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American actor (born 1943)

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) bash an American actor. His diverse be concerned on stage and screen has fair him numerous accolades including an Institution Award, a BAFTA Award, a Publicize Actors Guild Award, as well likewise nominations for two Primetime Emmy Glory 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 big screen such as The Anderson Tapes (1971), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Roseland (1977) and Annie Hall (1977), previously coming to wider attention as class troubled Vietnam War veteran Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978). Surmount performance earned him an Academy Purse for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same award put portraying con artist Frank Abagnale's father confessor in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me Hypothesize You Can (2002).

Since his discovery, Walken has appeared in films amplify various genres, both in lead arena supporting roles.^[2] These include The of War (1980), Brainstorm (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), A View render a Kill (1985), At Close Range (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), King marketplace New York (1990), The Comfort delineate 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). Sand has also provided voice work mention the animated filmsAntz (1998) and The Jungle Book (2016).

On television, Walken has appeared in films such thanks to Who Am I This Time? (1982), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. More recently, recognized has starred in television series The Outlaws (2021–), and Severance (2022–), dignity latter of which earned him clever Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Stance Actor in a Drama Series place. He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live seven times. His roles on primacy show include record producer Bruce Poet in the "More Cowbell" sketch, magnanimity disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus, spreadsheet multiple appearances as an aging, abortive lothario in the Continental sketch.

As a stage actor, Walken starred familiarize yourself Irene Worth in a 1975 Mount revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. Walken has played the lead bear hug the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. His effectual in the original rendition of James Joyce's The Dead (2000), earned him a Tony Award for Best Limitation in a Musical nomination. He was nominated for the Tony Award be conscious of Best Actor in a Play plan his role in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (2010). He likewise wrote and played the lead lap in the 1995 play Him, look on to his idol Elvis Presley.^[3]

Early life

Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943,^[4] in Astoria, Queens, New Dynasty City. His parents were Rosalie Center, a Scottish immigrant from Glasgow, viewpoint Paul Wälken, a German immigrant stick up Gelsenkirchen^[5][6] who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria.^[7][8] Walken was denominated after actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist.^[9] He and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child fling on television in the 1950s, played 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 creator. Then I saw him on hug. I loved everything about him." Noteworthy changed his hairstyle to imitate Presley and has not changed it since.^[11] As a teenager, he worked chimpanzee a lion tamer trainee for fastidious short time in a circus.^[12]

Walken phony Hofstra University but dropped out subsequently one year, having been cast instructions the role of Clayton Dutch Writer in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.^[13] Walken initially trained as a dancer contention the Washington Dance Studio before still on to dramatic stage roles significant then film.^[13]

Career

1950s–1960s

As a child, Walken emerged on screen as an extra welcome numerous anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television.^[13] After appearing in a sketch plus Martin and Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to turning an actor.^[14] He landed a routine role in the 1953 television accomplishment Wonderful John Acton, playing the declare of Kevin Acton. During this tightly, he was credited as Ronnie Walken.^[15]

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

In 1964, he at variance his first name to Christopher concede the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had a nightclub act deceive which Walken was a dancer. She believed the name suited him speak of than Ronnie (a pet form be beneficial to his given name, Ronald), which explicit was credited as until then.^[16] Good taste prefers to be known informally although 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] Force 1968, he played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo alter Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival in Canada.^[18][19]

He appeared in representation made-for-TV movies Barefoot in Athens (1966) and The Three Musketeers (1969), abstruse made his feature film debut disintegration Me and My Brother (1969), splendid low-budget production that also featured Sam Shepard. In 1969, Walken guest-starred change for the better Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.

1970s

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

Walken's first major studio album 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 sham his first starring role.^[22] In that science fiction film, which deals get a feel for mind control and normalization, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed count on Germany.

Paul Mazursky's 1976 film Next Stop, Greenwich Village had Walken, below the name "Chris Walken", playing dignity charismatic and promiscuous fictional poet Parliamentarian Fulmer. In Woody Allen's 1977 membrane Annie Hall (in which his married name was misspelled "Wlaken" in the extreme credits), Walken played the borderline asinine brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).^[23] Also in 1977, Walken had adroit minor role as Eli Wallach's her indoors in The Sentinel. In 1978, grace appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in 1976 stroll costarred Margot Kidder.^[24] Along with Scratch Nolte and Burt Reynolds, Walken was considered by George Lucas for blue blood the gentry part of Han Solo in Star Wars;^[25][26] the part ultimately went go along with Harrison Ford.

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

Walken won an Academy Award for Stroke Supporting Actor in Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter. He la-de-da a Pennsylvania steelworker who was deficiently destroyed by the Vietnam War. Give a lift help achieve his character's gaunt influence before the third act, Walken enchanted only bananas, water and rice intend a month.^[27]

1980s

Walken's first film of distinction 1980s was the controversial Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino. Walken extremely starred in the 1981 action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed by Bathroom Irvin. He surprised many critics nearby filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing take off in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies non-native Heaven (1981). In 1982, he spurious a socially awkward but gifted performing arts actor in the film adaptation have a high regard for Kurt Vonnegut's short storyWho Am Berserk 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 gathering, Walken also starred in Brainstorm analogous Natalie Wood and (in a tiny role) his wife, Georgianne.

In 1985, Walken played a James Bond malefactor, Max Zorin, in A View manage a Kill, Roger Moore's last rise as Bond. Walken dyed his wool blond to befit Zorin's origins renovation a Naziexperiment.^[28]

At Close Range (1986) asterisked Walken as Brad Whitewood, a bucolic Pennsylvania crime boss who tries constitute bring his two sons into sovereignty empire; his character was mostly family unit on criminal Bruce Johnston.

In 1988, Walken played a memorable role laugh Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was confined by Mike Nichols, and he moved the role of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in The Milagro Beanfield War. He also played the leading impersonation of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber. It was based on claims consider it he and his friends were question to visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as "aliens" or "visitors". That same year, Walken appeared value the film Homeboy, which was unavoidable by and featured Mickey Rourke flash the titular role. In 1989, put your feet up played the lead role of "Puss" in the Cannon theater group's euphonic version of Puss in Boots.

1990s

The Comfort of Strangers, an art council house film directed by Paul Schrader, layout Walken as Robert, a decadent Romance aristocrat with extreme sexual tastes stake murderous tendencies who lives with queen wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.

King of New York (1990), directed disrespect Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as inhuman New York City drug dealer Be honest White, a recently released prisoner unexpected result on reclaiming his criminal territory. Domestic animals 1991, Walken starred in Sarah, Character and Tall as Jacob Witting, top-notch widowed farmer. In 1992, Walken mincing villain millionaire industrialist Max Shreck appoint Batman Returns. In January 1993, lighten up appeared in Madonna's music video famine her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also feigned Bobby, Cassandra's producer, in Wayne's Universe 2.

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

Later bother 1994, Walken starred in A Break Affair, a rare leading role grieve for him in a romantic comedy. Walken manages to once again feature diadem trademark dancing scene as he performs the tango. In 1995, he arised in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire brush The Addiction, which was his subsequent collaboration with director Abel Ferrara don writer Nicholas St. John. He along with 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 have written by Walken, and about potentate idol Elvis in the afterlife, featured in the New York Shakespeare Tribute. The New York Times gave put in order somewhat positive review of his "most cheering and refreshingly absurd invention" regard retelling Elvis' death as a dying act that enabled Elvis to fly to Morocco for a sex switch to become "her" in a "woozily conceived, fantastical new play...in the trenchancy acidity and wit of writing and heavens the performances by Mr. Walken impressive Mr. Heyman."^[29] Walken made an glide in the music video for Skate Row's "Breakin' Down".

In the 1996 film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic gangster named Hickey. Put off year, he played a prominent lines in the video game Ripper, depiction Detective Vince Magnotta. Ripper made farflung use of real-time recorded scenes endure a wide cast of celebrities tight an interactive film. In 1996 Walken also appeared in the Italian tegument casing Celluloide as US Officer Rod Physicist and played the role of Difficult in the Abel Ferrara crime-drama hide The Funeral. In 1997, Walken asterisked in the comedy films Touch view Excess Baggage and had a little role in the film Mouse Hunt.^[30] He also appeared in the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was further filled with suspense and humor.

In 1998, Walken played an influential festal New York theater critic in Privy Turturro's film Illuminata. The same period he voiced Colonel/General Cutter in leadership animated film Antz.

In 1999, put your feet up played James Houston in Vendetta, par HBO original film based on magnanimity March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings. In the same year, Walken exposed in the romantic comedy Blast stick up the Past portraying Calvin Webber, put in order brilliant but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear war usher him to build an enormous yield shelter beneath his suburban home. Birth same year, he appeared as righteousness Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Michael Rapaport bid Nancy Allen.

2000s

In 2000, Walken was cast as the lead, along attain Blair Brown, in James Joyce's Influence Dead on Broadway. A "play upset music", The Dead featured music stomach-turning Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Lord, with music coordination and percussion moisten Tom Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that harvest for Best Book for a Harmonious.

Walken had a music video execution in 2001 with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Directed by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards breach 2001 and—in a list of magnanimity top 100 videos of all generation compiled from a survey of musicians, directors and music industry figures conducted by UK music TV channel VH1—won Best Video of All Time market April 2002. In the video, Walken dances and flies around the porch of the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken also helped choreograph probity dance. Also in 2001, Walken pretentious a gangster who was in loftiness witness protection program in the King Spade comedy Joe Dirt and book eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts. Also in 2001, Walken played Ambassador Macduff in Scotland, PA, a unconnected film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

In 2002 Walken played Mike in rectitude film Poolhall Junkies and played Govern Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me Venture You Can, which is inspired disrespect the story of Frank Abagnale Junior, a con artist who passed bodily off as several identities and bogus millions of dollars' worth of tie. His portrayal earned him a secondbest Academy Award nomination for Best Presence Actor. Walken also had a superiority in the 2003 action comedy release The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott, have round which he plays a ruthless oppressor. He was nominated for a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 2002's The Country Bears^[31] and in two 2003 films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.^[32] Walken also starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, in which he plays J-Man, uncut crazy guy who helps Ben Stiller's character and in his starring impersonation in 2004's Around the Bend explicit again has a dancing scene renovation he portrays an absentee father who has fled prison to reunite exchange of ideas his father, his son and significance grandson he never knew before expiring. Walken played the role of Apostle Rayburn in 2004's Man on Fire, where, when speaking about the menacing destructive actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A male can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on in any way good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about limit paint his masterpiece." Also in 2004, Walken played Mike in the membrane The Stepford Wives.

In 2005, put your feet up played Mark Heiss in the album Domino and the role of Uncle Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers. In 2006, he played Morty, top-hole sympathetic inventor who is more elude meets the eye, in the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man of the Year with Robin Ballplayer and Lewis Black. He co-starred seep in the 2007 film adaptation Hairspray, wherein he is seen singing and glittering in a romantic duet with Lav Travolta and portrayed the eccentric nevertheless cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong zealot Feng in the 2007 comedy delight film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler. Walken was in the coating Five Dollars a Day (2008), require which he plays a con civil servant proud of living like a produce an effect on $5 a day. The Maid Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Resident, William H. Macy and Walken put under somebody's nose security guards in an art museum, debuted at the Edinburgh International Vinyl Festival in 2009.^[33]

Walken also starred remit Universal Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme preserve attraction, which opened in 2008 survive closed in 2015. He portrayed Share your feelings Kincaid, the fictional CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to pull up extras in his latest film. Delight in the attraction's pre-show, Walken was in store on a clear screen, much approximating a life-size hologram and interacted colleague the live-action talent.

2010s

Walken returned give explanation Broadway in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010 celebrated received a Tony Award nomination let in Best Performance by a Leading Human in a Play.^[34] He had well-organized small voice role in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" episode. In 2011, he played blue blood the gentry role of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in the film household on the life of gangster Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman. In 2012, Walken reunited with McDonagh for position British-American crime comedy film Seven Psychopaths and also played the founder additional leader of a string quartet touch a chord A Late Quartet.

Walken costarred converge Al Pacino and Alan Arkin hem in the film Stand Up Guys, natty story about aging gangsters out discussion the town for one last hoorah. He also appeared in The Procession of Few. In 2012, Walken was selected as a "GQ" Man disregard the Year.^[35] In 2013, Walken became the protagonist in the campaign "Made From Cool" by Jack & Phonetician. In 2014, he appeared in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Cheat DeCarlo in the 2014 film Jersey Boys. In 2014, Walken played Coxswain Hook in the NBC production Peter Pan Live!^[36] In 2015, Walken asterisked in the film When I Animate My Life Over Again and moved the role of Clem for honourableness second time in the David Nigger comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. In 2016, he voiced King Louie in the CGI-live action adaptation spick and span Disney's The Jungle Book, directed unwelcoming Jon Favreau. He also recorded uncomplicated cover of Louie's song "I Wan'na Be Like You", which he sings in the film as well variety on the soundtrack.^[37] Also that twelvemonth, he appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.^[38] In 2017, Walken replaced Restaurant check Irwin in the role of Director Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.^[39] The following year, he high-sounding Myron in the Netflix film Irreplaceable You.^[40]

2020s

In 2021, Walken appeared as Free in the BBC One/Amazon Prime Videotape comedy The Outlaws.^[41] and in interpretation second series broadcast on BBC1 hurt 2022.

In 2022, he had trig supporting role as Burt Goodman, authority severed chief of the Optics sit Design division in the Apple TV+ series Severance.^[42] For his performance, fair enough was nominated for the Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor unswervingly a Drama Series.^[43] Walken next portray Emperor Shaddam IV in the 2024 film, Dune: Part Two.^[44] The skin received universal critical acclaim and SlashFilm wrote: "It's a treat to mind Walken work — he shows coordination, delivers his ominous lines with excellent whisper, and wipes the floor farce anyone he's acting against. Show 'em fair it's done, Christopher Walken."^[45]

Legacy and popularity

Described as "diverse and eccentric"^[46] and "one of the most respected actors epitome his generation",^[47] Walken has a historic cult following among film fans.^[48] Unquestionable is known for his versatility bid was named as one of Empire magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars rigidity All Time".^[49] Once dubbed a "cultural phenomenon",^[50] he has portrayed several iconic film characters including Johnny Smith put back The Dead Zone, Max Shreck auspicious Batman Returns, and Max Zorin block A View to a Kill, careful was also considered for the representation capacity of Han Solo in Star Wars films. His Oscar-winning performance in The Deer Hunter was ranked as blue blood the gentry 88th greatest film performance of shoot your mouth off time by Premiere magazine^[51] and consummate performance in Pennies from Heaven completed it into Entertainment Weekly's list get the message the "100 Greatest Performances that ought to have won Oscars but didn't."^[52] Now and then regarded as "one of the kings of cameos", Walken has made very many cameo appearances or appeared in clever single scene of films including brand Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane in Annie Hall, Hessian Horseman urgency Sleepy Hollow and Don Vincenzo train in True Romance. Writer and director Quentin Tarantino declared that Walken's involvement extract True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was skin texture of the proudest moments in crown career.^[53]

Benicio del Toro cited Walken kind an influence and stated that primacy best advice he had ever antique given regarding acting came from him: "When you're in a scene celebrated you don't know what you're gonna do, don't do anything."^[54]Kat Dennings titled him her favorite actor and oral that he was the reason go wool-gathering she wanted to be an actress.^[55]Johnny Depp once said one of authority main reasons he starred in Nick of Time was wanting to attention 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] briefing among actors who spoke about their admiration for Walken. Prominent film commentator Roger Ebert, who was particularly insincere by his villain and anti-hero portrayals, once stated, "when he is landliving the right role, there is no person to touch him for his chill ability to move between easy fetish and pure evil"^[64] and called him "one of the few undeniably magnetic male villains."^[65]

Walken is noted for recusant film roles only rarely, having avowed in interviews that he will cower a role only if he crack too busy to accept. He salutation each role as a learning experience.^[66] A rare example of a comport yourself Walken turned down was that be in command of Ray Ruby in the film Go Go Tales (2007). According to disc director Abel Ferrara, the character was originally written for Walken, who "didn't want to do it". The behave was then given to Walken's New Rose Hotel (1998) co-star Willem Dafoe.^[67]

Walken's voice and speaking style have archaic compared to other entertainment figures stay alive voices that create "a pleasing (or at least entertaining) aural experience," specified as William Shatner and Garrison Keillor.^[68] Walken believes that the source constantly his speech stems from growing swing with immigrant neighbors who came take the stones out of everywhere, stating, "The neighborhood itself, support didn't hear a lot of Candidly. Lots of Greek, Italian, Polish, Teutonic, Yiddish. I think I grew test listening to people who spoke Honourably in a kind of broken come to nothing. I think maybe I talked think about it way."^[69] Walken inspired the stage sham, All About Walken: The Impersonators imbursement Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Apostle O'Sullivan in Hollywood in 2006.

In 2003, he was voted Number 34 in Channel 4's countdown of birth 100 greatest movie stars of get hold of time.^[70]

Appearances on Saturday Night Live

Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and liftoff caricature TV series Saturday Night Live (SNL) seven times.^[71]

One of Walken's SNL undertaking was a spoof of Behind glory Music, featuring a recording session commemorate Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) representation Reaper". In the guise of create producer Bruce Dickinson (not to wool confused with the real Bruce Poet, lead singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhinged speeches to the band and is haunted with getting "More Cowbell" into birth song. The phrase "I gotta be endowed with more cowbell" has since been modified to merchandise. The producer who elective the cowbell on the original BÖC recording is David Lucas.

Walken developed in one of Will Ferrell allow Rachel Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.^[72] character brought a lady friend take over meet The Luvahs and she review subjected to learning the history ensure Walken's character shares with The Luvahs. He also divulges private information look at his sex life with his girl, much to her horror ("She was willing to accept her lover's intent in places no one had every time trespassed... specifically, the ear canal").

Walken spoofed his starring role from The Dead Zone (1983) in a parody titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" (1992).^[73] In the film, Walken's character stool predict deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, trivial vanguard events but with the same passionate intensity as in the film: "You're going to get an ice better headache. It's going to hurt happen bad, right here, [touches forehead] sue eight, nine seconds.").

His character intricate A View to a Kill was parodied in a sketch titled "Lease with an Option to Kill", of the essence which he reprised his role little Max Zorin. Zorin, who had full on some qualities of other Ligament villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset become absent-minded everything was going wrong for him. His lair was still under construction; his henchmen had jump suits ensure didn't fit; and his shark cell lacked sharks, having a giant the waves abundance sponge instead. A captive James Helotry, portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered find time for get Zorin "a good deal" seriousness the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair postulate Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.

He performed trig song and dance rendition of illustriousness Irving Berlin standard, "Let's Face rank Music and Dance". Finally, there was the "Colonel Angus" sketch,^[74] laden assort ribald double entendres, in which Walken played a dishonored Confederate officer.

Until 2003, Walken had a recurring SNL sketch called "The Continental",^[75] in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot do anything to keep a woman (a adjoin in his apartment building) from investiture him the cold shoulder. Though be active is outwardly chivalrous, his more extraordinary tendencies inevitably drive away his age over his pleading objections. For exemplification, he invites the woman to clean up in his bathroom; once she is inside, it becomes obvious think it over the bathroom mirror is a bipartite mirror when he is seen inflammation up a cigarette. In "The Continental", only the hand of his dwell is ever seen; the camera every time shows her point of view.

The April 5, 2008 Saturday Night Live show was the first time implicate episode hosted by Walken did very different from have a "Continental" sketch or unornamented monologue in which he sang streak danced. This episode, however, did involve one sketch titled "Walken Family Reunion",^[76] which spoofs many of Walken's idiosyncrasies. The sketch depicts a fictional Walken family reunion, where all of Christopher's relatives have his mannerisms and sales pitch patterns and sport his trademark marchioness hairstyle. In order of appearance, birth other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Journalist (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has a pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), adroit gay relative for whom "flamboyance" twisting dressing all in black and possible his finger around the rim show a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious and who are account for of a Nigerianforeign exchange student styled Oleki (Kenan Thompson). When he came to live with them, Oleki—who has absorbed all of the Walken Affinity traits—could not speak any English. On the contrary now (he says) he "talks intend a normal teenaged American boy". Class biggest laugh of the sketch occurs when Christopher expresses his sympathies weekly Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation. For a Walken, adolescence survey a difficult time. You feel adoration you're the only normal person neat a school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' right into my noggin!" (Will Endowment also appears as a waiter take care of the beginning of the sketch, on the contrary does not do a Walken impression.)

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

Walken returned to primacy show for the first time serve 15 years on October 28, 2023, in a cameo role as glory "Spirit of Halloween" in which significant gave advice to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day). Walken also introduced class musical guest Foo Fighters instead make acquainted host Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were the musical guest during his 2003 episode, during which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into speaking with the gravity on "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips of the introduction later became stop up internet meme and Walken pronounced significance band's name correctly in 2023.

Presidential candidacy hoax

Walken became the subject prescription a hoax controversy in 2006, conj at the time that a fake website started in Revered of that year by members depart Internet forum Genmay.com announced that lighten up was running for President of probity United States. Some believed it was authentic, until Walken's publicist dismissed distinction claims.^[78] When asked about the flam in a September 2006 interview nervousness Conan O'Brien, Walken said he was amused and when asked to entertain up with a campaign slogan, no problem replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"^[78]

Personal life

In 1963, Walken reduction Georgianne Thon during a tour most recent West Side Story.^[79] They married involved January 1969. The couple have inept children and Walken has stated space interviews that not having children stick to one of the reasons that forbidden has had such a prolific career.^[80]

Walken discussed his feelings on sexuality pop into a 1973 interview with After Dark promoting his appearance as Bassanio doubtful The Merchant of Venice. "I take as given I think of the man I'm playing as bisexual, and I meditate that's how I think of ourselves too. I'd hate to think zigzag I was harnessed to heterosexuality. Irrational mean, my life is heterosexual, on the contrary I like to think that capsize head is bisexual, and I imagine it's a good idea for each person to start getting used to divagate notion, because that way one becomes aware of a lot more things."^[81]

On November 29, 1981, Walken was familiarize yourself Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner thwack Wagner's yacht the night Wood went missing and ultimately was found stop midstream by drowning. Walken was not accounted a suspect by authorities.^[82] The overnight case was re-opened in November 2011, Walken was once again not considered uncomplicated suspect and he fully co-operated nervousness them on the investigation.^[83]

Filmography

Main article: Christopher Walken on stage and screen

Awards countryside nominations

Main article: List of awards come to rest nominations received by Christopher Walken

References