Person
Walter Brooke
Born 13 October 1914 Died 20 August 1986, aged 71 New York City, New York, U.S. TMDB ↗
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".
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27age in their first credit on record (1941)
44years on screen and counting
17credits in 1974, their busiest year
184dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 70 Jagged Edge
1985as Duane Bendix
Age: 68 White Water Rebels
1983as Leonard Phelps
Age: 67 Beyond Reason
1982as Dr. Grovenor
Age: 67 Advice to the Lovelorn
1981as Walter Sheehan
Age: 66 Scruples
1981as Dr. Rutgers
Age: 66 Separate Ways
1981as Lawrence Stevens
Age: 65 The Nude Bomb
1980as American Ambassador
Age: 65 Make Me an Offer
1980as Glenn Harris
Age: 65 Visions of Christmas Past
1979
Age: 65 Beggarman, Thief
1979as American Intelligence Agent
Age: 64 Mirror, Mirror
1979as Dr. Samuel Shaw
Age: 64 North Dallas Forty
1979as Doctor
Age: 64 In Search of Historic Jesus
1979as Joseph of Arimathea
Age: 64 The New Adventures of Heidi
1978as Cousin Tobias
Age: 63 The Pinballs
1977as Mr. Mason
Age: 62 Black Sunday
1977as Fowler
Age: 62 Fun with Dick and Jane
1977as Mr. Weeks
Age: 62 Fury of the Dragon
1976as Frank P. Scanlon
Age: 61 Street Killing
1976as The Major
Age: 61 The Big Bus
1976as Mr. Ames
Age: 61 Time Travelers
1976as Dr. Stafford
Age: 61 St. Ives
1976as Mickey
Age: 61 The Other Side of the Mountain
1975as Dean
Age: 60 Framed
1975as Sen. Tatum
Age: 60 Stowaway to the Moon
1975as Whitehead
Age: 59 Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
1974as Michael Doran
Age: 59 Harrad Summer
1974as Sam Grove
Age: 59 The Chadwick Family
1974as Dr. Simon
Age: 59 Winter Kill
1974as Ben
Age: 59 The Green Hornet
1974as Dist. Atty Scanlon
Age: 59 The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974as Mr. Denver
Age: 59 Executive Action
1973as Smythe
Age: 57 The Astronaut
1972as Tom Everett
Age: 56 A Tattered Web
1971as Lt. Preston
Age: 56 The Return of Count Yorga
1971as Bill Nelson
Age: 56 The Mephisto Waltz
1971as Party Guest (uncredited)
Age: 56 The Andromeda Strain
1971as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
Age: 56 Lawman
1971as Luther Harris
Age: 56 Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971as Rector
Age: 55 San Francisco International
1970as Clifford Foster Evans
Age: 55 The Landlord
1970as William Enders
Age: 55 Zig Zag
1970as Adam Mercer
Age: 55 Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
Age: 55 Marooned
1969as Network Commentator
Age: 54 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969as Jerry Wolfe
Age: 53 How Sweet It Is!
1968as Haskell Wax
Age: 53 Yours, Mine and Ours
1968as Howard Beardsley
Age: 53 Sergeant Ryker
1968as Col. Arthur Merriam
Age: 53 The Graduate
1967as Mr. McGuire
Age: 47 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Age: 46 Bloodlust!
1961as Dean Gerrard
Age: 43 The Party Crashers
1958as Mr. Webster
Age: 40 Conquest of Space
1955as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
Age: 34 C-Man
1949as Joe
Age: 27 Desperate Journey
1942as Sgt. Warwick
Age: 27 In This Our Life
1942as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Age: 27 Murder in the Big House
1942as Reporter (uncredited)
Age: 27 The Male Animal
1942as Reporter (uncredited)
Age: 27 Bullet Scars
1942as Trooper Walter Leary
Age: 27 All Through the Night
1942as Reporter (uncredited)
Age: 27 They Died with Their Boots On
1941as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
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TV credits
Age: 69 Automan
1983as Theodore Behrens
Age: 68 The A-Team
1983as General Bullen
Age: 68 St. Elsewhere
1982as Dr. Lunden
Age: 67 Cagney & Lacey
1982as Judge
Age: 67 Cassie & Co.
1982
Age: 67 Nero Wolfe
1981
Age: 67 Falcon Crest
1981as Carter St. John
Age: 67 Simon & Simon
1981
Age: 65 Knots Landing
1979as Henry
Age: 65 Beggarman, Thief
1979as American Intelligence Agent
Age: 64 Hart to Hart
1979
Age: 64 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979as U.S. President
Age: 64 Mrs. Columbo
1979
Age: 63 Vega$
1978
Age: 63 Dallas
1978as Cole Young
Age: 63 The Incredible Hulk
1977
Age: 62 Big Hawaii
1977as Giles Webber
Age: 62 Lou Grant
1977as Reggie Washburn
Age: 61 Quincy, M.E.
1976 Age: 61 Quincy, M.E.
1976as Dr. Max Gilliam
Age: 61 Quincy, M.E.
1976as Councilman Becker
Age: 61 Quincy, M.E.
1976as Judd Kenyon
Age: 61 Charlie's Angels
1976as Twilliger
Age: 61 Charlie's Angels
1976as Mr. Kellerman
Age: 60 Starsky & Hutch
1975
Age: 60 Bronk
1975
Age: 60 S.W.A.T.
1975
Age: 60 Archer
1975
Age: 59 The Rockford Files
1974as Clyde Russell
Age: 59 The Rockford Files
1974as Mr. Gertmanian
Age: 59 The Rockford Files
1974as NIA Agent Bill Simonds
Age: 59 The Rockford Files
1974as Dr. Bosca
Age: 59 Little House on the Prairie
1974as Sandler
Age: 59 Petrocelli
1974as Arthur Martin
Age: 59 Run, Joe, Run
1974No poster
Age: 59 The Cowboys
1974as Reager
Age: 59 The Six Million Dollar Man
1974as General Harland Tate
Age: 59 The Six Million Dollar Man
1974as General Wiley
Age: 59 The Six Million Dollar Man
1974as Dr. Tellman
Age: 59 Kojak
1973as Judge Lavery
Age: 58 The Magician
1973as Orin Connover
Age: 57 The Streets of San Francisco
1972 Age: 57 The Streets of San Francisco
1972as John Wilcox
Age: 57 The Streets of San Francisco
1972as George Webster
Age: 57 M*A*S*H
1972as General Weiskopf
Age: 57 The Waltons
1972as Mr. Clarence Johnson
Age: 57 Banacek
1972as Walter Peterson
Age: 57 The Rookies
1972
Age: 57 Emergency!
1972as James Barnes
Age: 57 The Sixth Sense
1972
Age: 56 McMillan & Wife
1971as D. A. Chapman
Age: 56 McMillan & Wife
1971as Martin Sandowski
Age: 56 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971as Mr. Patrick
Age: 56 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971as Dr. Yates
Age: 56 Bearcats!
1971as Fairfield
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Age: 56 The Man and the City
1971
Age: 56 Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Age: 55 Dan August
1970as Earl Jackson
Age: 55 Arnie
1970
Age: 54 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969as Dr. Roy Staples
Age: 54 Room 222
1969
Age: 53 Lancer
1968
Age: 53 The Outcasts
1968
Age: 53 Hawaii Five-O
1968as Samuel Hammock
Age: 53 The Outsider
1968
Age: 52 Mannix
1967 Age: 52 Mannix
1967as Captain Wells
Age: 52 Mannix
1967as Mark Mitchell
Age: 52 Mannix
1967as Bill Kraike
Age: 52 The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
Age: 52 The High Chaparral
1967as Carney
Age: 52 The High Chaparral
1967as Robert Morris
Age: 52 Judd, for the Defense
1967
Age: 52 Ironside
1967
Age: 52 Dragnet
1967as Capt. Carl Fuller
Age: 52 The Invaders
1967as Danvers
Age: 51 The Rat Patrol
1966as Capt. Vulcan
Age: 51 The Green Hornet
1966as Frank P. Scanlon
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Age: 50 Paradise Bay
1965
Age: 50 The F.B.I.
1965as Lucas Vale
Age: 50 The Wild Wild West
1965as Prosecutor
Age: 50 The Big Valley
1965as Dave Steigler
Age: 50 Run for Your Life
1965as The Examiner
Age: 50 Run for Your Life
1965as Richard Phillips
Age: 50 Run for Your Life
1965as Ralph Phillips
Age: 49 The Munsters
1964
Age: 49 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964as Dan Case
Age: 48 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963as Col. Arthur Merriam
Age: 48 The Great Adventure
1963as Taylor
Age: 48 Mr. Novak
1963as Jess Capper
Age: 48 The Fugitive
1963as Jesse Platt
Age: 48 The Fugitive
1963as Wilcox
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Age: 48 The Greatest Show on Earth
1963 Age: 48 The Fugitive
1963as Moderator
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Age: 48 Grindl
1963
Age: 48 Arrest and Trial
1963as Doc
Age: 47 McHale's Navy
1962as Capt. Harper
Age: 47 The Virginian
1962as Lt. Paul Kenner
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Age: 47 The Beachcomber
1962as Erickson
Age: 46 Ben Casey
1961
Age: 46 Bus Stop
1961
Age: 46 Dr. Kildare
1961as William Fredericks
Age: 44 Hawaiian Eye
1959
Age: 44 The Twilight Zone
1959as Chad Cooper
Age: 44 The Twilight Zone
1959as Dr. Raymond Gordon
Age: 44 Bonanza
1959as Tobias Wentworth Finch
Age: 44 Bonanza
1959as Atworth Perry
Age: 44 New York Confidential
1959
Age: 43 The Donna Reed Show
1958
Age: 43 Bronco
1958
Age: 42 Trackdown
1957as Doc Walters
Age: 42 Perry Mason
1957as District Attorney
Age: 42 Perry Mason
1957as Deputy D.A.
Age: 40 Cheyenne
1955as Edward DeVier
Age: 40 Gunsmoke
1955as Capt. Nichols
Age: 38 Letter to Loretta
1953as Mr. Brown
Age: 36 Tales of Tomorrow
1951No poster
Age: 35 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1950
Age: 35 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950as Boland
Age: 35 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
Age: 34 Studio One
1948as Jeff
Age: 34 Studio One
1948as Detective
Age: 33