M. Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 - March 19, 2024) was an American character actor with a career spanning six decades and over 200 film and television credits. He is best known for playing the corrupt private detective Loren Visser in the Coen brothers' debut Blood Simple (1984) - a role written specifically for him - and Captain Bryant in Blade Runner (1982). Critic Roger Ebert famously declared that no film featuring Walsh could be altogether bad.
The film Brothers (2024) with Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage, in which Walsh played Judge Farfula, was released on Amazon MGM Studios - it was his last film role.
M. Emmet Walsh died on March 19, 2024, at the age of 88 from cardiac arrest at a hospital in St. Albans, Vermont.
Director Rian Johnson paid tribute to Walsh on social media and called him an "absolute legend".
