Walter Brooke

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Known For

Acting

Born

1914-10-13

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, U.S.
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Walter Brooke

Biography

Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics". He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C. Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

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