Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken, March 31, 1943) is an American actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Vendetta (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Joe Dirt (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the first three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), and Irreplaceable You (2018). He has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter.
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Popularity145
Credits6.3
Rating63.9M
Budget245M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 That's Amore!
2024 From Roger Moore with Love as Self
2024 Dune: Part Two as Emperor
2022 Severance as Burt Goodman
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020 Wild Mountain Thyme as Tony Reilly
2020 Percy as Percy Schmeiser Executive Producer
2020 The War with Grandpa as Jerry
2020 Showbiz Kids as Self (archive footage)
2019 QT8: The First Eight as Self (archive footage)
2019 The Jesus Rolls as Warden
2019 Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self
2019 Music Videos That Defined the 00’s as Self (archive footage)
2018 Trumbull Land as Self (archive footage)
2018 Talking with the Vampires
2018 Irreplaceable You as Myron
2017 Father Figures as Dr. Walter Tinkler
2016 Nine Lives as Felix Perkins
2016 The Family Fang as Caleb Fang
2016 One More Time as Paul Lombard
2016 The Jungle Book as King Louie (voice)
2016 Eddie the Eagle as Warren Sharp
2015 Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser as Clem
2014 Peter Pan Live! as Captain Hook
2014 Jersey Boys as Angelo 'Gyp' DeCarlo
2014 Turks & Caicos as Curtis Pelissier
2013 Gods Behaving Badly as Zeus
2013 Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love as Self
2013 The Power of Few as Doke
2013 Discord and Harmony: Creating a Late Quartet as Self
2012 Stand Up Guys as Doc
2012 A Late Quartet as Peter Mitchell
2012 Cooking with Christopher Walken as Himself
2012 Seven Psychopaths as Hans Kieslowski
2012 Dark Horse as Jackie
2012 Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
2011 Kill the Irishman as Shondor Birns
2010 The Women of SNL as Various (archive footage)
2010 Life's a Beach as Roy Callahan
2009 The Maiden Heist as Roger Barlow
2009 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler as Self (archive footage)
2008 $5 a Day as Nat Parker
2008 Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride... Starring You! as Frank Kincaid
2007 Balls of Fury as Feng
2007 Hairspray as Wilbur Turnblad
2006 Man of the Year as Jack Menken
2006 Click as Morty
2006 Fade to Black as Brewster
2005 Domino as Mark Heiss
2005 Romance & Cigarettes as Cousin Bo
2005 Wedding Crashers as Secretary Cleary
2005 Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' as Self
2004 Around the Bend as Turner Lair
2004 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Christopher Walken
2004 The Stepford Wives as Mike Wellington
2004 Envy as J-Man
2004 Man on Fire as Paul Rayburn
2003 The Work of Director Spike Jonze as Self
2003 The Rundown as Hatcher
2003 Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary as Self
2003 Gigli as Det. Stanley Jacobellis
2003 Kangaroo Jack as Salvatore 'Sal' Maggio
2002 Catch Me If You Can as Frank Abagnale
2002 Undertaking Betty as Frank Featherbed
2002 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell as Bruce Dickinson (archive footage)
2002 The Country Bears as Reed Thimple
2002 Poolhall Junkies as Uncle Mike
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Count Cagliostro
2001 America's Sweethearts as Hal Weidmann
2001 The Continental: Anticipation as The Continental
2001 Joe Dirt as Clem
2001 Scotland, PA as Lieutenant McDuff
2000 Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self
2000 The Opportunists as Vic Kelly
2000 The Prophecy 3: The Ascent as Gabriel
1999 Kiss Toledo Goodbye as Max
1999 Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End as Jacob Witting
1999 Sleepy Hollow as Hessian Horseman
1999 Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 as Guardian Angel (segment "Bad Girl") (archive footage)
1999 Vendetta as James Houston
1999 New Rose Hotel as Fox Co-Producer
1999 Blast from the Past as Calvin
1998 Antz as Colonel Cutter (voice)
1998 The Eternal as Uncle Bill Ferriter
1998 Illuminata as Bevalaqua
1998 The Prophecy II as Gabriel
1997 MouseHunt as Caesar
1997 Suicide Kings as Carlo Bartolucci
1997 Excess Baggage as Ray
1997 Touch as Bill Hill
1996 Last Man Standing as Hickey
1996 Basquiat as The Interviewer
1996 Wild Side as Bruno Buckingham
1996 Celluloide as Rod Geiger
1996 The Funeral as Ray Tempio
1995 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead as The Man with the Plan
1995 Nick of Time as Mr. Smith
1995 The Addiction as Peina
1995 The Prophecy as Gabriel
1995 Search and Destroy as Kim Ulander
1994 Pulp Fiction as Captain Koons
1994 A Business Affair as Vanni Corso
1993 Wayne's World 2 as Bobby Cahn
1993 True Romance as Vincenzo Coccotti
1993 Scam as Jack Shanks
1993 Skylark as Jacob Witting
1992 The Big Pardon 2 as Pasco Meisner
1992 Mistress as Warren Zell
1992 Batman Returns as Max Shreck
1991 All-American Murder as P.J. Decker
1991 McBain as McBain
1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall as Jacob Witting
1990 The Comfort of Strangers as Robert
1990 King of New York as Frank White
1990 Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1989 Communion as Whitley Strieber
1988 Homeboy as Wesley Pendergass
1988 Puss in Boots as Puss
1988 Biloxi Blues as Sgt. Toomey
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War as Kyril Montana
1987 Deadline as Don Stevens
1986 At Close Range as Bradford "Brad" Whitewood Sr.
1985 A View to a Kill as Max Zorin
1985 Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1983 The Dead Zone as Johnny Smith
1983 Brainstorm as Michael Brace
1982 Who Am I This Time? as Harry Nash
1981 Pennies from Heaven as Tom
1980 The Dogs of War as Jamie Shannon
1980 Heaven's Gate as Nathan D. Champion
1979 Last Embrace as Eckart
1978 The Deer Hunter as Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich
1978 Shoot the Sun Down as Mr. Rainbow
1977 Roseland as Russel
1977 Annie Hall as Duane Hall
1977 The Sentinel as Det. Rizzo
1976 Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Robert Fulmer
1975 Valley Forge
1972 The Mind Snatchers as Pvt. James H. Reese
1971 The Anderson Tapes as The Kid
1970 Cleopatra as Boy
1969 Me and My Brother
1966 Barefoot in Athens as Lamprocles
1956 The Boy Who Saw Through as Ernest
8.40 Unknown 1
6.91 TV Movie 10
6.84 Music 14
6.61 Documentary 15
6.59 History 6
6.52 Animation 2
6.37 Family 12
6.25 Crime 27
6.23 Drama 68
6.22 Science Fiction 7
6.15 Adventure 11
6.09 Thriller 32
6.06 Fantasy 14
6.05 Western 3
6.02 Romance 25
6.00 Action 21
5.91 Comedy 59
5.90 Horror 11
5.80 War 4
5.79 Mystery 12