Walter Brooke
Actor, TV Actor
1914 – 1986
Who was Walter Brooke?
Walter Brooke was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics".
He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke also played several Naval officers a few times in the series McHale's Navy and an unnamed District Attorney in two episodes of Perry Mason: "The Case of the Floating Stones" in 1963, and "The Case of the Wrathful Wraith" in 1965. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71.
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- Born
- Oct 23, 1914
New York City - Spouses
- Yvonne Brooke
( - 1986/08/20)
- Yvonne Brooke
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 20, 1986
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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