Christopher Walken Biography

Birth of Christopher Walken

Walken makes his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery in Sidney Lumets The Anderson Tapes

Woody Allens 1977 film Annie Hall has Walken playing the suicidal brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton)

Walken wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter

Walken wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter

Walken stars in the action adventure The Dogs of War, directed by Jack Cardiff

Walken plays schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in David Cronenbergs adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone

Walken plays a James Bond villain, Max Zorin, in A View to a Kill

Walken plays the leading role of Whitley Strieber in Communion, an autobiographical film written by Streiber that was based on his claims that he and his family were subject to alien abductions

King of New York, directed by Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White-recently released from prison and set on reclaiming his criminal territory

Walken again plays a supporting villain in Batman Returns as millionaire industrialist Max Shreck

Appears in Waynes World 2

Walken stars in A Business Affair, a rare leading role for him in a romantic comedy

Walken appears in the film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic gangster

Walken plays an influential gay New York theater critic in John Turturros film Illuminata

Wallken appears in Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John. Walken plays Calvin Webber in the romantic comedy Blast from the Past. Appears in Sleepy Hollow. Appears in Pulp Fiction

Appears in Catch Me if You Can

Appears in Man on Fire. Appears in Around the Bend

Appears in Man of the Year. Appears in Hairspray