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| Birth Name(s) : Ronald Walken |
Date of Birth: March 31, 1943 |
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| Profession:
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Influenced at a young age by Jerry Lewis to go into show business, Christopher Walken originally intended to study dancing instead of acting. He landed an off-Broadway musical, "Best Foot Forward" (1963), and abandoned his dancing career.
Today his appearance and roles are the epitomy of evil. He remains one of the best scary-looking bad guys that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up even after you've left the theatre. |
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Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor.
Walken made his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes in 1971. In 1972, Walken played his first starring role in The Mind Snatchers. He plays a sociopathic American soldier stationed in Germany, in a science fiction film which deals with mind control and normalization.
At Close Range starred Walken as Brad Whitewood, a rural Pennsylvania crime boss who tries to bring his two sons into his empire.
Later in 1994, Walken starred in A Business Affair, a rare leading role for him in a romantic comedy. Walken manages to once again feature his trademark dancing scene, as he performs the tango. In 1995, he appeared in Wild Side, The Prophecy, and the modern vampire flick The Addiction (his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John).
In 2000, Walken was cast as the lead, along with Faith Prince, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead was directed by Richard Nelson. The show featured music by Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Prince with music coordination and percussion by Tom Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that year for Best Book for a Musical.
Walken also had a part in the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot.
Natalie Wood's death occurred after an evening onboard a yacht with her husband Robert Wagner and Walken. There were reports Wagner and Walken had an argument about Walken's behavior towards Wood, and she apparently tried to either leave the yacht or to secure a dinghy that was banging against the hull when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard. A woman on shore said she heard cries for help from the water that night, along with voices replying "we're coming." Wagner, Walken, and the pilot of the Splendor said they heard nothing. Los Angeles Medical Examiner Thomas Noguchi revealed that Wood was legally intoxicated when she died and there were marks and bruises on her body, which could have been received as a result of her fall. In Noguchi's memoir, Coroner, he stated that had Wood not been intoxicated, she would likely have realized that her heavy down-filled coat and wool sweater were pulling her underwater, and would have removed them. Noguchi said he found her fingernails still embedded in the rubber boat's side.
Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire TV series Saturday Night Live on six occasions, and has a standing offer from Lorne Michaels to host the show when Walken's schedule permits. One of his more famous SNL performances was a spoof of "Behind the Music" featuring a recording session of Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." In the guise of record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhinged speeches to the band, and is obsessed with getting "more cowbell" into the song.
Walken also spoofed his role from The Dead Zone in a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic", in which the title character had the ability to accurately predict meaningless, trivial future events ("You're going to get an ice cream headache. It's going to hurt real bad...right here for eight, nine seconds.")
He also spoofed his role from A View to a Kill in a sketch titled "Lease with an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his role as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other notable Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that everything was going wrong for him: his lair was still under construction, his henchmen had jump suits that did not fit, and his shark tank lacked sharks, instead having a giant sea sponge. A captive James Bond, portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.
In another appearance, he performed a song and dance rendition of the Irving Berlin standard "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, the "Colonel Angus" sketch, in which Walken played a dishonored Confederate officer, laden with ribald double entendres. Walken's SNL appearances proved so popular that he is one of the few SNL hosts for whom a Best of...SNL DVD is available (an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members).
Walken was the subject of a hoax controversy in October 2006 from a fake website started that August, which announced he was running for President of the United States. Some fans believed it was authentic until Walken's publicist dismissed the claims. When asked about the hoax in a September 2006 interview with Conan O'Brien, Walken was amused by the hoax, and when asked to come up with a campaign slogan, replied "What the Heck?" and "No More Zoos!" |
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