RIP M. Emmet Walsh

Stanton-Walsh Rule: No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

   -Roger Ebert, Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary

Customarily grumpy, disheveled, or bewildered (if not all three at once), Walsh is the quintessential character actor. His lumpy everyman look allows him to play everything from cops to hoboes to killers, and he’s just memorable enough that his appearance in a movie or TV show is like a serving of comfort food.

  -Peter Hanson, Peter Hanson's Field Guide to Interesting Film

Blood Simple (1984)
   -Messenger