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Walter Brooke

Walter Brooke

Birthday: 1914-10-13 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1981
Separate Ways

as    Lawrence Stevens

1978
The New Adventures of Heidi

as    Cousin Tobias

1977
Beyond Reason

as    Dr. Grovenor

1977
Fun with Dick and Jane

as    Mr. Weeks

1975
Framed

as    Sen. Tatum

1975
Stowaway to the Moon

as    Whitehead

1973
Executive Action

as    Smythe

1972
The Astronaut

as    Tom Everett

1971
The Return of Count Yorga

as    Bill Nelson

1971
A Tattered Web

as    Lt. Preston

1970
Zig Zag

as    Adam Mercer

1969
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

as    Jerry Wolfe

1968
Sergeant Ryker

as    Col. Arthur Merriam

1968
Yours, Mine and Ours

as    Howard Beardsley

1967
The Graduate

as    Mr. McGuire

1966
The Green Hornet

as    Frank P. Scanlon

1961
Bloodlust!

as    Dean Gerrard

1955
Conquest of Space

as    Gen. Samuel T. Merritt