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Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-10-13 (110 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.

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Known For

Acting

1985

Beyond Reason as Dr. Grovenor
Jagged Edge as Duane Bendix

1983

White Water Rebels as Leonard Phelps
The A-Team as General Bullen
Automan as Theodore Behrens

1982

St. Elsewhere as Dr. Lunden

1981

Scruples as Dr. Rutgers
Advice to the Lovelorn as Walter Sheehan
Separate Ways as Lawrence Stevens
Falcon Crest as Carter St. John

1980

Make Me an Offer as Glenn Harris
The Nude Bomb as American Ambassador

1979

In Search of Historic Jesus as Joseph of Arimathea
Mirror, Mirror as Dr. Samuel Shaw
Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
Knots Landing as Henry

1978

Dallas as Cole Young

1977

Black Sunday as Fowler
The Pinballs as Mr. Mason
Lou Grant as Reggie Washburn
Big Hawaii as Giles Webber

1976

Fury of the Dragon as Frank P. Scanlon
Time Travelers as Dr. Stafford
The Big Bus as Mr. Ames
St. Ives as Mickey
Street Killing as The Major
La revanche du dragon as Dist. atty. Scanlon
Charlie's Angels as Twilliger
Quincy, M.E. as Dr. Max Gilliam
Charlie's Angels as Mr. Kellerman

1975

Framed as Sen. Tatum

1974

The Green Hornet as Dist. Atty Scanlon
Harrad Summer as Sam Grove
The Chadwick Family as Dr. Simon
The Cowboys as Reager
The Rockford Files as Clyde Russell
Petrocelli as Arthur Martin
The Six Million Dollar Man as General Harland Tate
The Rockford Files as Mr. Gertmanian
The Rockford Files as NIA Agent Bill Simonds
The Rockford Files as Dr. Bosca

1973

Kojak as Judge Lavery
The Magician as Orin Connover

1972

The Astronaut as Tom Everett
M*A*S*H as General Weiskopf
The Waltons as Mr. Clarence Johnson
Banacek as Walter Peterson
Emergency! as James Barnes

1971

The Mephisto Waltz as Party Guest (uncredited)
Lawman as Luther Harris
A Tattered Web as Lt. Preston
The Andromeda Strain as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
McMillan & Wife as D. A. Chapman
McMillan & Wife as Martin Sandowski
Bearcats! as Fairfield

1970

The Landlord as William Enders
Tora! Tora! Tora! as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
Zig Zag as Adam Mercer
San Francisco International as Clifford Foster Evans
Dan August as Earl Jackson

1969

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting as Jerry Wolfe
Marooned as Network Commentator
Marcus Welby, M.D. as Dr. Roy Staples

1968

How Sweet It Is! as Haskell Wax
Sergeant Ryker as Col. Arthur Merriam
Yours, Mine and Ours as Howard Beardsley
Hawaii Five-O as Samuel Hammock

1967

The Graduate as Mr. McGuire
The High Chaparral as Robert Morris
The Invaders as Danvers
Dragnet as Capt. Carl Fuller
Mannix as Captain Wells
Mannix as Mark Mitchell

1966

The Rat Patrol as Capt. Vulcan
The Green Hornet as Frank P. Scanlon

1965

The F.B.I. as Lucas Vale
Run for Your Life as The Examiner
The Big Valley as Dave Steigler
Run for Your Life as Richard Phillips
Run for Your Life as Ralph Phillips
The Wild Wild West as Prosecutor

1964

1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre as Col. Arthur Merriam
The Fugitive as Jesse Platt
The Fugitive as Wilcox
The Fugitive as Moderator
Mr. Novak as Jess Capper

1962

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
The Beachcomber as Erickson
The Virginian as Lt. Paul Kenner
McHale's Navy as Capt. Harper

1961

Bloodlust! as Dean Gerrard
Dr. Kildare as William Fredericks

1959

The Twilight Zone as Chad Cooper
The Twilight Zone as Dr. Raymond Gordon
Bonanza as Tobias Wentworth Finch
Bonanza as Atworth Perry

1958

The Party Crashers as Mr. Webster

1957

Perry Mason as District Attorney
Perry Mason as Deputy D.A.

1955

Conquest of Space as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
Gunsmoke as Capt. Nichols
Cheyenne as Edward DeVier

1953

Letter to Loretta as Mr. Brown

1951

1950

1949

C-Man as Joe

1948

Studio One as Jeff

1942

The Male Animal as Reporter (uncredited)
Desperate Journey as Sgt. Warwick
Bullet Scars as Trooper Walter Leary
All Through the Night as Reporter (uncredited)
Murder in the Big House as Reporter (uncredited)
In This Our Life as Cab Driver (uncredited)

1941

They Died with Their Boots On as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)