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{{quote|''"I make films that no one sees. I've made films that I myself have not seen."''}}
'''Christopher Walken''' (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award winning American actor of stage and screen, in a career spanning more than 50 years. A prolific actor, he has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, notably including ''[[A View to a Kill]]'', ''At Close Range'', ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'', [[David Cronenberg]]'s ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', ''[[King of New York]]'', ''[[Batman Returns]]'', ''[[True Romance]]'', ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'' and ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', as well as music videos by recording artists such as Madonna and Fatboy Slim.
Walken appeared as the [[Archangel Gabriel]] in the first three ''[[The Prophecy (film)|Prophecy]]'' movies, as well as his frequent guest-host appearances on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (seven in all, though six of them [the ones from 1990 to 2003] have his recurring sketch "The Continental" and all six of them have monologues in which Walken sings and dances; the one from the [[Writers Strike]]-shortened 33rd season has neither of these), his most notable being ''[[Spell My Name with a "The"|The]]'' Bruce Dickinson in the ''[[Memetic Mutation|"More Cowbell"]]'' sketch and [[Casanova Wannabe]] The Continental ([[Weird Al Effect|based on an actual TV character from an obscure 1950s show; but most people wouldn't know that]]). In the United States, films featuring Walken have grossed over $1.8 billion. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays ''Hamlet'', ''Macbeth'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', and even ''Coriolanus''. Famous film roles were Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich in ''The Deer Hunter'' (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) and in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', as Captain Koons, a Vietnam War veteran, which has since become a pop culture icon, [[One-Scene Wonder|despite his appearance being less than five minutes in length]] (many of his roles probably count for being "best thing in the movie"). In fact, his prolific film appearances relate to his own policy of ''never'' turning down film roles unless he's too busy, finding that each and every role is a learning experience. One can only wonder what he learned from ''[[Gigli]]''...
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A former professional dancer, which he got to show off in the 2007 rendition of ''[[Hairspray]]'', as well as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEyY6LEUWUw the aforementioned Fatboy Slim video], which consists solely of him dancing in an empty hotel.
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* ''[[The Anderson Tapes]]'', his film debut. He gets an "Introducing..." in the credits playing "The Kid"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuDmxYJ1AM ("America, man! It's so beautiful I want to eat it!")]
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* ''[[Man on Fire]]'' - Rayburn. ("A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.")
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]
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