Walter Brooke

Personal Info

Birthday

October 13, 1914

Day of Death

1986-08-20

(71 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, U.S.

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.

Known For

Perry Mason

Bonanza

Dallas

The Six Million Dollar Man

The Twilight Zone

M*A*S*H

The A-Team

Charlie's Angels

Filmography

1985
Jagged Edge
as Duane Bendix
Beyond Reason
as Dr. Grovenor
1983
White Water Rebels
as Leonard Phelps
1981
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Walter Sheehan
Scruples
as Dr. Rutgers
Separate Ways
as Lawrence Stevens
1980
The Nude Bomb
as American Ambassador
Make Me an Offer
as Glenn Harris
1979
Beggarman, Thief
as American Intelligence Agent
Mirror, Mirror
as Dr. Samuel Shaw
North Dallas Forty
as Doctor
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Joseph of Arimathea
1978
The New Adventures of Heidi
as Cousin Tobias
1977
The Pinballs
as Mr. Mason
Black Sunday
as Fowler
Fun with Dick and Jane
as Mr. Weeks
1976
Fury of the Dragon
as Frank P. Scanlon
Street Killing
as The Major
The Big Bus
as Mr. Ames
Time Travelers
as Dr. Stafford
St. Ives
as Mickey
1975
The Other Side of the Mountain
as Dean
Framed
as Sen. Tatum
Stowaway to the Moon
as Whitehead
1974
Harrad Summer
as Sam Grove
The Chadwick Family
as Dr. Simon
Winter Kill
as Ben
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
as Mr. Denver
1973
Executive Action
as Smythe
1972
The Astronaut
as Tom Everett
1971
A Tattered Web
as Lt. Preston
The Return of Count Yorga
as Bill Nelson
The Mephisto Waltz
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Andromeda Strain
as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
Lawman
as Luther Harris
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
as Rector
1970
San Francisco International
as Clifford Foster Evans
The Landlord
as William Enders
Zig Zag
as Adam Mercer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
1969
Marooned
as Network Commentator
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
as Jerry Wolfe
1968
How Sweet It Is!
as Haskell Wax
Yours, Mine and Ours
as Howard Beardsley
Sergeant Ryker
as Col. Arthur Merriam
1967
The Graduate
as Mr. McGuire
1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
1961
Bloodlust!
as Dean Gerrard
1958
The Party Crashers
as Mr. Webster
1955
Conquest of Space
as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
1949
C-Man
as Joe
1942
Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Warwick
In This Our Life
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Murder in the Big House
as Reporter (uncredited)
The Male Animal
as Reporter (uncredited)
Bullet Scars
as Trooper Walter Leary
All Through the Night
as Reporter (uncredited)
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)