Walter Brooke
Birthday: 1914-10-13
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
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.
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The Male Animal
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Conquest of Space
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captai...
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The Return of Count Yorga
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Executive Action
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The Graduate
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Framed
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C-Man
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The Landlord
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The Green Hornet
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
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North Dallas Forty
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
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The Astronaut
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Desperate Journey
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Bullet Scars
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How Sweet It Is!
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Stowaway to the Moon
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Visions of Christmas Past
A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones....
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
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Bloodlust!
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Fury of the Dragon
Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature....
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Fun with Dick and Jane
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Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
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All Through the Night
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Scruples
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In Search of Historic Jesus
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San Francisco International
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Time Travelers
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Make Me an Offer
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Advice to the Lovelorn
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Mirror, Mirror
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The Big Bus
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The Nude Bomb
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Marooned
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Murder in the Big House
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Beyond Reason
An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity....
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Sergeant Ryker
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Separate Ways
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Jagged Edge
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They Died with Their Boots On
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The Mephisto Waltz
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Harrad Summer
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Beggarman, Thief
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The New Adventures of Heidi
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Yours, Mine and Ours
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The Chadwick Family
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Lawman
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Winter Kill
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A Tattered Web
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The Andromeda Strain
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Black Sunday
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In This Our Life
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The Other Side of the Mountain
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The Pinballs
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The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with a...
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St. Ives
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers....
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White Water Rebels
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Street Killing
In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a rece...
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