Walter Burke

Acting

Walter Burke

Born 1908-08-25 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Acting credits

How the West Was Won poster
7.0

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

How the West Was Won

1962

All the King's Men poster
7.0

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.

All the King's Men

1949

The Naked City poster
7.2

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

The Naked City

1948

Support Your Local Sheriff! poster
7.0

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969

Mystery Street poster
6.8

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Mystery Street

1950

Jack the Giant Killer poster
6.6

The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.

Jack the Giant Killer

1962

The Stone Killer poster
6.3

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

The Stone Killer

1973

Chandler poster
4.6

A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

Chandler

1971

Support Your Local Gunfighter poster
6.6

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971

Double Trouble poster
5.0

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Double Trouble

1967

The Wheeler Dealers poster
6.3

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

Stranger on the Run poster
5.7

A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.

Stranger on the Run

1967

The Plainsman poster
5.6

Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.

The Plainsman

1966

The President's Analyst poster
5.9

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.

The President's Analyst

1967

M poster
6.5

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

M

1951

Let No Man Write My Epitaph poster
5.9

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

1960

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze poster
6.0

Phileas Fogg III, great grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, However, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime. This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. Can they make it back to England in time ?

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

1963

The Killer That Stalked New York poster
6.2

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.

The Killer That Stalked New York

1950

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again poster
5.6

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

1970

The Hustler of Muscle Beach poster
5.8

A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat mentally challenged young man who wants to win bodybuilding championships, but needs some help and direction--and the promoter thinks he's just the one to do it.

The Hustler of Muscle Beach

1980

Beauty and the Beast poster
4.7

Curse turns a handsome prince into a Beast at night. A princess tries to help him, while his enemies plot to take his throne.

Beauty and the Beast

1962

Goodnight, My Love poster
7.1

Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

Goodnight, My Love

1972

The Guy Who Came Back poster
6.3

Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.

The Guy Who Came Back

1951

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant poster
4.0

A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey trains the elephant and the two soon become inseparable. When the Colonel loses the elephant in gambling, Davey steals the elephant and begins a 20-mile search for Molly, the rightful owner.

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

1970