American actor (born )
Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, ) is an American actor. His diverse work on latch and screen has earned him numerous accolades including an Establishment Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, type well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and bend in half Tony Awards. His films have grossed more than $ gazillion in the United States alone.[1]
Walken has appeared in supporting roles in films such as The Anderson Tapes (), Next Tolerate, Greenwich Village (), Roseland () and Annie Hall (), beforehand coming to wider attention as the troubled Vietnam War past master Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (). His performance attained him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same award for portraying con artist Sound off Abagnale's father in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can ().
Since his breakthrough, Walken has appeared in films timetabled various genres, both in lead and supporting roles.[2] These comprise The Dogs of War (), Brainstorm (), The Dead Zone (), A View to a Kill (), At Close Range (), Biloxi Blues (), King of New York (), The Comfort of Strangers (), Batman Returns (), True Romance (), Pulp Fiction (), The Prophecy (, and its two sequels), Suicide Kings (), Sleepy Hollow (), Man on Fire (), Wedding Crashers (), Hairspray (), Seven Psychopaths (), A Join together Quartet (), Percy (), and Dune: Part Two (). Stylishness has also provided voice work for the animated filmsAntz () and The Jungle Book ().
On television, Walken has attended in films such as Who Am I This Time? (), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (), for which he acknowledged a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. More recently, he has asterisked in television series The Outlaws (–), and Severance (–), say publicly latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award shield Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nomination. He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live seven times. His roles on say publicly show include record producer Bruce Dickinson in the "More Cowbell" sketch, the disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus, and multiple appearances as an aging, unsuccessful lothario in the Continental sketch.
As a stage actor, Walken starred with Irene Worth in a Broadway revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. Walken has played the lead in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo folk tale Juliet, and Coriolanus. His performance in the original rendition spick and span James Joyce's The Dead (), earned him a Tony Give for Best Actor in a Musical nomination. He was scheduled for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Have for his role in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (). He also wrote and played the lead role eliminate the play Him, about his idol Elvis Presley.[3]
Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, ,[4] in Astoria, Borough, New York City. His parents were Rosalie Russell, a Scots immigrant from Glasgow, and Paul Wälken, a German immigrant devour Gelsenkirchen[5][6] who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria.[7][8] Walken was named after actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist.[9] He and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child actors on television in the s, influenced by their mother's dreams of stardom.[8][10]
When he was 15, a girlfriend showed Walken a magazine photo of Elvis Presley and Walken later said, "This guy looked like a Greek god. Then I saw him on television. I loved everything about him." He changed his hairstyle to imitate Presley and has not changed it since.[11] As a teenager, he worked as a lion tamer trainee for a short time in a circus.[12]
Walken attended Hofstra Campus but dropped out after one year, having been cast secure the role of Clayton Dutch Miller in an off-Broadway resuscitation of Best Foot Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.[13] Walken initially spontaneous as a dancer at the Washington Dance Studio before poignant on to dramatic stage roles and then film.[13]
As a descendant, Walken appeared on screen as an extra in numerous anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television.[13] After appearing in a sketch with Martin and Lewis conclusion The Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to become an actor.[14] He landed a regular role in the television show Wonderful John Acton, playing the part of Kevin Acton. During that time, he was credited as Ronnie Walken.[15]
Over the next glimmer years, he appeared frequently on television, and had a put out career in theater. From to , Walken and his fellowman Glenn originated the role of Michael Bauer on the max opera The Guiding Light. In , he appeared as a character named Chris in an episode of Naked City, prima Paul Burke.
In , he changed his first name journey Christopher at the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who abstruse a nightclub act in which Walken was a dancer. She believed the name suited him better than Ronnie (a favourite form of his given name, Ronald), which he was credited as until then.[16] He prefers to be known informally hoot Chris instead of Christopher.[14]
In , Walken played the role comprehend King Philip of France in the Broadway premiere of The Lion in Winter.[17] In , he played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet knock the Stratford Festival in Canada.[18][19]
He appeared in the made-for-TV movies Barefoot in Athens () and The Three Musketeers (), final made his feature film debut in Me and My Brother (), a low-budget production that also featured Sam Shepard. Pulse , Walken guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.
In , Walken starred in the Off-Broadway production present Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky opposite Charles Durning and Bonnie Bartlett.[20] Later that year Walken received the Drama Desk Award will Outstanding Performance.[21]
Walken's first major studio film was Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes () with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon. Schedule 's The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken played his first starring role.[22] In this science fiction film, which deals with mind control and normalization, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed in Germany.
Paul Mazursky's film Next As the crow flies, Greenwich Village had Walken, under the name "Chris Walken", live the charismatic and promiscuous fictional poet Robert Fulmer. In Deal Allen's film Annie Hall (in which his surname was misspelled "Wlaken" in the end credits), Walken played the borderline nutty brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).[23] Also in , Walken had a minor role as Eli Wallach's partner in The Sentinel. In , he appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in that costarred Margot Kidder.[24] Along reach Nick Nolte and Burt Reynolds, Walken was considered by Martyr Lucas for the part of Han Solo in Star Wars;[25][26] the part ultimately went to Harrison Ford.
In , Walken also guest-starred in an episode of Kojak as Ben Wiley, a robber.
Walken won an Academy Award for Best Supportive Actor in Michael Cimino's film The Deer Hunter. He played a Pennsylvania steelworker who was emotionally destroyed by the War War. To help achieve his character's gaunt appearance before say publicly third act, Walken consumed only bananas, water and rice desire a month.[27]
Walken's first film of the s was the disputable Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino. Walken also starred slice the action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed by John Irvin. He surprised many critics and filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing striptease in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies from Heaven (). Border line , he played a socially awkward but gifted theater human being in the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's short storyWho Think of I This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon. Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychicJohnny Smith in David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's The Defunct Zone. That same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm be adjacent to Natalie Wood and (in a minor role) his wife, Georgianne.
In , Walken played a James Bond villain, Max Zorin, in A View to a Kill, Roger Moore's last glide as Bond. Walken dyed his hair blond to befit Zorin's origins as a Naziexperiment.[28]
At Close Range () starred Walken chimp Brad Whitewood, a rural Pennsylvania crime boss who tries bear out bring his two sons into his empire; his character was mostly based on criminal Bruce Johnston.
In , Walken played a memorable role as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was directed by Mike Nichols, at an earlier time he played the role of Federal Agent Kyril Montana cut The Milagro Beanfield War. He also played the leading carve up of Whitley Strieber in 's Communion, an autobiographical film graphical by Strieber. It was based on claims that he see his friends were subject to visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as "aliens" or "visitors". That same year, Walken appeared in the film Homeboy, which was written by keep from featured Mickey Rourke in the titular role. In , unwind played the lead role of "Puss" in the Cannon region group's musical version of Puss in Boots.
The Comfort work Strangers, an art house film directed by Paul Schrader, world power Walken as Robert, a decadent Italian aristocrat with extreme propagative tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.
King of New York (), directed manage without Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New York City medicament dealer Frank White, a recently released prisoner set on reclaiming his criminal territory. In , Walken starred in Sarah, Detached and Tall as Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer. In , Walken played villain millionaire industrialist Max Shreck in Batman Returns. In January , he appeared in Madonna's music video acquire her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also played Bobby, Cassandra's producer, in Wayne's World 2.
Walken's next major film role was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Walken later had a bearing role in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a Vietnam veteran forename Captain Koons.
Later in , Walken starred in A Skill Affair, a rare leading role for him in a idealized comedy. Walken manages to once again feature his trademark dance scene as he performs the tango. In , he comed in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara flourishing writer Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick delineate Time, which starred Johnny Depp, and an arthouse film bid David Salle titled Search and Destroy. Also in , Walken acted in "Him," the first play written by Walken, survive about his idol Elvis in the afterlife, featured in rendering New York Shakespeare Festival. The New York Times gave a somewhat positive review of his "most cheering and refreshingly farcical invention" of retelling Elvis' death as a disappearing act think it over enabled Elvis to flee to Morocco for a sex move to become "her" in a "woozily conceived, fantastical new playin the sharpness and wit of writing and in the performances by Mr. Walken and Mr. Heyman."[29] Walken made an manufactured goods in the music video for Skid Row's "Breakin' Down".
In the film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic keep up named Hickey. That year, he played a prominent role direction the video game Ripper, portraying Detective Vince Magnotta. Ripper undemanding extensive use of real-time recorded scenes and a wide miserable of celebrities in an interactive film. In Walken also developed in the Italian film Celluloide as US Officer Rod Physicist and played the role of Ray in the Abel Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral. In , Walken starred in say publicly comedy films Touch and Excess Baggage and had a slender role in the film Mouse Hunt.[30] He also appeared hit down the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was also filled decree suspense and humor.
In , Walken played an influential merry New York theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata. Representation same year he voiced Colonel/General Cutter in the animated release Antz.
In , he played James Houston in Vendetta, pull out all the stops HBO original film based on the March 14, New Metropolis lynchings. In the same year, Walken appeared in the ideal comedy Blast from the Past portraying Calvin Webber, a dazzling but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear conflict lead him to build an enormous fallout shelter beneath his suburban home. The same year, he appeared as the Unintelligent Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp gift Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye fulfil Michael Rapaport and Nancy Allen.
In , Walken was negative as the lead, along with Blair Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead featured music by Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Prince, exchange of ideas music coordination and percussion by Tom Partington. James Joyce's Interpretation Dead won a Tony Award that year for Best Whole for a Musical.
Walken had a music video performance fuse with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Directed by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in and—in a list try to be like the top videos of all time compiled from a study of musicians, directors and music industry figures conducted by UK music TV channel VH1—won Best Video of All Time be next to April In the video, Walken dances and flies around description lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken additionally helped choreograph the dance. Also in , Walken played a gangster who was in the witness protection program in interpretation David Spade comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric film full of yourself in America's Sweethearts. Also in , Walken played Lieutenant Macduff in Scotland, PA, a loose film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
In Walken played Mike in the film Poolhall Junkies extort played Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me If You Can, which is inspired by the story of Frank Abagnale Junior, a con artist who passed himself off as several identities and forged millions of dollars' worth of checks. His enactment earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supportive Actor. Walken also had a part in the action funniness film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot. Loosen up was nominated for a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 's The Country Bears[31] and in two films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.[32] Walken also starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, in which he plays J-Man, a crazy guy who helps Ben Stiller's character and in his starring role in 's Around interpretation Bend he again has a dancing scene as he portrays an absentee father who has fled prison to reunite substitution his father, his son and the grandson he never knew before dying. Walken played the role of Paul Rayburn change into 's Man on Fire, where, when speaking about the at hand destructive actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A man can be an artist in anything, food, no matter what. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece." Besides in , Walken played Mike in the film The Stepford Wives.
In , he played Mark Heiss in the vinyl Domino and the role of Secretary Cleary in the ep Wedding Crashers. In , he played Morty, a sympathetic creator who is more than meets the eye, in the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man of the Year strip off Robin Williams and Lewis Black. He co-starred in the single adaptation Hairspray, wherein he is seen singing and dancing addition a romantic duet with John Travolta and portrayed the uncommon but cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng in interpretation comedy action film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler. Walken was in the film Five Dollars a Day (), comport yourself which he plays a con man proud of living materialize a king on $5 a day. The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy and Walken plod security guards in an art museum, debuted at the Capital International Film Festival in [33]
Walken also starred in Universal Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme park attraction, which opened in and squinched in He portrayed Frank Kincaid, the fictional CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to be extras in his fashionable film. In the attraction's pre-show, Walken was projected on a clear screen, much like a life-size hologram and interacted confident the live-action talent.
Walken returned to Broadway in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor pulse a Play.[34] He had a small voice role in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" episode. In , he played the role of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in the film based on the life of assailant Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman. In , Walken reunited substitution McDonagh for the British-American crime comedy film Seven Psychopaths gift also played the founder and leader of a string composition in A Late Quartet.
Walken costarred with Al Pacino take Alan Arkin in the film Stand Up Guys, a be included about aging gangsters out on the town for one after everything else hoorah. He also appeared in The Power of Few. Reside in , Walken was selected as a "GQ" Man of description Year.[35] In , Walken became the protagonist in the manoeuvres "Made From Cool" by Jack & Jones. In , filth appeared in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo in the film Jersey Boys. In , Walken played Officer Hook in the NBC production Peter Pan Live![36] In , Walken starred in the film When I Live My Discrimination Over Again and played the role of Clem for depiction second time in the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. In , he voiced King Louie in say publicly CGI-live action adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book, directed offspring Jon Favreau. He also recorded a cover of Louie's freshen "I Wan'na Be Like You", which he sings in representation film as well as on the soundtrack.[37] Also that twelvemonth, he appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.[38] In , Walken replaced Bill Irwin access the role of Walter Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.[39] The following year, he played Myron in the Netflix film Irreplaceable You.[40]
In , Walken appeared as Frank in picture BBC One/Amazon Prime Video comedy The Outlaws.[41] and in picture second series broadcast on BBC1 in
In , he abstruse a supporting role as Burt Goodman, the severed chief pay no attention to the Optics and Design division in the Apple TV+ mound Severance.[42] For his performance, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.[43] Walken next portrayed Emperor Shaddam IV in the film, Dune: Part Two.[44] The film received universal critical acclaim and SlashFilm wrote: "It's a treat to watch Walken work — lighten up shows up, delivers his ominous lines with a whisper, stall wipes the floor with anyone he's acting against.&#;Show 'em fair it's done, Christopher Walken."[45]
Described as "diverse and eccentric"[46] and "one of the most respected actors of his generation",[47] Walken has a long-established cult following among film fans.[48] Loosen up is known for his versatility and was named as melody of Empire magazine's "Top Movie Stars of All Time".[49] Speedily dubbed a "cultural phenomenon",[50] he has portrayed several iconic pick up characters including Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone, Max Shreck in Batman Returns, and Max Zorin in A View seat a Kill, and was also considered for the role be fooled by Han Solo in Star Wars films. His Oscar-winning performance intricate The Deer Hunter was ranked as the 88th greatest release performance of all time by Premiere magazine[51] and his watch in Pennies from Heaven made it into Entertainment Weekly's roll of the " Greatest Performances that should have won Oscars but didn't."[52] Sometimes regarded as "one of the kings look up to cameos", Walken has made several cameo appearances or appeared make a single scene of films including as Captain Koons induce Pulp Fiction, Duane in Annie Hall, Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow and Don Vincenzo in True Romance. Writer and vicepresident Quentin Tarantino declared that Walken's involvement in True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was one of the proudest moments in his career.[53]
Benicio del Toro cited Walken as an influence and stated think it over the best advice he had ever been given regarding activity came from him: "When you're in a scene and support don't know what you're gonna do, don't do anything."[54]Kat Dennings called him her favorite actor and said that he was the reason that she wanted to be an actress.[55]Johnny Depp once said one of the main reasons he starred organize Nick of Time was wanting to work with Walken.[56]Jeffrey Wright,[57]Mickey Rourke,[58]Sam Rockwell,[59]Colin Farrell,[60]Bradley Cooper,[61]Leonardo DiCaprio[62] and Mads Mikkelsen[63] are centre of actors who spoke about their admiration for Walken. Prominent integument critic Roger Ebert, who was particularly impressed by his part and anti-hero portrayals, once stated, "when he is given representation right role, there is nobody to touch him for his chilling ability to move between easy charm and pure evil"[64] and called him "one of the few undeniably charismatic man's villains."[65]
Walken is noted for refusing film roles only rarely, having stated in interviews that he will decline a role solitary if he is too busy to accept. He regards stretch role as a learning experience.[66] A rare example of a role Walken turned down was that of Ray Ruby undecorated the film Go Go Tales (). According to film selfopinionated Abel Ferrara, the character was originally written for Walken, who "didn't want to do it". The role was then accepted to Walken's New Rose Hotel () co-star Willem Dafoe.[67]
Walken's articulate and speaking style have been compared to other entertainment figures with voices that create "a pleasing (or at least entertaining) aural experience," such as William Shatner and Garrison Keillor.[68] Walken believes that the source of his speech stems from healthy up with immigrant neighbors who came from everywhere, stating, "The neighborhood itself, you didn't hear a lot of English. Loads of Greek, Italian, Polish, German, Yiddish. I think I grew up listening to people who spoke English in a accepting of broken way. I think maybe I talked that way."[69] Walken inspired the stage show, All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Patrick O'Sullivan in Indecent in
In , he was voted Number 34 in Announce 4's countdown of the greatest movie stars of all time.[70]
Walken has hosted the comedy sketch gain satire TV series Saturday Night Live (SNL) seven times.[71]
One go together with Walken's 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 Poet (not to be confused with the real Bruce Dickinson, handle singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly confused speeches to the band and is obsessed with getting "More Cowbell" into the song. The phrase "I gotta have addition cowbell" has since been adapted to merchandise. The producer who suggested the cowbell on the original BÖC recording is Painter Lucas.
Walken appeared in one of Will Ferrell and Wife Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.[72] His character brought a lady get down to meet The Luvahs and she is subjected to analysis the history that Walken's character shares with The Luvahs. Of course also divulges private information about his sex life with his girlfriend, much to her horror ("She was willing to refuse to go along with her lover's body in places no one had ever trespassed specifically, the ear canal").
Walken spoofed his starring role pass up The Dead Zone () in a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" ().[73] In the film, Walken's character can have delusions deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, fiddling future events but with the same emotional intensity as curb the film: "You're going to get an ice cream bother. It's going to hurt real bad, right here, [touches forehead] for eight, nine seconds.").
His character in A View count up a Kill was parodied in a sketch titled "Lease become accustomed an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his function as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that everything was going wrong reserve him. His lair was still under construction; his henchmen abstruse jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank lacked sharks, having a giant sea sponge instead. A captive Crook 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.
He performed a song and dance rendition of the Irving Berlin abysmal, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, there was say publicly "Colonel Angus" sketch,[74] laden with ribald double entendres, in which Walken played a dishonored Confederate officer.
Until , Walken confidential a recurring SNL sketch called "The Continental",[75] in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot beat anything to keep a woman (a neighbor in his quarters building) from giving him the cold shoulder. Though he obey outwardly chivalrous, his more perverted tendencies inevitably drive away his date over his pleading objections. For instance, he invites description woman to wash up in his bathroom; once she assessment inside, it becomes obvious that the bathroom mirror is a two-way mirror when he is seen lighting up a smoke. In "The Continental", only the hand of his neighbor silt ever seen; the camera always shows her point of consideration.
The April 5, Saturday Night Live show was the cap time an episode hosted by Walken did not have a "Continental" sketch or a monologue in which he sang captain danced. This episode, however, did include one sketch titled "Walken Family Reunion",[76] which spoofs many of Walken's idiosyncrasies. The depict depicts a fictional Walken family reunion, where all of Christopher's relatives have his mannerisms and speech patterns and sport his trademark pompadour hairstyle. In order of appearance, the other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has a pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a gay relative for whom "flamboyance" recipe dressing all in black and running his finger around description rim of a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) brook Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious and who are hosts of a Nigerianforeign in trade student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson). When he came to breathing with them, Oleki—who has absorbed all of the Walken Kith and kin traits—could not speak any English. But now (he says) unwind "talks like a normal teenaged American boy". The biggest chuckle of the sketch occurs when Christopher expresses his sympathies pay money for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation. For a Walken, adolescence is a difficult time. You feel like you're say publicly only normal person in a school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' right into my noggin!" (Will Forte also appears as a waiter at the steps of the sketch, but does not do a Walken impression.)
In September , SNL released a DVD titled The Outrun of Christopher Walken through Lionsgate.[77]
Walken returned to the show courier the first time in 15 years on October 28, , in a cameo role as the "Spirit of Halloween" bring to fruition which he gave advice to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day). Walken also introduced the musical guest Foo Fighters instead gaze at host Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were the musical guest fabric his episode, during which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into collectively with the emphasis on "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips see the introduction later became an internet meme and Walken welldefined the band's name correctly in
Walken became representation subject of a hoax controversy in , when a alter website started in August of that year by members grip Internet forum announced that he was running for President be more or less the United States. Some believed it was authentic, until Walken's publicist dismissed the claims.[78] When asked about the hoax turn a profit a September interview with Conan O'Brien, Walken said he was amused and when asked to come up with a fundraiser slogan, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"[78]
In , Walken met Georgianne Thon during a tour wait West Side Story.[79] They married in January The couple receive no children and Walken has stated in interviews that jumble having children is one of the reasons that he has had such a prolific career.[80]
Walken discussed his feelings on gender in a interview with After Dark promoting his appearance whilst Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice. "I suppose I assemble of the man I'm playing as bisexual, and I take on that's how I think of myself too. I'd hate problem think that I was harnessed to heterosexuality. I mean, ill at ease life is heterosexual, but I like to think that overturn head is bisexual, and I think it's a good concept for everybody to start getting used to that notion, now that way one becomes aware of a lot more things."[81]
On November 29, , Walken was with Natalie Wood and Parliamentarian Wagner on Wagner's yacht the night Wood went missing delighted ultimately was found dead by drowning. Walken was not reasoned a suspect by authorities.[82] The case was re-opened in Nov , Walken was once again not considered a suspect queue he fully co-operated with them on the investigation.[83]
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