Walter Brooke
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.082 |
| Birthday | 1914-10-13 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Also Known As |
1942
The Male Animal
4.1/9
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten...
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The Male Animal
1955
Conquest of Space
5.5/43
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
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Conquest of Space
1971
The Return of Count Yorga
5.5/43
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of...
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The Return of Count Yorga
1973
Executive Action
6.4/44
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...
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Executive Action
1967
The Graduate
7.637/3395
Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
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The Graduate
1975
Framed
6.6/16
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind...
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Framed
1949
C-Man
5.1/27
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
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C-Man
1970
The Landlord
5.8/45
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...
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The Landlord
1974
The Green Hornet
6.8/34
After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this proper...
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The Green Hornet
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.16/550
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Zig Zag
7.5/7
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
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Zig Zag
1969
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
5/4
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1979
North Dallas Forty
6.7/68
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
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North Dallas Forty
1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
5.8/30
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1972
The Astronaut
5.7/7
An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and go...
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The Astronaut
1958
The Party Crashers
4.7/3
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
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The Party Crashers
1942
Desperate Journey
5.8/25
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German...
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Desperate Journey
1942
Bullet Scars
6.2/9
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also take...
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Bullet Scars
1968
How Sweet It Is!
7.5/11
All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, a...
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How Sweet It Is!
1975
Stowaway to the Moon
5.8/8
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a...
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Stowaway to the Moon
1979
Visions of Christmas Past
0/0
A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late husb...
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Visions of Christmas Past
1971
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
0/0
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he me...
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1961
Bloodlust!
4.2/32
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Ba...
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Bloodlust!
1976
Fury of the Dragon
5.2/25
Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.
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Fury of the Dragon
1977
Fun with Dick and Jane
6.5/68
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Fun with Dick and Jane
1974
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
0/0
Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their...
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Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
1942
All Through the Night
6.957/58
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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All Through the Night
1981
Scruples
0/0
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owne...
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Scruples
1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
4.3/3
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
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In Search of Historic Jesus
1970
San Francisco International
3.7/9
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots...
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San Francisco International
1976
Time Travelers
6.2/13
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago....
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Time Travelers
1980
Make Me an Offer
4.5/2
Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal...
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Make Me an Offer
1981
Advice to the Lovelorn
5/1
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she r...
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Advice to the Lovelorn
1979
Mirror, Mirror
0/1
A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.
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Mirror, Mirror
1976
The Big Bus
5.2/104
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste...
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The Big Bus
1980
The Nude Bomb
5.5/81
When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
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The Nude Bomb
1969
Marooned
5.9/93
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. Af...
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Marooned
1942
Murder in the Big House
6.5/4
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
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Murder in the Big House
1985
Beyond Reason
0/0
An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
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Beyond Reason
1968
Sergeant Ryker
6.5/4
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and...
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Sergeant Ryker
1981
Separate Ways
5/7
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
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Separate Ways
1985
Jagged Edge
6.263/262
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a crimina...
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Jagged Edge
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
6.6/108
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th...
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They Died with Their Boots On
1971
The Mephisto Waltz
6.1/61
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not...
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The Mephisto Waltz
1974
Harrad Summer
0/0
Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
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Harrad Summer
1979
Beggarman, Thief
6/1
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murde...
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Beggarman, Thief
1978
The New Adventures of Heidi
4/2
The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright ligh...
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The New Adventures of Heidi
1968
Yours, Mine and Ours
6.812/139
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
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Yours, Mine and Ours
1974
The Chadwick Family
6/1
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau...
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The Chadwick Family
1971
Lawman
6.6/115
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...
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Lawman
1974
Winter Kill
7.4/5
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and...
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Winter Kill
1971
A Tattered Web
5.7/6
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on...
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A Tattered Web
1971
The Andromeda Strain
7/707
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air For...
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The Andromeda Strain
1977
Black Sunday
6.7/149
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Supe...
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Black Sunday
1942
In This Our Life
6.8/48
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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In This Our Life
1975
The Other Side of the Mountain
6.2/29
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now...
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The Other Side of the Mountain
1977
The Pinballs
0/0
Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.
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The Pinballs
1974
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
6/1
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping...
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The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1976
St. Ives
5.7/48
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
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St. Ives
1983
White Water Rebels
0/0
James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.
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White Water Rebels
1976
Street Killing
0/0
In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a hig...
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