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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Jagged Edge
1985
as Duane Bendix
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a crimina...
Beyond Reason
1985
as Dr. Grovenor
An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
White Water Rebels
1983
as Leonard Phelps
James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.
Advice to the Lovelorn
1981
as Walter Sheehan
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she r...
Scruples
1981
as Dr. Rutgers
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owne...
Separate Ways
1981
as Lawrence Stevens
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
The Nude Bomb
1980
as American Ambassador
When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
Make Me an Offer
1980
as Glenn Harris
Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal ...
Visions of Christmas Past
1979
A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late husb...
Beggarman, Thief
1979
as American Intelligence Agent
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murde...
Mirror, Mirror
1979
as Dr. Samuel Shaw
A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.
North Dallas Forty
1979
as Doctor
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
as Joseph of Arimathea
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978
as Cousin Tobias
The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright ligh...
The Pinballs
1977
as Mr. Mason
Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.
Black Sunday
1977
as Fowler
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Supe...
Fun with Dick and Jane
1977
as Mr. Weeks
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Fury of the Dragon
1976
as Frank P. Scanlon
Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.
Street Killing
1976
as The Major
In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a hig...
The Big Bus
1976
as Mr. Ames
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste...
Time Travelers
1976
as Dr. Stafford
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago....
St. Ives
1976
as Mickey
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
The Other Side of the Mountain
1975
as Dean
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now...
Framed
1975
as Sen. Tatum
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind ...
Stowaway to the Moon
1975
as Whitehead
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a ...
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
1974
Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their ...
Harrad Summer
1974
as Sam Grove
Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
The Chadwick Family
1974
as Dr. Simon
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau...
Winter Kill
1974
as Ben
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and...
The Green Hornet
1974
as Dist. Atty Scanlon
After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this proper...
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974
as Mr. Denver
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping...
Executive Action
1973
as Smythe
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...
The Astronaut
1972
as Tom Everett
An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and go...
A Tattered Web
1971
as Lt. Preston
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on ...
The Return of Count Yorga
1971
as Bill Nelson
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of...
The Mephisto Waltz
1971
as Party Guest (uncredited)
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not...
The Andromeda Strain
1971
as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air For...
Lawman
1971
as Luther Harris
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971
as Rector
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he me...
San Francisco International
1970
as Clifford Foster Evans
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots ...
The Landlord
1970
as William Enders
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...
Zig Zag
1970
as Adam Mercer
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! ...
Marooned
1969
as Network Commentator
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. Af...
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969
as Jerry Wolfe
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
How Sweet It Is!
1968
as Haskell Wax
All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, a...
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
as Howard Beardsley
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Col. Arthur Merriam
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and...
The Graduate
1967
as Mr. McGuire
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s...
Bloodlust!
1961
as Dean Gerrard
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Ba...
The Party Crashers
1958
as Mr. Webster
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Conquest of Space
1955
as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
C-Man
1949
as Joe
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
Desperate Journey
1942
as Sgt. Warwick
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German...
In This Our Life
1942
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Murder in the Big House
1942
as Reporter (uncredited)
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
The Male Animal
1942
as Reporter (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten...
Bullet Scars
1942
as Trooper Walter Leary
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also take...
All Through the Night
1942
as Reporter (uncredited)
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th...