Biography
Christopher Walken (born march 31, 1943) is an American Academy Award and BAFTA-Award winning stage and screen actor. He has also won the American Comedy Awards and many others as well as being nominated for other awards for his performance.
He has been in show business for decades and is best known both as the villain and the comedian. Some of his best known movies are A View to a Kill, At Close Range, The Deer Hunter, True Romance, Catch Me If You Can, Pulp Fiction, King of New York and Batman Returns. He is also known for his artistic dancing rendering and has been in music videos by recording artists such as Madonna and Fat Boy Slim.
Early Life
Christopher was born and raised with his two brothers Kenneth and Glenn in Astoria, Queens in New York . His parents named him Ronald Walken after they’re favorite actor, Ronald Colman. His mother, Rosalie, born in 1907, emigrated from Scotland and worked as a window dresser and his father, Paul Walken, an immigrant from Germany was a baker. 
Rosalie had stage ambitions witch the experience’d through her three boys who started there career by modeling. Christopher’s (Ronald’s) first major success came when he was only 14-month-old, he was photographed naked with 2 cats, appearing in a hugely popular calendar.
During the Golden Age of Television in the early 50´s Christopher started appearing on the screen as an child actor along with his brothers under the influence from they’re mother who had her own dreams of stardom. Walken was an extra on a show called The Colgate Comedy Hour where Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin were guest hosts. After doing a skit with Lewis he decided to make show business his career.
A classic clip from the Comedy Hour
As a child he appeared as an extrain numerous anthology series and variety shows. In 1953 he landed a regular role in television as the show’s narrator in The Wonderful John Acton. At that time he was credited as “Ronnie Walken”. Over the next 20 years he appeared frequently on television and had a thriving career in theatre.
Christopher wanted to be a dancerfirst of all so he attended at Hofstra University on Long Island, were he learnt dancing and stage craft. He did not graduate from Hofstra but that did not influence his amazingly versatile stage and screen talents.
1970s
Chris made his film debut in The Anderson Tapes (1971), were he played a small role opposite Sean Connery. He had his first starring role the year after in the science fiction film The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage. He plays a sociopathic American soldier stationed in Germany where a crazy scientist is working on implants to control the soldiers mind’s.
After being on several television shows like Barefoot in Athens, Valley Forge and Hallmark Hall of Fame he played a part in the romantic comedy drama film, Next Stop, Greenwich Village Chris plays Robert, a fictional poet and ladies man who is one of the eccentric bunch of characters in the movie. The film is semiautobiographical account of director Paul Mazursky’s move to Greenwich Village in 1953 to become an actor. The movie was nominated for 2 Golden Globes in 1976.
He played the detective in the horror film The Sentinel in 1977 that was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Horror Movie and had a part in an episode in the crime series Kojak the same year.
Chris played a small but intense part as the suicidal brother in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977), a romantic comedy film about a couple played by Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. The film chronicles their attempt over several years to maintain a relationship despite their differences. The film won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards.
In the dance and musical Roseland (1977), Walken playes a dancer in search of the right partner. The year after he starred in a western, Shoot the Sun Down that costarred Margot Kidder. Director David Leeds casted Chris after he saw his performances in Next Stop, Greenwich Village.
Walken won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film The Deer Hunter (1978). He plays a young steelworker who is emotionally destroyed by the Vietnam War. To help achieve a gaunt appearance for the role, Walken ate nothing but bananas and rice for a week. The movie portrayed a different view of the war and the people of Vietnam that many feel offensive and protested by walking out of the theatre.
The deaths of approximately twenty-eight people who died playing Russian roulette were reported as having been influenced by scenes in the movie.
1980s
Walken’s first film of the 1980’s was Heaven’s Gate, a western movie where he costarred with Jeff Bridges and Kris Kristofferson. Director Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) was controversial and the movie was not a success. Walken starred in the action adventure The Dogs of War in 1981.
Walken surprised many with his intricate tap-dancing striptease in Herbert Ross’s musical Pennies From Heaven. In 1983 Walken then played a schoolteacher who turn’s psychic after being in a coma for almost five years. He is Johnny Smith in a movie based on Stephen King’s novel The Dead Zone. That same year, he also starred in the movie Brainstorm alongside Natalie Wood as well as his wife, Georgianne.
In 1985, Walken played the villain Max Zorin in James Bond A View to a Kill. He dyed his hair blond to befit Zorin’s origins as a Nazi experiment. In 1988 Walken played the role of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in Milagro Beanfield War. He played the leading role in 1989’s Communion, an autobiographical film written by Whitley Strieber that was based on his claims that he and his family were subject to alien abductions.
Walken starred as Brad Whitewood in At Close Range, a rural crime boss who tries to bring his two sons into his empire. His character is mostly based on Bruce Johnston.
In Biloxi Blues, Walken convincingly played an eccentric drill sergeant known for his stinging sarcasm and sharp wit, not dissimilar to his real life talents.
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