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Walter Brooke

Acting

Born October 13, 1914 · New York City, New York, U.S.

Died August 20, 1986

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.

Filmography50+ titles

Banacek

1972as Walter Peterson

The Twilight Zone

1959as Dr. Raymond Gordon

Little House on the Prairie

1974as Sandler

Emergency!

1972as James Barnes

M*A*S*H

1972as General Weiskopf

The Munsters

1964

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964as Dan Case

Perry Mason

1957as District Attorney

The Rockford Files

1974as Dr. Bosca

The Graduate

1967as Mr. McGuire

The Wild Wild West

1965as Prosecutor

The A-Team

1983as General Bullen

Quincy, M.E.

1976

Bonanza

1959as Atworth Perry

Starsky & Hutch

1975

The Six Million Dollar Man

1974as General Harland Tate

The Green Hornet

1966as Frank P. Scanlon

The Fugitive

1963as Moderator

The Incredible Hulk

1977

Winter Kill

1974as Ben

Kojak

1973as Judge Lavery

The Waltons

1972as Mr. Clarence Johnson

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970as Captain Theodore Wilkinson

Hawaii Five-O

1968as Samuel Hammock

The Rat Patrol

1966as Capt. Vulcan

S.W.A.T.

1975

The Andromeda Strain

1971as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)

Cagney & Lacey

1982as Judge

The Streets of San Francisco

1972

McMillan & Wife

1971as D. A. Chapman

Dragnet 1967

1967as Capt. Carl Fuller

Hart to Hart

1979

Knots Landing

1979as Henry

The Rookies

1972

Yours, Mine and Ours

1968as Howard Beardsley

Ironside

1967

In This Our Life

1942as Cab Driver (uncredited)

Dallas

1978as Cole Young

Mannix

1967as Bill Kraike

The High Chaparral

1967as Carney

Simon & Simon

1981

North Dallas Forty

1979as Doctor

Black Sunday

1977as Fowler

Charlie's Angels

1976as Mr. Kellerman

Gunsmoke

1955as Capt. Nichols

All Through the Night

1942as Reporter (uncredited)

They Died with Their Boots On

1941as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)

Fun with Dick and Jane

1977as Mr. Weeks

Framed

1975as Sen. Tatum

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1969as Dr. Roy Staples