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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 (Film)|A View to A Kill]]'', ''At Close Range'', ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'', [[David Cronenberg]]'s ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', ''[[King of New York]]'', ''[[Batman Returns (Film)|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
His distinctive style of speaking, including random pauses, wild enunciation and a tendency to change voice pitch at random, have made clips from his movies subject to a great deal of [[Memetic Mutation]], and he's probably the third most-imitated actor out there, after [[Sean Connery|Connery]] and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Ahnold]]. ("Diz gai... is un-FUCKING-believable!") He doesn't actually sound much like most of his impersonators. You're still...imagining!...this article...in his illustrious voice! <ref>Good News...Everyone! I just fucked you up!...badly!</ref>
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* ''[[Joe Dirt]]'' - Clem, the [[Almighty Janitor]] who threatens [[Kid Rock]] with a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|soldering iron]]
* ''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'' - "One minute you're huggin' trees. The next, you're chuggin' cock."
* ''[[Scotland, PA]]'' - Lt. McDuff
* ''[[Suicide Kings]]'' - Charlie Barrett
* ''[[King of New York]]'' - Frank White
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* ''[[Balls of Fury]]'' - Feng
* [[Fatboy Slim]]'s "Weapon of Choice" video.
* And being the ''[[One
* ''[[Man On Fire (Film)|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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* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]
* [[One
* [[Rule of Sean Connery]]
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
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