Walter Brooke

Acting

Born October 13, 1914, New York City, New York, U.S.

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.

Filmography

• 1985Jagged Edge — Duane Bendix
• Automan — Theodore Behrens
• The A-Team — General Bullen
• 1983White Water Rebels — Leonard Phelps
• 1982Beyond Reason — Dr. Grovenor
• Cagney & Lacey — Judge
• Cassie & Co.
• St. Elsewhere — Dr. Lunden
• 1981Advice to the Lovelorn — Walter Sheehan
• Falcon Crest — Carter St. John
• Nero Wolfe — George Briggs
• 1981Scruples — Dr. Rutgers
• 1981Separate Ways — Lawrence Stevens
• Simon & Simon
• 1980Make Me an Offer — Glenn Harris
• 1980The Nude Bomb — American Ambassador
• Beggarman, Thief — American Intelligence Agent
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — U.S. President
• Hart to Hart
• 1979In Search of Historic Jesus — Joseph of Arimathea
• Knots Landing — Henry
• 1979Mirror, Mirror — Dr. Samuel Shaw
• Mrs. Columbo
• 1979North Dallas Forty — Doctor
• 1979Visions of Christmas Past
• Dallas — Cole Young
• 1978The New Adventures of Heidi — Cousin Tobias
• Vega$
• Big Hawaii — Giles Webber
• 1977Black Sunday — Fowler
• 1977Fun with Dick and Jane — Mr. Weeks
• Lou Grant — Reggie Washburn
• The Incredible Hulk
• 1977The Pinballs — Mr. Mason
• Charlie's Angels — Twilliger, Mr. Kellerman
• 1976Fury of the Dragon — Frank P. Scanlon
• Quincy, M.E. — Dr. Max Gilliam, Councilman Becker, Judd Kenyon
• 1976St. Ives — Mickey
• 1976Street Killing — The Major
• 1976The Big Bus — Mr. Ames
• 1976Time Travelers — Dr. Stafford
• Archer
• Bronk
• 1975Framed — Sen. Tatum
• S.W.A.T.
• Starsky & Hutch
• 1975Stowaway to the Moon — Whitehead
• 1975The Other Side of the Mountain — Dean
• 1974Harrad Summer — Sam Grove
• Little House on the Prairie — Sandler
• 1974Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest — Michael Doran
• Petrocelli — Arthur Martin
• Run, Joe, Run
• 1974The Chadwick Family — Dr. Simon
• The Cowboys — Reager
• 1974The Green Hornet — Dist. Atty Scanlon
• The Rockford Files — Clyde Russell, Mr. Gertmanian, NIA Agent Bill Simonds, Dr. Bosca
• The Six Million Dollar Man — General Harland Tate, General Wiley, Dr. Tellman
• 1974The Stranger Who Looks Like Me — Mr. Denver
• 1974Winter Kill — Ben
• 1973Executive Action — Smythe
• Kojak — Judge Lavery
• The Magician — Orin Connover
• Banacek — Walter Peterson
• Emergency! — James Barnes
• M*A*S*H — General Weiskopf
• 1972The Astronaut — Tom Everett
• The Rookies
• The Sixth Sense
• The Streets of San Francisco — John Wilcox, George Webster
• The Waltons — Mr. Clarence Johnson
• 1971A Tattered Web — Lt. Preston
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Bearcats! — Fairfield
• 1971Lawman — Luther Harris
• McMillan & Wife — D. A. Chapman, Martin Sandowski
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — Mr. Patrick, Dr. Yates
• 1971Sarge: The Badge or the Cross — Rector
• 1971The Andromeda Strain — Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
• The Man and the City
• 1971The Mephisto Waltz — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1971The Return of Count Yorga — Bill Nelson
• Arnie
• Dan August — Earl Jackson
• 1970San Francisco International — Clifford Foster Evans
• 1970The Landlord — William Enders
• 1970Tora! Tora! Tora! — Captain Theodore Wilkinson
• 1970Zig Zag — Adam Mercer
• 1969Daddy's Gone A-Hunting — Jerry Wolfe
• Hawaii Five-O — Samuel Hammock
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Dr. Roy Staples
• 1969Marooned — Network Commentator
• Room 222
• 1968How Sweet It Is! — Haskell Wax
• Lancer
• 1968Sergeant Ryker — Col. Arthur Merriam
• The Outcasts
• The Outsider
• 1968Yours, Mine and Ours — Howard Beardsley
• Dragnet — Capt. Carl Fuller
• Ironside
• Judd, for the Defense
• Mannix — Captain Wells, Mark Mitchell, Bill Kraike
• The Danny Thomas Hour
• 1967The Graduate — Mr. McGuire
• The High Chaparral — Carney, Robert Morris
• The Invaders — Danvers
• The Green Hornet — Frank P. Scanlon
• The Rat Patrol — Capt. Vulcan
• Paradise Bay
• Run for Your Life — The Examiner, Richard Phillips, Ralph Phillips
• The Big Valley — Dave Steigler
• The F.B.I. — Lucas Vale
• The Wild Wild West — Prosecutor
• The Munsters
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — Dan Case
• Arrest and Trial — Doc
• Grindl
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Col. Arthur Merriam
• Mr. Novak — Jess Capper
• The Fugitive — Jesse Platt, Wilcox, Moderator
• The Great Adventure — Taylor
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• McHale's Navy — Capt. Harper
• The Beachcomber — Erickson
• The Virginian — Lt. Paul Kenner
• 1962The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm — The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
• Ben Casey
• 1961Bloodlust! — Dean Gerrard
• Bus Stop
• Dr. Kildare — William Fredericks
• Bonanza — Tobias Wentworth Finch, Atworth Perry
• Hawaiian Eye — Curtis Harrison
• New York Confidential
• The Twilight Zone — Chad Cooper, Dr. Raymond Gordon
• Bronco
• The Donna Reed Show — Daniel
• 1958The Party Crashers — Mr. Webster
• Perry Mason — District Attorney, Deputy D.A.
• Trackdown — Doc Walters
• Cheyenne — Edward DeVier
• 1955Conquest of Space — Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
• Gunsmoke — Capt. Nichols
• Letter to Loretta — Mr. Brown
• Tales of Tomorrow
• Armstrong Circle Theatre — Boland
• Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
• 1949C-Man — Joe
• Studio One — Jeff, Detective
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• 1942All Through the Night — Reporter (uncredited)
• 1942Bullet Scars — Trooper Walter Leary
• 1942Desperate Journey — Sgt. Warwick
• 1942In This Our Life — Cab Driver (uncredited)
• 1942Murder in the Big House — Reporter (uncredited)
• 1942The Male Animal — Reporter (uncredited)
• 1941They Died with Their Boots On — Cadet Rosser (uncredited)