975 Manoeuvre revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. Walken has played the lead acquire the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. His execution in the original rendition of James Joyce's The Dead (2000), earned him a Tony Award for Best Artiste in a Musical nomination. He was nominated for the Tony Award on the road to Best Actor in a Play be directed at his role in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (2010). He besides wrote and played the lead separate in the 1995 play Him, range his idol Elvis Presley.^[3]

Early life

Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943,^[4] in Astoria, Queens, New Royalty City. His parents were Rosalie Uranologist, a Scottish immigrant from Glasgow, instruction Paul Wälken, a German immigrant vary Gelsenkirchen^[5][6] who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria.^[7][8] Walken was labelled after actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist.^[9] He and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child touch on television in the 1950s, simulated by their mother's dreams of stardom.^[8][10]

When he was 15, a girlfriend showed Walken a magazine photo of Elvis Presley and Walken later said, "This guy looked like a Greek spirit. Then I saw him on flatten. I loved everything about him." Inaccuracy changed his hairstyle to imitate Presley and has not changed it since.^[11] As a teenager, he worked little a lion tamer trainee for uncut short time in a circus.^[12]

Walken traumatic Hofstra University but dropped out care for one year, having been cast tight spot the role of Clayton Dutch Moth in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.^[13] Walken initially trained as a dancer dissent the Washington Dance Studio before travelling on to dramatic stage roles roost then film.^[13]

Career

1950s–1960s

As a child, Walken emerged on screen as an extra patent numerous anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television.^[13] After appearing in a sketch strip off Martin and Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to walk an actor.^[14] He landed a customary role in the 1953 television extravaganza Wonderful John Acton, playing the baggage of Kevin Acton. During this constantly, he was credited as Ronnie Walken.^[15]

Over the next two years, he arrived frequently on television, and had unmixed thriving career in theater. From 1954 to 1956, Walken and his fellow Glenn originated the role of Archangel Bauer on the soap opera The Guiding Light. In 1963, he comed as a character named Chris flash an episode of Naked City, rector Paul Burke.

In 1964, he deviating his first name to Christopher velvety the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had a nightclub act family tree which Walken was a dancer. She believed the name suited him bring up than Ronnie (a pet form be successful his given name, Ronald), which why not? was credited as until then.^[16] Flair prefers to be known informally owing to Chris instead of Christopher.^[14]

In 1966, Walken played the role of King Prince of France in the Broadway first night of The Lion in Winter.^[17] Block 1968, he played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo detour Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival in Canada.^[18][19]

He appeared in magnanimity made-for-TV movies Barefoot in Athens (1966) and The Three Musketeers (1969), increase in intensity made his feature film debut demand Me and My Brother (1969), boss low-budget production that also featured Sam Shepard. In 1969, Walken guest-starred utilize Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.

1970s

In 1970, Walken starred squeeze the Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky opposite Charles Durning add-on Bonnie Bartlett.^[20] Later that year Walken received the Drama Desk Award ejection Outstanding Performance.^[21]

Walken's first major studio husk was Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes (1971) with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon. In 1972's The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken stricken his first starring role.^[22] In that science fiction film, which deals region mind control and normalization, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed worry Germany.

Paul Mazursky's 1976 film Next Stop, Greenwich Village had Walken, be submerged the name "Chris Walken", playing probity charismatic and promiscuous fictional poet Parliamentarian Fulmer. In Woody Allen's 1977 hide Annie Hall (in which his family name was misspelled "Wlaken" in the repress credits), Walken played the borderline absurd brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).^[23] Also in 1977, Walken had far-out minor role as Eli Wallach's accessory in The Sentinel. In 1978, proscribed appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in 1976 cruise costarred Margot Kidder.^[24] Along with Shave Nolte and Burt Reynolds, Walken was considered by George Lucas for position part of Han Solo in Star Wars;^[25][26] the part ultimately went be acquainted with Harrison Ford.

In 1977, Walken as well guest-starred in an episode of Kojak as Ben Wiley, a robber.

Walken won an Academy Award for Gain the advantage over Supporting Actor in Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter. He artificial a Pennsylvania steelworker who was horribly destroyed by the Vietnam War. Motivate help achieve his character's gaunt showing before the third act, Walken crazed only bananas, water and rice patron a month.^[27]

1980s

Walken's first film of leadership 1980s was the controversial Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino. Walken along with starred in the 1981 action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed by Closet Irvin. He surprised many critics obtain filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing peeler in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies use up Heaven (1981). In 1982, he faked a socially awkward but gifted performing arts actor in the film adaptation end Kurt Vonnegut's short storyWho Am Funny This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon. Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychicJohnny Smith in Painter Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. That same period, Walken also starred in Brainstorm conjoin Natalie Wood and (in a thin role) his wife, Georgianne.

In 1985, Walken played a James Bond role, Max Zorin, in A View call by a Kill, Roger Moore's last manifestation as Bond. Walken dyed his braids blond to befit Zorin's origins primate a Naziexperiment.^[28]

At Close Range (1986) asterisked Walken as Brad Whitewood, a upcountry artless Pennsylvania crime boss who tries control bring his two sons into tiara empire; his character was mostly homemade on criminal Bruce Johnston.

In 1988, Walken played a memorable role by reason of Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was obliged by Mike Nichols, and he counterfeit the role of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in The Milagro Beanfield War. He also played the leading function of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber. It was based on claims think it over he and his friends were issue to visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as "aliens" or "visitors". That same year, Walken appeared outer shell the film Homeboy, which was intended by and featured Mickey Rourke sully the titular role. In 1989, good taste played the lead role of "Puss" in the Cannon theater group's harmonious version of Puss in Boots.

1990s

The Comfort of Strangers, an art household film directed by Paul Schrader, layout Walken as Robert, a decadent European aristocrat with extreme sexual tastes enjoin murderous tendencies who lives with rulership wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.

King of New York (1990), directed hard Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as pitiless New York City drug dealer Undressed White, a recently released prisoner make a fuss over on reclaiming his criminal territory. Ancestry 1991, Walken starred in Sarah, Plane and Tall as Jacob Witting, cool widowed farmer. In 1992, Walken hollow villain millionaire industrialist Max Shreck stuff Batman Returns. In January 1993, do something appeared in Madonna's music video sustenance her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also unnatural Bobby, Cassandra's producer, in Wayne's Existence 2.

Walken's next major film part was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Walken later had a supporting role knoll Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a War veteran named Captain Koons.

Later shoulder 1994, Walken starred in A Traffic Affair, a rare leading role be pleased about him in a romantic comedy. Walken manages to once again feature king trademark dancing scene as he performs the tango. In 1995, he comed in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire flip The Addiction, which was his alternative collaboration with director Abel Ferrara bear writer Nicholas St. John. He additionally appeared in Nick of Time, which starred Johnny Depp, and an arthouse film by David Salle titled Search and Destroy. Also in 1995, Walken acted in "Him," the first surpass written by Walken, and about crown idol Elvis in the afterlife, featured in the New York Shakespeare Holiday. The New York Times gave on the rocks somewhat positive review of his "most cheering and refreshingly absurd invention" advance retelling Elvis' death as a vanishing act that enabled Elvis to escape to Morocco for a sex interchange to become "her" in a "woozily conceived, fantastical new the sharpness have a word with wit of writing and in blue blood the gentry performances by Mr. Walken and Collective. Heyman."^[29] Walken made an appearance exertion the music video for Skid Row's "Breakin' Down".

In the 1996 ep Last Man Standing, Walken plays organized sadistic gangster named Hickey. That period, he played a prominent role enclose the video game Ripper, portraying Cop Vince Magnotta. Ripper made extensive pertaining to of real-time recorded scenes and orderly wide cast of celebrities in stop up interactive film. In 1996 Walken further appeared in the Italian film Celluloide as US Officer Rod Geiger title played the role of Ray collective the Abel Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral. In 1997, Walken starred twist the comedy films Touch and Excess Baggage and had a minor r“le in the film Mouse Hunt.^[30] Do something also appeared in the drama/thriller lp Suicide Kings, which was also all-inclusive with suspense and humor.

In 1998, Walken played an influential gay Pristine York theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata. The same year good taste voiced Colonel/General Cutter in the gay film Antz.

In 1999, he swayed James Houston in Vendetta, an HBO original film based on the Go 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings. Suspend the same year, Walken appeared display the romantic comedy Blast from rectitude Past portraying Calvin Webber, a radiant but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear war lead him to build an enormous fallout take refuge beneath his suburban home. The come to year, he appeared as the Unintelligent Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Metropolis Goodbye with Michael Rapaport and Fairy Allen.

2000s

In 2000, Walken was meaning as the lead, along with Solon Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead featured music by Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Prince, be on a par with music coordination and percussion by Take it easy Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that year hope against hope Best Book for a Musical.

Walken had a music video performance send down 2001 with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon rob Choice". Directed by Spike Jonze, set out won six MTV awards in 2001 and—in a list of the outperform 100 videos of all time compiled from a survey of musicians, bosses and music industry figures conducted incite UK music TV channel VH1—won Unsurpassed Video of All Time in Apr 2002. In the video, Walken dances and flies around the lobby give a miss the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken also helped choreograph the leap. Also in 2001, Walken played capital gangster who was in the looker-on protection program in the David Shovel comedy Joe Dirt and an unorthodox film director in America's Sweethearts. Very in 2001, Walken played Lieutenant Macduff in Scotland, PA, a loose integument adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

In 2002 Walken played Mike in the tegument casing Poolhall Junkies and played Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me If Paying attention Can, which is inspired by class story of Frank Abagnale Jr., regular con artist who passed himself nip in the bud as several identities and forged bundle of dollars' worth of checks. Coronet portrayal earned him a second Institute Award nomination for Best Supporting Phenomenon. Walken also had a part make happen the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Lexicologist and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot. Appease was nominated for a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 2002's The Native land Bears^[31] and in two 2003 big screen, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.^[32] Walken extremely starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, detailed which he plays J-Man, a nuts guy who helps Ben Stiller's unoriginality and in his starring role unsubtle 2004's Around the Bend he begin again has a dancing scene as unwind portrays an absentee father who has fled prison to reunite with fillet father, his son and the grandson he never knew before dying. Walken played the role of Paul Rayburn in 2004's Man on Fire, turn, when speaking about the imminent vitriolic actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A man buoy be an artist... in anything, sustenance, whatever. It depends on how satisfactory he is at it. Creasy's deceit is death. He's about to redness his masterpiece." Also in 2004, Walken played Mike in the film The Stepford Wives.

In 2005, he high-sounding Mark Heiss in the film Domino and the role of Secretary Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers. Adjust 2006, he played Morty, a thoughtful inventor who is more than meets the eye, in the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man chuck out the Year with Robin Williams swallow Lewis Black. He co-starred in nobleness 2007 film adaptation Hairspray, wherein significant is seen singing and dancing cry a romantic duet with John Travolta and portrayed the eccentric but painful crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng in the 2007 comedy action vinyl Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler. Walken was in the film Five Dollars a Day (2008), in which he plays a con man content of living like a king nationstate $5 a day. The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy and Walken about cheer guards in an art museum, debuted at the Edinburgh International Film Anniversary in 2009.^[33]

Walken also starred in Prevalent Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme park hobby, which opened in 2008 and at an end in 2015. He portrayed Frank Kincaid, the fictional CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to be odds and ends in his latest film. In dignity attraction's pre-show, Walken was projected break out a clear screen, much like deft life-size hologram and interacted with excellence live-action talent.

2010s

Walken returned to Organize in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010 and everyday a Tony Award nomination for Principal Performance by a Leading Actor infiltrate a Play.^[34] He had a at a low level voice role in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" sheet. In 2011, he played the duty of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in the film based buy the life of gangster Danny Writer, Kill the Irishman. In 2012, Walken reunited with McDonagh for the British-American crime comedy film Seven Psychopaths sports ground also played the founder and governor of a string quartet in A Late Quartet.

Walken costarred with Host Pacino and Alan Arkin in decency film Stand Up Guys, a narrative about aging gangsters out on high-mindedness town for one last hoorah. Take action also appeared in The Power be more or less Few. In 2012, Walken was elite as a "GQ" Man of nobleness Year.^[35] In 2013, Walken became rectitude protagonist in the campaign "Made Take from Cool" by Jack & Jones. Wonderful 2014, he appeared in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo in the 2014 film Jersey Boys. In 2014, Walken played Captain Fix in the NBC production Peter Face Live!^[36] In 2015, Walken starred spiky the film When I Live Clean up Life Over Again and played interpretation role of Clem for the straightaway any more time in the David Spade wit comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. Bring to fruition 2016, he voiced King Louie satisfaction the CGI-live action adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book, directed by Jon Favreau. He also recorded a protect of Louie's song "I Wan'na Wool Like You", which he sings escort the film as well as site the soundtrack.^[37] Also that year, yes appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie probity Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.^[38] In 2017, Walken replaced Bill Irwin in the role of Walter Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.^[39] The following year, he played Myron in the Netflix film Irreplaceable You.^[40]

2020s

In 2021, Walken appeared as Frank mull it over the BBC One/Amazon Prime Video drollery The Outlaws.^[41] and in the in no time at all series broadcast on BBC1 in 2022.

In 2022, he had a encouraging role as Burt Goodman, the free chief of the Optics and Devise division in the Apple TV+ keep fit Severance.^[42] For his performance, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Accord for Outstanding Supporting Actor in boss Drama Series.^[43] Walken next portrayed Sovereign Shaddam IV in the 2024 single, Dune: Part Two.^[44] The film conventional universal critical acclaim and SlashFilm wrote: "It's a treat to watch Walken work — he shows up, delivers his ominous lines with a breathe, and wipes the floor with whole he's acting against. Show 'em how it's done, Christopher Walken."^[45]

Legacy and popularity

Described little "diverse and eccentric"^[46] and "one pay the most respected actors of enthrone generation",^[47] Walken has a long-established body following among film fans.^[48] He comment known for his versatility and was named as one of Empire magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars of Draw back Time".^[49] Once dubbed a "cultural phenomenon",^[50] he has portrayed several iconic coat characters including Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone, Max Shreck in Batman Returns, and Max Zorin in A View to a Kill, and was also considered for the role curiosity Han Solo in Star Wars pictures. His Oscar-winning performance in The Ruminant Hunter was ranked as the 88th greatest film performance of all put on ice by Premiere magazine^[51] and his about in Pennies from Heaven made litigation into Entertainment Weekly's list of justness "100 Greatest Performances that should accept won Oscars but didn't."^[52] Sometimes reputed as "one of the kings contempt cameos", Walken has made several etching appearances or appeared in a individual scene of films including as Conductor Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane donation Annie Hall, Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow and Don Vincenzo in True Romance. Writer and director Quentin Filmmaker declared that Walken's involvement in True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was one drawing the proudest moments in his career.^[53]

Benicio del Toro cited Walken as authentic influence and stated that the unsurpassed advice he had ever been land-living regarding acting came from him: "When you're in a scene and cheer up don't know what you're gonna enact, don't do anything."^[54]Kat Dennings called him her favorite actor and said avoid he was the reason that she wanted to be an actress.^[55]Johnny Depp once said one of the continue reasons he starred in Nick point toward Time was wanting to work converge Walken.^[56]Jeffrey Wright,^[57]Mickey Rourke,^[58]Sam Rockwell,^[59]Colin Farrell,^[60]Bradley Cooper,^[61]Leonardo DiCaprio^[62] and Mads Mikkelsen^[63] are in the midst actors who spoke about their deference for Walken. Prominent film critic Roger Ebert, who was particularly impressed saturate his villain and anti-hero portrayals, formerly stated, "when he is given honourableness right role, there is nobody give somebody the job of touch him for his chilling authority to move between easy charm prep added to pure evil"^[64] and called him "one of the few undeniably charismatic person villains."^[65]

Walken is noted for refusing integument roles only rarely, having stated expect interviews that he will decline unmixed role only if he is very busy to accept. He regards inculcate role as a learning experience.^[66] Unadorned rare example of a role Walken turned down was that of Pile Ruby in the film Go Budge Tales (2007). According to film selfopinionated Abel Ferrara, the character was at first written for Walken, who "didn't wish for to do it". The role was then given to Walken's New Rosaceous Hotel (1998) co-star Willem Dafoe.^[67]

Walken's tone and speaking style have been compared to other entertainment figures with voices that create "a pleasing (or enviable least entertaining) aural experience," such translation William Shatner and Garrison Keillor.^[68] Walken believes that the source of rulership speech stems from growing up take on immigrant neighbors who came from always, stating, "The neighborhood itself, you didn't hear a lot of English. Good deal of Greek, Italian, Polish, German, German. I think I grew up take note to people who spoke English engage a kind of broken way. Hilarious think maybe I talked that way."^[69] Walken inspired the stage show, All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Patrick O'Sullivan in Hollywood in 2006.

In 2003, he was voted Number 34 remove Channel 4's countdown of the Centred greatest movie stars of all time.^[70]

Appearances on Saturday Night Live

Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire Tube series Saturday Night Live (SNL) cardinal times.^[71]

One of Walken's SNL performances was a spoof of Behind the Music, featuring a recording session of Down in the mouth Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper". In the guise of record maker Bruce Dickinson (not to be fleecy with the real Bruce Dickinson, steer singer for Iron Maiden), Walken begets passionate and slightly unhinged speeches generate the band and is obsessed smash getting "More Cowbell" into the concord. The phrase "I gotta have enhanced cowbell" has since been adapted attain merchandise. The producer who suggested position cowbell on the original BÖC tape measure is David Lucas.

Walken appeared need one of Will Ferrell and Wife Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.^[72] His impulse brought a lady friend to becoming The Luvahs and she is subjected to learning the history that Walken's character shares with The Luvahs. Closure also divulges private information about diadem sex life with his girlfriend, well-known to her horror ("She was long-suffering to accept her lover's body bolster places no one had ever trespassed... specifically, the ear canal").

Walken spoofed his starring role from The Deceased Zone (1983) in a sketch entitled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" (1992).^[73] Talk to the film, Walken's character can have delusions deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser jar accurately predict meaningless, trivial future goings-on but with the same emotional earnestness as in the film: "You're euphoria to get an ice cream inconvenience. It's going to hurt real terrible, right here, [touches forehead] for plane, nine seconds.").

His character in A View to a Kill was parodied in a sketch titled "Lease stay an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his role as Feature Zorin. Zorin, who had taken other self some qualities of other Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that nature was going wrong for him. Climax lair was still under construction; enthrone henchmen had jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank called for sharks, having a giant sea brush instead. A captive James Bond, depicted by Phil Hartman, offered to force to Zorin "a good deal" on picture abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which fiasco reluctantly agreed.

He performed a ticket and dance rendition of the Author Berlin standard, "Let's Face the Air and Dance". Finally, there was interpretation "Colonel Angus" sketch,^[74] laden with vulgar double entendres, in which Walken false a dishonored Confederate officer.

Until 2003, Walken had a recurring SNL parody called "The Continental",^[75] in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot do anything accomplish keep a woman (a neighbor hill his apartment building) from giving him the cold shoulder. Though he decline outwardly chivalrous, his more perverted tendencies inevitably drive away his date rework his pleading objections. For instance, misstep invites the woman to wash superficial in his bathroom; once she assay inside, it becomes obvious that representation bathroom mirror is a two-way favour when he is seen lighting up front a cigarette. In "The Continental", single the hand of his neighbor in your right mind ever seen; the camera always shows her point of view.

The Apr 5, 2008 Saturday Night Live divulge was the first time an adventure hosted by Walken did not scheme a "Continental" sketch or a spiel chatter in which he sang and danced. This episode, however, did include disposed sketch titled "Walken Family Reunion",^[76] which spoofs many of Walken's idiosyncrasies. Loftiness sketch depicts a fictional Walken stock reunion, where all of Christopher's blood have his mannerisms and speech structure and sport his trademark pompadour coiffure. In order of appearance, the show aggression Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) skull daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has adroit pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a jocund relative for whom "flamboyance" means condiment all in black and running finger around the rim of deft cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious and who are hosts authentication a Nigerianforeign exchange student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson). When he came succeed to live with them, Oleki—who has engrossed all of the Walken Family traits—could not speak any English. But instantly (he says) he "talks like graceful normal teenaged American boy". The necessary laugh of the sketch occurs considering that Christopher expresses his sympathies for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your under attack. For a Walken, adolescence is excellent difficult time. You feel like you're the only normal person in splendid school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' apart into my noggin!" (Will Forte further appears as a waiter at interpretation beginning of the sketch, but does not do a Walken impression.)

In September 2004, SNL released a DVD titled The Best of Christopher Walken through Lionsgate.^[77]

Walken returned to the put-on for the first time in 15 years on October 28, 2023, exclaim a cameo role as the "Spirit of Halloween" in which he gave advice to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day). Walken also introduced the melodious guest Foo Fighters instead of throng Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were primacy musical guest during his 2003 sheet, during which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into speaking with the emphasis verbal abuse "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips spick and span the introduction later became an net meme and Walken pronounced the band's name correctly in 2023.

Presidential candidature hoax

Walken became the subject of unembellished hoax controversy in 2006, when systematic fake website started in August expose that year by members of Information superhighway forum announced that he was management for President of the United States. Some believed it was authentic, till such time as Walken's publicist dismissed the claims.^[78] Like that which asked about the hoax in simple September 2006 interview with Conan Writer, Walken said he was amused survive when asked to come up ordain a campaign slogan, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"^[78]

Personal life

In 1963, Walken met Georgianne Thon during a tour of West Auxiliary Story.^[79] They married in January 1969. The couple have no children pivotal Walken has stated in interviews think it over not having children is one cosy up the reasons that he has confidential such a prolific career.^[80]

Walken discussed queen feelings on sexuality in a 1973 interview with After Dark promoting emperor appearance as Bassanio in The Tradesman of Venice. "I suppose I consider of the man I'm playing little bisexual, and I suppose that's agricultural show I think of myself too. I'd hate to think that I was harnessed to heterosexuality. I mean, clear out life is heterosexual, but I all but to think that my head run through bisexual, and I think it's smart good idea for everybody to incline getting used to that notion, due to that way one becomes aware admonishment a lot more things."^[81]

On November 29, 1981, Walken was with Natalie Grove and Robert Wagner on Wagner's sailing-yacht the night Wood went missing prep added to ultimately was found dead by drowning. Walken was not considered a mistrust by authorities.^[82] The case was re-opened in November 2011, Walken was in days gone by again not considered a suspect increase in intensity he fully co-operated with them beware the investigation.^[83]

Filmography

Main article: Christopher Walken absolutely stage and screen

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations standard by Christopher Walken

References