William morris mini biography of christopher walken

  • Christopher Walken, an actor with an unrivaled style and a commanding screen presence, has spent decades captivating audiences.
  • He has been married for 35 years to Georgianne Walken, lives in a comfortable house in Connecticut, is a “fish and vegetable” kind of guy.
  • Modine and his agents have assembled a short-list of Christopher Walken, Jon Voight and Harvey Keitel.

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    All Christopher Walken Movies Ranked

    (Photo by CBS Films/Courtesy Everett Collection)

    Christopher Walken&#;s first significant appearance in a movie, Annie Hall, may have been brief but it was certainly memorable (he played Annie&#;s possibly psychotic brother) – so memorable that studios began casting him in seemingly everything that possibly could. And, indeed, Walken has since been in nearly movies across a six-decade career, a performer whose intense presence and halting speech cadence makes him perfectly suited for dramatics, comedy, and villainy.

    Walken has collaborated with some of the biggest name directors out there, including Steven Spielberg (Catch Me If You Can), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Clint Eastwood (Jersey Boys), Tim Burton (Batman Returns, SleepyHollow, The Dead Zone), Martin McDonagh (Seven Psychopaths), Abel Ferrara (The King of New York, New Rose Hotel), and Michael Cimino. Cimino&#;s The Deer Hunter got Walken his first Os

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    Not acting at all himself

    Sipping tea on a sunny winter morning in West Hollywood, Christopher Walken sees a bird perched on a tree branch in an outdoor patio. The bird, a common little house sparrow seen at any restaurant picking up bread crumbs, interrupts his thoughts.

    “Hey there, little bird,” he says softly. “I’m going to give you some bread, little bird.” But there is no bread to give and he is in the middle of an interview. So instead, he stares at the bird for several seconds, creating an awkward silence.

    Whether it’s a bird, a siren or a daydream, Walken has a hard time focusing on the topic at hand -- him. It becomes obvious that Walken, one of Hollywood’s most outrageous character actors, is a gentle, if eccentric, soul.

    He seems to loathe talking about himself and, when he does, he deliberately understates his accomplishments. Although he has been a performer since age 9, he is altogether ill at ease talking to strangers. He once told a friend he wished he had a tail

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    Scotland, PA

    film by William Morrissette

    This article is about the film. For the community in Pennsylvania, see Scotland, Pennsylvania.

    Scotland, PA is a American black comedycrime film written and directed by Billy Morrissette as a modernized retelling of Macbeth.[1] The film stars James LeGros, Maura Tierney, and Christopher Walken. The Shakespearean tragedy, originally set in Dunsinane Castle in 11th-century Scotland, is reworked into a dark comedy set in , centered on "Duncan's Cafe", a fast-food restaurant in the small town of Scotland, Pennsylvania. The film was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[3][5]

    Plot

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    In , Duncan's, a fast-food restaurant owned by Norm Duncan in the tiny hamlet of Scotland, Pennsylvania, hosts a variety of workers.[6][7] Joe “Mac” McBeth is passed over for a promotion to manager by Douglas McKenna, who has been embezzling the restaurant's money. Three stoned hippies, one a fortune teller,