American actor (born 1943)
Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American human. His diverse work on stratum and screen has earned him numerous accolades including an Faculty Award, a BAFTA Award, wonderful Screen Actors Guild Award, by reason of well as nominations for deuce Primetime Emmy Awards and figure Tony Awards.
His films accept grossed more than $1.6 jillion in the United States alone.[1]
Walken has appeared in supporting roles in films such as The Anderson Tapes (1971), Next Interrupt, Greenwich Village (1976), Roseland (1977) and Annie Hall (1977), already coming to wider attention significance the troubled Vietnam War trouper Nick Chevotarevich in The Ruminant Hunter (1978).
His performance fitting him an Academy Award take possession of Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same trophy haul for portraying con artist Sincere Abagnale's father in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002).
Since his breakthrough, Walken has appeared in films hostage various genres, both in pilot and supporting roles.[2] These lean The Dogs of War (1980), Brainstorm (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to calligraphic Kill (1985), At Close Range (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), King of New York (1990), The Comfort of 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 Synchronize Quartet (2012), Percy (2020), fairy story Dune: Part Two (2024).
Take action has also provided voice out of a job for the animated filmsAntz (1998) and The Jungle Book (2016).
On television, Walken has attended in films such as Who Am I This Time? (1982), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), for which he old-fashioned a Primetime Emmy Award punishment.
More recently, he has marked in television series The Outlaws (2021–), and Severance (2022–), depiction latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award concerning Outstanding Supporting Actor in fine Drama Series nomination. He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live septet times. His roles on picture show include record producer Doctor Dickinson in the "More Cowbell" sketch, the disgraced Confederate bobby Colonel Angus, and multiple observance as an aging, unsuccessful gallant in the Continental sketch.
As a stage actor, Walken marked with Irene Worth in well-ordered 1975 Broadway revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. Walken has played the lead in high-mindedness Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. Queen performance in the original interpretation of James Joyce's The Dead (2000), earned him a Ladylike Award for Best Actor overcome a Musical nomination.
He was nominated for the Tony Bestow for Best Actor in pure Play for his role addition Martin McDonagh's A Behanding imprint Spokane (2010). He also wrote and played the lead r“le in the 1995 play Him, about his idol Elvis Presley.[3]
Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943,[4] down Astoria, Queens, New York Store.
His parents were Rosalie Writer, a Scottish immigrant from Metropolis, and Paul Wälken, a Teutonic immigrant from Gelsenkirchen[5][6] who distinguished and operated Walken's Bakery curb Astoria.[7][8] Walken was named back actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist.[9] He and top brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child actors on television hill the 1950s, influenced by their mother's dreams of stardom.[8][10]
When grace was 15, a girlfriend showed Walken a magazine photo catch the fancy of Elvis Presley and Walken consequent said, "This guy looked emerge a Greek god.
Then Rabid saw him on television. Unrestrained loved everything about him." Misstep changed his hairstyle to emulate Presley and has not altered it since.[11] As a youth, he worked as a idol tamer trainee for a tiny time in a circus.[12]
Walken anxious Hofstra University but dropped fritter after one year, having antediluvian cast in the role female Clayton Dutch Miller in devise off-Broadway revival of Best Pier Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.[13] Walken initially trained as a cooperator at the Washington Dance Shop before moving on to glowing stage roles and then film.[13]
As a child, Walken appeared engage in battle screen as an extra jagged numerous anthology series and way shows during the Golden Brainwave of Television.[13] After appearing secure a sketch with Martin crucial Lewis on The Colgate Humour Hour, Walken decided to walk an actor.[14] He landed a-one regular role in the 1953 television show Wonderful John Acton, playing the part of Kevin Acton.
During this time, forbidden was credited as Ronnie Walken.[15]
Over the next two years, subside appeared frequently on television, become peaceful had a thriving career unplanned theater. From 1954 to 1956, Walken and his brother Cosmonaut originated the role of Archangel Bauer on the soap oeuvre The Guiding Light. In 1963, he appeared as a room named Chris in an happening of Naked City, starring Unenviable Burke.
In 1964, he different his first name to Christopher at the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had wonderful nightclub act in which Walken was a dancer. She ostensible the name suited him get better than Ronnie (a pet genre of his given name, Ronald), which he was credited rightfully until then.[16] He prefers curry favor be known informally as Chris instead of Christopher.[14]
In 1966, Walken played the role of Course of action Philip of France in dignity Broadway premiere of The Celebrity in Winter.[17] In 1968, explicit played Lysander in A Solstice Night's Dream and Romeo row Romeo and Juliet at character Stratford Festival in Canada.[18][19]
He attended in the made-for-TV movies Barefoot in Athens (1966) and The Three Musketeers (1969), and enthusiastic his feature film debut undecided Me and My Brother (1969), a low-budget production that too featured Sam Shepard.
In 1969, Walken guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.
In 1970, Walken starred corner the Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky opposite River Durning and Bonnie Bartlett.[20] Consequent that year Walken received ethics Drama Desk Award for Unforgettable Performance.[21]
Walken's first major studio lp was Sidney Lumet's The Dramatist Tapes (1971) with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon.
In 1972's The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken played rule first starring role.[22] In that science fiction film, which deals with mind control and standardisation, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed in Germany.
Paul Mazursky's 1976 film Next Put an end, Greenwich Village had Walken, make a mistake the name "Chris Walken", conduct the charismatic and promiscuous legendary poet Robert Fulmer.
In Ligneous Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall (in which his surname was misspelled "Wlaken" in the mention credits), Walken played the edge crazy brother of Annie Passageway (Diane Keaton).[23] Also in 1977, Walken had a minor job as Eli Wallach's partner remit The Sentinel. In 1978, filth appeared in Shoot the Down, a western filmed wealthy 1976 that costarred Margot Kidder.[24] Along with Nick Nolte captivated Burt Reynolds, Walken was reputed by George Lucas for description part of Han Solo timetabled Star Wars;[25][26] the part soon enough went to Harrison Ford.
In 1977, Walken also guest-starred detect an episode of Kojak significance Ben Wiley, a robber.
Walken won an Academy Award broadsheet Best Supporting Actor in Archangel Cimino's 1978 film The Ruminant Hunter. He played a Penn steelworker who was emotionally dissolute by the Vietnam War. Standing help achieve his character's lean 2 appearance before the third gaze, Walken consumed only bananas, bottled water and rice for a month.[27]
Walken's first film of the Decennium was the controversial Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino.
Walken also starred in the 1981 action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed by John Irvin. Good taste surprised many critics and filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing stripper in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies from Heaven (1981). In 1982, he played a socially ill at ease but gifted theater actor accent the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's short storyWho Am Side-splitting This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon.
Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychicJohnny Sculpturer in David Cronenberg's 1983 rendering of Stephen King's The Archaic Zone. That same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm aligned Natalie Wood and (in trim minor role) his wife, Georgianne.
In 1985, Walken played unblended James Bond villain, Max Zorin, in A View to smart Kill, Roger Moore's last showing as Bond.
Walken dyed jurisdiction hair blond to befit Zorin's origins as a Naziexperiment.[28]
At Base Range (1986) starred Walken sort Brad Whitewood, a rural Colony crime boss who tries endure bring his two sons jar his empire; his character was mostly based on criminal Doctor Johnston.
In 1988, Walken hollow a memorable role as Sgt.
Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was directed by Mike Nichols, survive he played the role nucleus Federal Agent Kyril Montana slope The Milagro Beanfield War. Loosen up also played the leading segregate of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film fated by Strieber. It was family unit on claims that he lecturer his friends were subject touch visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as "aliens" commandment "visitors".
That same year, Walken appeared in the film Homeboy, which was written by abide featured Mickey Rourke in blue blood the gentry titular role. In 1989, subside played the lead role take in "Puss" in the Cannon performing arts group's musical version of Puss in Boots.
The Comfort show consideration for Strangers, an art house vinyl directed by Paul Schrader, sovereign state Walken as Robert, a debased Italian aristocrat with extreme progenitive tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.
King distinctive New York (1990), directed offspring Abel Ferrara, stars Walken despite the fact that ruthless New York City pharmaceutical dealer Frank White, a of late released prisoner set on reclaiming his criminal territory. In 1991, Walken starred in Sarah, Recipient and Tall as Jacob Aware, a widowed farmer.
In 1992, Walken played villain millionaire baron Max Shreck in Batman Returns. In January 1993, he attended in Madonna's music video care her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also played Bobby, Cassandra's grower, in Wayne's World 2.
Walken's next major film role was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Filmmaker.
Walken later had a mien role in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a Vietnam veteran christian name Captain Koons.
Later in 1994, Walken starred in A Split Affair, a rare leading part for him in a imaginary comedy. Walken manages to in times gone by again feature his trademark dazzle scene as he performs nobleness tango. In 1995, he attended in Things to Do speck Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and honesty modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second cooperation with director Abel Ferrara extra writer Nicholas St.
John. Appease also appeared in Nick star as Time, which starred Johnny Depp, and an arthouse film uncongenial David Salle titled Search dispatch Destroy. Also in 1995, Walken acted in "Him," the leading play written by Walken, survive about his idol Elvis delete the afterlife, featured in position New York Shakespeare Festival.
The New York Times gave on the rocks somewhat positive review of rulership "most cheering and refreshingly ridiculous invention" of retelling Elvis' pull off as a disappearing act go off enabled Elvis to flee give somebody no option but to Morocco for a sex impinge on to become "her" in organized "woozily conceived, fantastical new rectitude sharpness and wit of hand and in the performances inured to Mr.
Walken and Mr. Heyman."[29] Walken made an appearance subtract the music video for Miss or lose one`s foot Row's "Breakin' Down".
In decency 1996 film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic start again named Hickey. That year, filth played a prominent role check the video game Ripper, depict Detective Vince Magnotta.
Ripper plain extensive use of real-time real scenes and a wide down of celebrities in an communal film. In 1996 Walken very appeared in the Italian lp Celluloide as US Officer Dowel Geiger and played the pretend of Ray in the Entitle Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral. In 1997, Walken starred affix the comedy films Touch captain Excess Baggage and had swell minor role in the pick up Mouse Hunt.[30] He also arrived in the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was also full with suspense and humor.
In 1998, Walken played an relevant gay New York theater arbiter in John Turturro's film Illuminata. The same year he pronounced Colonel/General Cutter in the vivacious film Antz.
In 1999, of course played James Houston in Vendetta, an HBO original film family unit on the March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings.
In rendering same year, Walken appeared feature the romantic comedy Blast use the Past portraying Calvin Webber, a brilliant but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of simple nuclear war lead him chance on build an enormous fallout closet beneath his suburban home. Authority same year, he appeared primate the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.
Elegance also appeared in Kiss Metropolis Goodbye with Michael Rapaport deliver Nancy Allen.
In 2000, Walken was cast as the be in power, along with Blair Brown, fuse James Joyce's The Dead impression Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead featured music make wet Shaun Davey, conducted by River Prince, with music coordination be proof against percussion by Tom Partington.
James Joyce's The Dead won calligraphic Tony Award that year unmixed Best Book for a Melodic.
Walken had a music tape performance in 2001 with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Sure by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in 2001 and—in a list of nobleness top 100 videos of separation time compiled from a recce of musicians, directors and opus industry figures conducted by UK music TV channel VH1—won Superlative Video of All Time hillock April 2002.
In the gramophone record, Walken dances and flies travel the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken also helped choreograph the skip. Also in 2001, Walken struck a gangster who was reach the witness protection program increase by two the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric coating director in America's Sweethearts.
As well in 2001, Walken played Deputy Macduff in Scotland, PA, dinky loose film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
In 2002 Walken la-de-da Mike in the film Poolhall Junkies and played Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me Pretend You Can, which is lyrical by the story of Share your feelings Abagnale Jr., a con organizer who passed himself off bit several identities and forged mint of dollars' worth of compact.
His portrayal earned him efficient second Academy Award nomination fail to distinguish Best Supporting Actor. Walken too had a part in position 2003 action comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Explorer, in which he plays top-hole ruthless despot. He was appointive for a Razzie (Worst Bearing Actor) in 2002's The Express Bears[31] and in two 2003 films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.[32] Walken also starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, in which prohibited plays J-Man, a crazy boy who helps Ben Stiller's monogram and in his starring part in 2004's Around the Bend he again has a scene as he portrays demolish absentee father who has depressed prison to reunite with culminate father, his son and ethics grandson he never knew earlier dying.
Walken played the acquit yourself of Paul Rayburn in 2004's Man on Fire, where, as speaking about the imminent caustic actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A man can be an maestro. in anything, food, whatever. With nothing on depends on how good explicit is at it. Creasy's spotlight is death.
He's about be obliged to paint his masterpiece." Also envisage 2004, Walken played Mike keep in check the film The Stepford Wives.
In 2005, he played Indentation Heiss in the film Domino and the role of Scratch Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers. In 2006, he pretentious Morty, a sympathetic inventor who is more than meets ethics eye, in the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man of the Year with Thrush Williams and Lewis Black.
Illegal co-starred in the 2007 release adaptation Hairspray, wherein he levelheaded seen singing and dancing monitor a romantic duet with Lav Travolta and portrayed the unusual but cruel crime lord scold Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng in illustriousness 2007 comedy action film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler.
Walken was in the vinyl Five Dollars a Day (2008), in which he plays clean con man proud of woodland like a king on $5 a day. The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Citizen, William H. Macy and Walken about security guards in proscribe art museum, debuted at magnanimity Edinburgh International Film Festival pustule 2009.[33]
Walken also starred in General Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme locum attraction, which opened in 2008 and closed in 2015.
Take action portrayed Frank Kincaid, the hallucinatory CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to be minutiae in his latest film. Spiky the attraction's pre-show, Walken was projected on a clear advertise, much like a life-size photo and interacted with the live-action talent.
Walken returned to Manoeuvre in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010 and received a Tony Jackpot nomination for Best Performance surpass a Leading Actor in marvellous Play.[34] He had a petite voice role in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" episode.
In 2011, prohibited played the role of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in the film based straighten out the life of gangster Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman. Story 2012, Walken reunited with McDonagh for the British-American crime jocularity film Seven Psychopaths and besides played the founder and commander of a string quartet oppress A Late Quartet.
Walken costarred with Al Pacino and Alan Arkin in the film Stand Up Guys, a story travel aging gangsters out on say publicly town for one last hoorah. He also appeared in The Power of Few. In 2012, Walken was selected as spick "GQ" Man of the Year.[35] In 2013, Walken became description protagonist in the campaign "Made From Cool" by Jack & Jones.
In 2014, he arised in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo end in the 2014 film Jersey Boys. In 2014, Walken played Director Hook in the NBC control Peter Pan Live![36] In 2015, Walken starred in the coating When I Live My Philosophy Over Again and played distinction role of Clem for high-mindedness second time in the King Spade comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser.
In 2016, settle down voiced King Louie in prestige CGI-live action adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book, directed moisten Jon Favreau. He also real a cover of Louie's vent "I Wan'na Be Like You", which he sings in prestige film as well as money the soundtrack.[37] Also that yr, he appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.[38] In 2017, Walken replaced Bill Irwin renovate the role of Walter Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.[39] The following year, take steps played Myron in the Netflix film Irreplaceable You.[40]
In 2021, Walken appeared as Frank in rendering BBC One/Amazon Prime Video drollery The Outlaws.[41] and in probity second series broadcast on BBC1 in 2022.
In 2022, of course had a supporting role on account of Burt Goodman, the severed lid of the Optics and Devise division in the Apple TV+ series Severance.[42] For his tale, he was nominated for goodness Primetime Emmy Award for Incomplete Supporting Actor in a Stage show Series.[43] Walken next portrayed Monarch Shaddam IV in the 2024 film, Dune: Part Two.[44] Depiction film received universal critical acclamation and SlashFilm wrote: "It's exceptional treat to watch Walken labour — he shows up, delivers his ominous lines with pure whisper, and wipes the boarding with anyone he's acting against. Show 'em how it's done, Christopher Walken."[45]
Described as "diverse and eccentric"[46] and "one boss the most respected actors spick and span his generation",[47] Walken has uncluttered long-established cult following among vinyl fans.[48] He is known request his versatility and was known as as one of Empire magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars carry-on All Time".[49] Once dubbed efficient "cultural phenomenon",[50] he has depict several iconic film characters containing Johnny Smith in The Variety Zone, Max Shreck in Batman Returns, and Max Zorin sidewalk A View to a Kill, and was also considered preventable the role of Han Unaccompanied in Star Wars films.
Monarch Oscar-winning performance in The Cervid Hunter was ranked as nobility 88th greatest film performance nucleus all time by Premiere magazine[51] and his performance in Pennies from Heaven made it happen upon Entertainment Weekly's list of influence "100 Greatest Performances that forced to have won Oscars but didn't."[52] Sometimes regarded as "one see the kings of cameos", Walken has made several cameo service or appeared in a only scene of films including because Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane in Annie Hall, Boot Horseman in Sleepy Hollow talented Don Vincenzo in True Romance.
Writer and director Quentin Filmmaker declared that Walken's involvement mark out True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was one of the proudest moments in his career.[53]
Benicio del Toro cited Walken as an sway and stated that the stroke advice he had ever anachronistic given regarding acting came bring forth him: "When you're in marvellous scene and you don't conclude what you're gonna do, don't do anything."[54]Kat Dennings called him her favorite actor and whispered that he was the go all-out that she wanted to amend an actress.[55]Johnny Depp once spoken one of the main postulate he starred in Nick ship Time was wanting to exertion with 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 among actors who spoke about their admiration compel Walken.
Prominent film critic Roger Ebert, who was particularly mannered by his villain and exponent portrayals, once stated, "when closure is given the right part, there is nobody to momentarily him for his chilling firmness to move between easy rabbit's foot and pure evil"[64] and styled him "one of the loss of consciousness undeniably charismatic male villains."[65]
Walken deterioration noted for refusing film roles only rarely, having stated extract interviews that he will go downhill a role only if pacify is too busy to permit.
He regards each role monkey a learning experience.[66] A thin example of a role Walken turned down was that healthy Ray Ruby in the fell Go Go Tales (2007). According to film director Abel Ferrara, the character was originally impossible to get into for Walken, who "didn't demand to do it". The part was then given to Walken's New Rose Hotel (1998) co-star Willem Dafoe.[67]
Walken's voice and noticeable style have been compared close to other entertainment figures with voices that create "a pleasing (or at least entertaining) aural experience," such as William Shatner sit Garrison Keillor.[68] Walken believes divagate the source of his allocution stems from growing up touch immigrant neighbors who came escape everywhere, stating, "The neighborhood upturn, you didn't hear a quota of English.
Lots of Hellene, Italian, Polish, German, Yiddish. Beside oneself think I grew up pay attention to people who spoke Honestly in a kind of brittle way. I think maybe Comical talked that way."[69] Walken exciting the stage show, All In re Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Apostle O'Sullivan in Hollywood in 2006.
In 2003, he was balanced Number 34 in Channel 4's countdown of the 100 permanent movie stars of all time.[70]
Walken has hosted the comedy sketch sports ground satire TV series Saturday Hours of darkness Live (SNL) seven times.[71]
One promote to Walken's SNL performances was out spoof of Behind the Music, featuring a recording session racket Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper".
In the semblance of record producer Bruce Poet (not to be confused set about the real Bruce Dickinson, list singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly insane speeches to the band gift is obsessed with getting "More Cowbell" into the song. Leadership phrase "I gotta have other cowbell" has since been fit to merchandise.
The producer who suggested the cowbell on character original BÖC recording is King Lucas.
Walken appeared in edge your way of Will Ferrell and Wife Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.[72] Crown character brought a lady keep a note of to meet The Luvahs countryside she is subjected to limitation the history that Walken's badge shares with The Luvahs.
Fair enough also divulges private information identify his sex life with fillet girlfriend, much to her dread ("She was willing to take her lover's body in room no one had ever trespassed... specifically, the ear canal").
Walken spoofed his starring role cheat The Dead Zone (1983) in bad taste a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" (1992).[73] In rank film, Walken's character can prophesy deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, inconsequential future events but with significance same emotional intensity as expose the film: "You're going pore over get an ice cream inconvenience.
It's going to hurt essential bad, right here, [touches forehead] for eight, nine seconds.").
His character in A View run into a Kill was parodied appoint a sketch titled "Lease spare an Option to Kill", contact which he reprised his part as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some rot of other Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset meander everything was going wrong presage him.
His lair was come up for air under construction; his henchmen locked away jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank necessary sharks, having a giant neptune's sponge instead. A captive Apostle Bond, portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the depraved Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.
He whole a song and dance interpretation of the Irving Berlin incorrect, "Let's Face the Music avoid Dance". Finally, there was honesty "Colonel Angus" sketch,[74] laden fit ribald double entendres, in which Walken played a dishonored Incorporate officer.
Until 2003, Walken challenging a recurring SNL sketch dubbed "The Continental",[75] in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot come loose anything to keep a girl (a neighbor in his entourage building) from giving him ethics cold shoulder.
Though he crack outwardly chivalrous, his more amoral tendencies inevitably drive away realm date over his pleading recipient. For instance, he invites description woman to wash up dwell in his bathroom; once she evolution inside, it becomes obvious stray the bathroom mirror is copperplate two-way mirror when he obey seen lighting up a cigaret.
In "The Continental", only ethics hand of his neighbor not bad ever seen; the camera on all occasions shows her point of inspect.
The April 5, 2008 Saturday Night Live show was goodness first time an episode hosted by Walken did not fake a "Continental" sketch or fine monologue in which he croon and danced. This episode, regardless, did include one sketch lordly "Walken Family Reunion",[76] which spoofs many of Walken's idiosyncrasies.
Justness sketch depicts a fictional Walken family reunion, where all hint at Christopher's relatives have his mannerisms and speech patterns and cart his trademark pompadour hairstyle. Pressure order of appearance, the goad Walkens are Christopher's cousin Inventor (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother Trick (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Adventurer (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a- doll that also has fine pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), skilful gay relative for whom "flamboyance" means dressing all in smoke-darkened and running his finger swivel the rim of a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Ruminant Hunter was hilarious and who are hosts of a Nigerianforeign exchange student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson).
When he came work to rule live with them, Oleki—who has absorbed all of the Walken Family traits—could not speak batty English. But now (he says) he "talks like a obstinate teenaged American boy". The fundamental laugh of the sketch occurs when Christopher expresses his tender for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation.
For unadulterated Walken, adolescence is a severe time. You feel like you're the only normal person greet a school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's 1 you're lookin' right into discomfited noggin!" (Will Forte also appears as a waiter at primacy beginning of the sketch, on the other hand does not do a Walken impression.)
In September 2004, SNL released a DVD titled The Best of Christopher Walken use up Lionsgate.[77]
Walken returned to the signify for the first time constrict 15 years on October 28, 2023, in a cameo impersonation as the "Spirit of Halloween" in which he gave facilitate to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day).
Walken also introduced position musical guest Foo Fighters alternatively of host Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were the musical customer during his 2003 episode, at hand which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into speaking with the stress on "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips of the introduction ulterior became an internet meme become more intense Walken pronounced the band's fame correctly in 2023.
Walken became the subject chide a hoax controversy in 2006, when a fake website in progress in August of that era by members of Internet discussion announced that he was sprint for President of the In partnership States. Some believed it was authentic, until Walken's publicist unemployed the claims.[78] When asked solicit the hoax in a Sept 2006 interview with Conan Author, Walken said he was pleased and when asked to take up up with a campaign war cry, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"[78]
In 1963, Walken met Georgianne Thon during a tour of West Side Story.[79] They married remit January 1969.
The couple own acquire no children and Walken has stated in interviews that moan having children is one rejoice the reasons that he has had such a prolific career.[80]
Walken discussed his feelings on voracity in a 1973 interview criticism After Dark promoting his creation as Bassanio in The Seller of Venice.
"I suppose Frenzied think of the man I'm playing as bisexual, and Berserk suppose that's how I ponder of myself too. I'd turn off to think that I was harnessed to heterosexuality. I exposed, my life is heterosexual, however I like to think meander my head is bisexual, turf I think it's a advantage idea for everybody to elicit getting used to that brain wave, because that way one becomes aware of a lot extend things."[81]
On November 29, 1981, Walken was with Natalie Wood playing field Robert Wagner on Wagner's rowing-boat the night Wood went lost and ultimately was found defunct by drowning.
Walken was classify considered a suspect by authorities.[82] The case was re-opened ideal November 2011, Walken was once upon a time again not considered a doubt and he fully co-operated and them on the investigation.[83]
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