Walken through his movies

Me and My Brother his is debut on big screen. He plays the role of the filmmaker.

The Anderson Tapes is Chris' first movie from a major studio. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Sean Connery and Martin Balsam.
Walken's character is widely known as "The Kid", but in the beginning of the flick, we hear a jailer calling him by Kurt Spencer.

His first main role. The Mind Snatchers is a genuine idependent B-movie. In the cast are also Joss Ackland (The Sicilian), Ralph Meeker (Kiss me Deadly) and Ronny Cox (RoboCop).
Walken lives the wild Pvt. James H. Reese.

Credited under "Chris Walken". He plays Robert Fulmer, a natty, self-assured and self-absorbed poet. The movie is written and directed by Paul Mazursky.

In The Sentinel he has a small part as Detective Rizzo, partner of Detective Gatz, played by legendary Eli Wallach.

As the infamous Annie's brother, Duane Hall, Chris has a short participation, but his monologue scene is definitely remarkable:

— "I tell you this because, as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving ... on the road at night... I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The ... flames rising out of the flowing gasoline."

Walken dances, seduces and breaks hearts as the charming gigolo named Russel.

Walken is Mr. Rainbow, the leading role of this obscure western which also brings Margot Kidder (Superman's Lois Lane) as his lover.

At the age of 35 Chris won an Oscar for his supporting acting role in The Deer Hunter as the sensitive Nick.

Journalist Janet Maslin from The New York Times wrote in her 1978 article: "His performance is so utterly persuasive that his own parents, after watching the film and its brutal finale, rushed off to a telephone to make sure their son was still in one piece."

As Eckart, boss of Roy Scheider's character, Walken just appears once in the whole movie. Directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs). A few years later they worked together in Who Am I This Time?, an episode from American Playhouse.

Walken portrays the melancholic and mysterious Nathan D. Champion in the unfairly criticized and rejected Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. It's the second collaboration between the actor and the director.

Soldier Jamie Shannon is hired to make a recon in Zangaro, a fictional african republic ruled by a cruel dictator. Back in America after being caught and tortured he is convinced to organize an overthrow to free that country's people.

As Tom the pimp, he dances, tap dances, jumps and makes a really exciting strip tease. You'd better agree or "I'll cut your face"!

Scientist Michael Brace alongside his partner Lillian Reynolds (Louise Fletcher) have developed a revolutionary device which allows anyone to experience other people's sensations. At the same time he's dealing with a crisis in his marriage with Karen (Natalie Wood). Furthermore some nasty government types are interested in the invention.

Directed by canadian auteur David Cronenberg, Walken is the protagonist Johnny Smith, which suffers a car accident and enters in coma waking up 5 years later. The movie script is based on the book written by Stephen King.

The antagonist Max Zorin, is a high-tech brainy industrialist who loves horses and tries to destroy the Silicon Valley. Nevertheless, his plans are wrecked by James Bond (Roger Moore).

Brad Whitewood is a seductive thief who takes a glamorous life. His son, Jr. (Sean Penn), wants to be like his old man. But not everything is exactly what it seems and sooner or later this guy will realize it.

Don Stevens is an indifferent, unbiased network news reporter who goes to Beirut to cover the lebanese war. Apparently he doesn't take this job too seriously, until he is offered an exclusive interview with a highly placed PLO boss.

Walken as a cowboy and policeman at the same time? Kyril Montana is who it is all about.

"Cast as Sgt. Toomey, Christopher Walken wobbles precariously between madness and stability", said Washington Post.

The story about a fabled feline hero, Puss the cat, is considered by Walken one of his best movies. "Nobody has ever seen this. It's one of my best efforts."

Wesley Pendergrass is a petty crook who pretends to be a kind of entertainer in a small town. In fact has plans to burglarize a jewelry.

Christopher Walken portrays writer Whitley Strieber whose experiences with other kind of extra-terrestrial living is broached in this movie.

— "I must have been away too long... because my feelings are dead. I feel no remorse." (Frank White)

— "My father was a very big man. All his life he wore a black moustache. When it turned grey he used a little brush to keep it black, such as ladies use for their eyes - mascara. Everyone was afraid of him. My mother, my four sisters. At the dining table you could not speak unless spoken to first by my father. But he loved me. I was his favourite." (Robert)

"...a macho action fantasy..." and "...a surprisingly effective and provocative revolutionary epic", said Los Angeles Times.

All-American Murder was released directly on home video. In this suspense thriller about the dark, twisted obsessions of a killer Christopher Walken plays Decker, a homicides detective.

Chris has a brief appearance as the suicidal actor Warren Zell who jumps from the top of a building. That's by far the greatest thing about this movie.

His hairstyle is weirdest than ever for the role of villain Max Schreck, a big shot from Gotham City and another pain in the Batman's ass.

This french production brings Christopher Walken playing Pasco Meisner, a typical arrogant, demonic Chilean-German drug trafficker with vicious attack dogs.

— "I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood, you will tell the angels in heaven that you had never seen pure evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincenzo Coccotti."

Bobby Cahn is a hot music producer who menaces Wayne's relationship with his beloved Cassandra.

Playing womanizer Vanni Corso, "Walken gets a rare chance to romance a woman without having to kill her." (TV Guide)

Captain Koons' monologue is another memorable episode in Walken's career. He has such an amazing talent to uphold this kind of acting. It is always thrilling to watch him.

"He fucked up once too often, so I put a bullet in his eye, two more to be sure. Now, that was somebody I loved. I loved him."
Mr. Smith

Pale as a corpse Walken was cast as rebel angel Gabriel. He's started a war in heaven motivated by his hate of earthly men and won't let no one stop him.

Peina is a retired bloodsucker who gives some advices to the novice Kathleen (Lili Taylor) on how to quit the addiction.

"I'm a criminal; my word don't mean dick!"
The Man with the Plan

Kim Ulander, a businessman whose business is unknown, is asked to finance a project by a would-be Hollywood producer. It happens that in the course of time Kim is turning out to be an unbalanced fella.

Wise guy Bruno Buckingham feels pleased when called by "Mr. Huge" in bed. Director's cut of Wild Side must be seen to do real justice with it.

Hickey is a badass troubleshooter! He has a scar on his face, throaty voice and his best (and only) friend is a machine gun.

US Officer Rod Geiger

As the journalist who interviews Basquiat.

The youngest of three brothers is killed and Ray Tempio, the older one, is also the family's strong man. Unconformed, he'll try to find out the real causes for the brutal happening.

Ray Perkins is Emily's (Alicia Silverstone) uncle and also her bodyguard.

— "Guys, it's my dick. I pick." (Carlo Bartolucci aka Charlie Barret) claiming for his rights as a hostage.

Caeser, the Exterminator

"In God we trust" version of Walken, Bill Hill is looking forward to get into religious business after testifying a miracle by a good looking young monk. Touch flags the second time that Walken works with Paul Schrader.

Gabriel strikes again.

— "They say I like nothing. It's not true. I like chocolate and Caravaggio." (Bevalaqua)

About his part he said: "In America on television on 'Saturday Night Live', I play a character sometimes called 'The Continental' and I felt this job [of Bevalaqua] came quickly and I'm not much of a student of life so I just decided to do a kind of extension of 'The Continental'. He's a bizarre man... this was an opportunity to play someone who was very vulnerable and funny. Of course it was a very good part. Not the kind of part that I get too much."