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J.T. Walsh
Birthday: September 28, 1943

Birth Place: San Francisco, California, USA
Height: 6' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for J.T. Walsh. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Considered the very embodiment of a character actor, and one of the best of his kind, J.T. Walsh filled a need for hospital corner-executive types and glowering villains throughout a busy 15-year career. His penetrating, unblinking eyes brought a deadly seriousness to a spectrum of supporting characters, both white and blue collar. James Patrick Walsh — who decided to adopt the initials J.T. after his name was misprinted — was born on September 28, 1943 in San Francisco, then raised in Rhode Island and Europe. He worked in a variety of career fields, from social worker to salesman, during his young adulthood. It wasn't until age 30 that he focused on stage acting, and ten more years that he began popping up regularly on the big screen. His rave reviews for a 1984 stage production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross finally translated into the beginning of a film career. It took Walsh little time to become a character-actor mainstay. Woody Allen cast him in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and a year later he gained notice as the sergeant who puts the clamps on Robin Williams' fast-talking DJ in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). He hooked up with Mamet again on House of Games that same year. The first of several collaborations with friend Kurt Russell came with Tequila Sunrise in 1988. Walsh earned kudos as the prototypical shady studio exec in Christopher Guest's The Big Picture (1989). By this point he had begun appearing in an average of four or five films per year. His portrayals in the early '90s included Annette Bening's sleazy mentor in The Grifters (1990) and another villainous military officer in A Few Good Men (1992). The mid-'90s brought such films as Red Rock West (1993), The Client (1994), The Last Seduction (1994), and Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995), the last of which cast him as Watergate figure John Ehrlichman. In the final few years of his life, Walsh etched some of his most haunting portrayals, including the predatory sex offender who bends the ear of Karl Childers in Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade (1996), reprising his role from the little-seen short Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1993), also written by Thornton. Walsh burned with a menacing intensity as a malicious trucker in the Duel-inspired thriller Breakdown (1997), also starring Russell. Walsh already had Pleasantville and The Negotiator (both 1998) in the can when he suffered a fatal heart attack on February 27, 1998, in San Diego. Both films were dedicated to him, as was Jack Nicholson's Oscar for As Good As It Gets (1997).

Movie Credits
Pleasantville (1998)
[ Paul Walker ][ Tobey Maguire ][ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ Steven Soderbergh ]
The Negotiator (1998)
[ Kevin Spacey ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Paul Giamatti ][ David Morse ][ John Spencer ]
Hidden Agenda (1998)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ Michael Wincott ][ Kevin Dillon ]
Hope (1997)
[ Lee Norris ]
Breakdown (1997)
[ Kurt Russell ][ M.C. Gainey ][ Jack Noseworthy ][ Jack McGee ]
Persons Unknown (1996)
[ Jon Favreau ][ Xander Berkeley ][ Joe Mantegna ]
Ancient Future (1996)
[ Eric Close ]
Inhuman Nature (1996)
[ Eric Close ]
Mercury Rising (1996)
Crime of the Century (1996)
[ Stephen Rea ][ Michael Moriarty ][ David Paymer ]
Sling Blade (1996)
[ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Robert Duvall ][ John Ritter ][ Lucas Black ][ Dwight Yoakam ]
Executive Decision (1996)
[ Kurt Russell ][ Steven Seagal ][ John Leguizamo ][ Paul Reubens ][ Oliver Platt ]
Gang in Blue (1996)
[ Josh Brolin ][ Zach Grenier ]
The Babysitter (1995)
[ Jeremy London ][ Nicky Katt ][ George Segal ]
Outbreak (1995)
[ Kevin Spacey ][ Morgan Freeman ][ Dustin Hoffman ][ Donald Sutherland ][ Patrick Dempsey ]
The Little Death (1995)
[ Philip Baker Hall ][ Dwight Yoakam ]
Sacred Cargo (1995)
[ Martin Sheen ][ Chris Penn ]
Black Day Blue Night (1995)
[ Gil Bellows ]
Nixon (1995)
[ Anthony Hopkins ][ Ed Harris ][ James Woods ][ Oliver Stone ][ John C. McGinley ]
The Low Life (1995)
[ Sean Astin ][ Ron Livingston ][ Rory Cochrane ][ James LeGros ][ Michael Massee ]
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
[ Elvis Presley ][ John Hughes ][ James Remar ][ Dylan McDermott ][ Richard Attenborough ]
Star Struck (1994)
[ Kirk Cameron ][ Brad Armstrong ]
Silent Fall (1994)
[ Richard Dreyfuss ][ John Lithgow ]
The Last Seduction (1994)
[ Bill Pullman ][ Peter Berg ][ Bill Nunn ]
The Client (1994)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ Brad Renfro ]
Blue Chips (1994)
[ Nick Nolte ][ Ed O'Neill ][ Louis Gossett Jr. ][ Shaquille O'Neal ][ William Friedkin ]
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994)
[ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Ron Livingston ]
Charlie's Ghost Story (1994)
[ Anthony Edwards ][ Cheech Marin ]
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
[ Bruce Willis ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Charlie Sheen ][ Emilio Estevez ][ Corey Feldman ]
Sniper (1993)
[ Billy Zane ][ Tom Berenger ]
Partners (1993)
[ Joseph Gordon-Levitt ][ Peter Weller ][ Griffin Dunne ][ Ed Begley Jr. ][ Charles Martin Smith ]
One Little Indian (1993)
Morning Glory (1993)
[ Christopher Reeve ]
Needful Things (1993)
[ Ed Harris ][ Stephen King ][ Max von Sydow ][ Lochlyn Munro ][ Don S. Davis ]
The American Clock (1993)
[ David Strathairn ][ Darren McGavin ][ Yaphet Kotto ][ Loren Dean ][ Wyatt Knight ]
Hoffa (1992)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ Danny DeVito ][ Jon Favreau ][ John C. Reilly ][ David Mamet ]
A Few Good Men (1992)
[ Tom Cruise ][ Jack Nicholson ][ Kiefer Sutherland ][ Kevin Bacon ][ Cuba Gooding Jr. ]
In the Shadow of a Killer (1992)
[ Scott Bakula ][ Miguel Ferrer ][ Robert Forster ][ James Russo ][ Joe Viterelli ]
Red Rock West (1992)
[ Nicolas Cage ][ Dennis Hopper ][ Dwight Yoakam ][ Johnny Cash ]
The Prom (1992)
Contact (1992)
[ Brad Pitt ][ Elias Koteas ]
Iron Maze (1991)
[ Oliver Stone ][ Jeff Fahey ][ Gabriel Damon ]
True Identity (1991)
[ R. Lee Ermey ][ Frank Langella ][ Michael McKean ][ Michael Jai White ][ Austin Pendleton ]
Defenseless (1991)
[ Sam Shepard ][ Martin Campbell ][ Jay O. Sanders ][ John Kapelos ]
Backdraft (1991)
[ Robert De Niro ][ Kurt Russell ][ Donald Sutherland ][ William Baldwin ][ Scott Glenn ]
Narrow Margin (1990)
[ Gene Hackman ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Harris Yulin ]
The Grifters (1990)
[ John Cusack ][ Jeremy Piven ][ Jon Gries ][ Xander Berkeley ][ Stephen Tobolowsky ]
Crazy People (1990)
[ Dudley Moore ][ Paul Reiser ][ David Paymer ][ David Packer ][ John Terlesky ]
Why Me? (1990)
[ Christopher Lloyd ][ Christopher Lambert ][ Michael J. Pollard ][ Lawrence Tierney ]
The Russia House (1990)
[ Sean Connery ][ Roy Scheider ][ John Mahoney ][ James Fox ][ Ian McNeice ]
Misery (1990)
[ Stephen King ][ James Caan ][ Rob Reiner ][ Richard Farnsworth ][ David R. Ellis ]
Dad (1989)
[ Steven Spielberg ][ Kevin Spacey ][ Ethan Hawke ][ James Caan ][ Jack Lemmon ]
The Big Picture (1989)
[ Kevin Bacon ][ John Cleese ][ Michael McKean ][ Elliott Gould ][ Martin Short ]
Wired (1989)
[ Michael Chiklis ][ Alex Rocco ][ Tom Bower ][ Scott Plank ]
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
[ Mel Gibson ][ Kurt Russell ][ Raul Julia ][ Arliss Howard ][ Gabriel Damon ]
Things Change (1988)
[ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ David Mamet ][ Joe Mantegna ][ Don Ameche ]
Windmills of the Gods (1988)
[ Ian McKellen ][ Robert Wagner ][ Michael Moriarty ][ Franco Nero ]
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
[ Robin Williams ][ Forest Whitaker ][ Bruno Kirby ][ Robert Wuhl ][ Noble Willingham ]
House of Games (1987)
[ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ David Mamet ][ Joe Mantegna ]
Tin Men (1987)
[ Danny DeVito ][ Frank Sinatra ][ Elvis Presley ][ Richard Dreyfuss ][ John Mahoney ]
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
[ Woody Allen ][ Michael Caine ][ Julia Louis-Dreyfus ][ John Turturro ][ Max von Sydow ]
Power (1986)
[ Denzel Washington ][ Richard Gere ][ Gene Hackman ][ D.B. Sweeney ][ Sidney Lumet ]
The Beniker Gang (1985)
[ Andrew McCarthy ][ Will Patton ][ Danny Pintauro ][ Anthony Heald ]
Hard Choices (1985)
[ Martin Donovan ][ Spalding Gray ]
Right to Kill? (1985)
[ Jason Bateman ][ Terry O'Quinn ][ Frederic Forrest ][ John M Jackson ][ John M. Jackson ]
The Lock Box (1985)
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
[ John Goodman ][ Kirk Douglas ][ John Schneider ][ Tom Noonan ][ Jay O. Sanders ]
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ Martin Balsam ][ John Hillerman ]

Trivia

  • The film, Outside Ozona (1998), was dedicated to his memory.
  • The Negotiator (1998) was dedicated to the memory of JT
  • Jack Nicholson dedicated his Best Actor Academy Award (for As Good as It Gets (1997)) to Walsh. [1998]
  • Discovered by a director in 1974 and began working in off-broadway shows.
  • Big break in 1984 while working in David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" on broadway.
  • In just over a decade, he appeared in more than two dozen films.
  • Was on holiday at time of death.
  • Graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where he starred as an undergraduate in many college theater productions and was president of Students for a Democratic Society, an organization that grew out of the anti-war movement of the 1960s.
  • Early jobs included Social worker, encyclopedia salesman, junior high school teacher, and reporter.
  • Father of John West.
  • Brother of Christopher Walsh, Patricia Walsh and Mary Walsh.
  • During childhood he attended a Jesuit boarding school in Ireland.
  • He had intended to go by his real initials, J.P. Walsh, but during a casting call, his initials were miscalled as J.T. and he liked it better than J.P.
  • Pleasantville (1998) was dedicated to the memory of JT, as well as some others.
  • Dollar for the Dead (1998) (TV) was dedicated to him.
  • He spoke fluent German.
  • Early jobs also included tending bar at some of Manhattan's best seafood restaurants.
  • Hidden Agenda (1998), the last film he shot, was dedicated to his memory.
  • Before his death, he was hoping to follow the example of Gene Hackman and get away from playing the psychos and cowards he had been typecasted as, playing more complicated and substantial character parts.

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