Walter Brooke
Acting • Born 1914-10-13 – Died 1986-08-20
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.
Filmography
183 credits
The Male Animal
Movie • 1942
Reporter (uncredited)
Conquest of Space
Movie • 1955
Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
The Return of Count Yorga
Movie • 1971
Bill Nelson
Executive Action
Movie • 1973
Smythe
The Graduate
Movie • 1967
Mr. McGuire
Framed
Movie • 1975
Sen. Tatum
C-Man
Movie • 1949
Joe
The Landlord
Movie • 1970
William Enders
The Green Hornet
Movie • 1974
Dist. Atty Scanlon
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Captain Theodore Wilkinson
Zig Zag
Movie • 1970
Adam Mercer
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Movie • 1969
Jerry Wolfe
North Dallas Forty
Movie • 1979
Doctor
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1962
The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
The Astronaut
Movie • 1972
Tom Everett
The Party Crashers
Movie • 1958
Mr. Webster
Desperate Journey
Movie • 1942
Sgt. Warwick
Bullet Scars
Movie • 1942
Trooper Walter Leary
How Sweet It Is!
Movie • 1968
Haskell Wax
Stowaway to the Moon
Movie • 1975
Whitehead
Visions of Christmas Past
Movie • 1979
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Movie • 1971
Rector
Bloodlust!
Movie • 1961
Dean Gerrard
Fury of the Dragon
Movie • 1976
Frank P. Scanlon
Fun with Dick and Jane
Movie • 1977
Mr. Weeks
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
Movie • 1974
Michael Doran
All Through the Night
Movie • 1942
Reporter (uncredited)
Scruples
Movie • 1981
Dr. Rutgers
In Search of Historic Jesus
Movie • 1979
Joseph of Arimathea
San Francisco International
Movie • 1970
Clifford Foster Evans
Time Travelers
Movie • 1976
Dr. Stafford
Make Me an Offer
Movie • 1980
Glenn Harris
Advice to the Lovelorn
Movie • 1981
Walter Sheehan
Mirror, Mirror
Movie • 1979
Dr. Samuel Shaw
The Big Bus
Movie • 1976
Mr. Ames
The Nude Bomb
Movie • 1980
American Ambassador
Marooned
Movie • 1969
Network Commentator
Murder in the Big House
Movie • 1942
Reporter (uncredited)
Beyond Reason
Movie • 1982
Dr. Grovenor
Sergeant Ryker
Movie • 1968
Col. Arthur Merriam
Separate Ways
Movie • 1981
Lawrence Stevens
Jagged Edge
Movie • 1985
Duane Bendix
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
The Mephisto Waltz
Movie • 1971
Party Guest (uncredited)
Harrad Summer
Movie • 1974
Sam Grove
Beggarman, Thief
Movie • 1979
American Intelligence Agent
The New Adventures of Heidi
Movie • 1978
Cousin Tobias
Yours, Mine and Ours
Movie • 1968
Howard Beardsley
The Chadwick Family
Movie • 1974
Dr. Simon
Lawman
Movie • 1971
Luther Harris
Winter Kill
Movie • 1974
Ben
A Tattered Web
Movie • 1971
Lt. Preston
The Andromeda Strain
Movie • 1971
Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
Black Sunday
Movie • 1977
Fowler
In This Our Life
Movie • 1942
Cab Driver (uncredited)
The Other Side of the Mountain
Movie • 1975
Dean
The Pinballs
Movie • 1977
Mr. Mason
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Movie • 1974
Mr. Denver
St. Ives
Movie • 1976
Mickey
White Water Rebels
Movie • 1983
Leonard Phelps
Street Killing
Movie • 1976
The Major
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Carter St. John
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
General Weiskopf
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Mrs. Columbo
TV • 1979
Arnie
TV • 1970
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Taylor
The A-Team
TV • 1983
General Bullen
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Col. Arthur Merriam
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Lucas Vale
The Munsters
TV • 1964
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Samuel Hammock
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TV • 1979
U.S. President
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Dr. Roy Staples
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Room 222
TV • 1969
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Twilliger
Mannix
TV • 1967
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Jesse Platt
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Henry
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Chad Cooper
Kojak
TV • 1973
Judge Lavery
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Capt. Nichols
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
District Attorney
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Judge
Studio One
TV • 1948
Jeff
Dallas
TV • 1978
Cole Young
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Run, Joe, Run
TV • 1974
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Dr. Raymond Gordon
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Mr. Clarence Johnson
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Wilcox
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
Bus Stop
TV • 1961
The Beachcomber
TV • 1962
Erickson
Vega$
TV • 1978
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
The Examiner
The Outcasts
TV • 1968
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Moderator
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Carney
S.W.A.T.
TV • 1975
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Lt. Paul Kenner
Lancer
TV • 1968
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Dave Steigler
The Man and the City
TV • 1971
Bronco
TV • 1958
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Grindl
TV • 1963
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
The Rat Patrol
TV • 1966
Capt. Vulcan
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Jess Capper
New York Confidential
TV • 1959
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
The Cowboys
TV • 1974
Reager
Nero Wolfe
TV • 1981
Paradise Bay
TV • 1965
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
William Fredericks
Archer
TV • 1975
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mr. Brown
The Outsider
TV • 1968
The Green Hornet
TV • 1966
Frank P. Scanlon
Bronk
TV • 1975
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Tobias Wentworth Finch
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV • 1964
Dan Case
The Magician
TV • 1973
Orin Connover
Automan
TV • 1983
Theodore Behrens
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Edward DeVier
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Clyde Russell
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Atworth Perry
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Arthur Martin
Banacek
TV • 1972
Walter Peterson
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
General Harland Tate
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
General Wiley
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Robert Morris
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Ralph Phillips
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Richard Phillips
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Deputy D.A.
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Dr. Tellman
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Prosecutor
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Doc
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Mr. Gertmanian
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
NIA Agent Bill Simonds
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Mr. Patrick
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
D. A. Chapman
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Dr. Max Gilliam
Emergency!
TV • 1972
James Barnes
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Mr. Kellerman
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Danvers
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
TV • 1950
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Martin Sandowski
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Capt. Carl Fuller
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
John Wilcox
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Dr. Yates
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Dr. Bosca
McHale's Navy
TV • 1962
Capt. Harper
The Danny Thomas Hour
TV • 1967
Mannix
TV • 1967
Captain Wells
Mannix
TV • 1967
Mark Mitchell
Lou Grant
TV • 1977
Reggie Washburn
Bearcats!
TV • 1971
Fairfield
Dan August
TV • 1970
Earl Jackson
Big Hawaii
TV • 1977
Giles Webber
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
George Webster
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Dr. Lunden
Studio One
TV • 1948
Detective
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Councilman Becker
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Judd Kenyon
Mannix
TV • 1967
Bill Kraike
Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV • 1950
Boland
Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV • 1950
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Doc Walters
Cassie & Co.
TV • 1982