That same year, Walken received a warmer reception for his starring role in The Dogs of War, playing a mercenary mixed up with an African dictator. Costing more than $40 million to make, the film was savaged by the critics and earned little at the box office. The Western historical drama proved to be one of the most legendary flops of all time. Walken followed up his performance in The Deer Hunter as the star in Cimino's next effort, Heaven's Gate (1980). In the comedic film, he played Duane, the offbeat, neurotic brother of the Diane Keaton title character. His breakthrough role came six years later with his memorable turn in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977). He had a supporting part in 1971's The Anderson Tapes, with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon. On the Big Screenīy the early 1970s, Walken had begun working in film. For his efforts, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Walken's character goes through a brutal transformation during the course of the movie, starting out as a laid-back steelworker and ending as a man tormented by memories of his time in a prisoner-of-war camp. Directed by Michael Cimino, the film followed the impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends from a small town.
Walken delivered a gut-wrenching performance in 1978's The Deer Hunter, co-starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. He then appeared in Peter Ustinov's The Unknown Soldier and His Wife in 1967. That same year, Walken had a small role in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo. He played King Philip of France in the original production of James Goldman's historical drama, The Lion in Winter, with Rosemary Harris and Robert Preston in 1966. Now I wish I'd picked a shorter name because when I see my name in print, it looks like a freight train," he told The Hollywood Reporter.After appearing in the chorus in Baker Street in 1965, Walken was asked to try out for a dramatic part. "A lady in the act said she wanted me to be called Christopher, and I said, 'Fine.'. Early in his career, he changed his first name from Ronny to Christopher while performing in a nightclub act. During a tour of West Side Story, he met actress Georgianne Thon, who later became his wife. Around the age of 18, he started working in theater, first landing roles in musicals because of his earlier studies.
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Walken attended the famed Professional Children's School, geared toward students in the performing arts. At the age of 10, he got a chance to work with comedian Jerry Lewis as an extra in a television skit. "They used a lot of kids more or less as furniture," Walken later told Entertainment Weekly. Sometimes they landed work as extras to make some pocket money. There they would hang out at Rockefeller Center in Midtown where many of the television shows were shot. The son of a baker, Walken would often leave his neighborhood in Queens and head to Manhattan with his brothers. You'd learn ballet, tap, acrobatics, usually, you'd even learn to sing a song," he later explained to Interview magazine. "It was very typical for people - and I mean working-class people - to send their kids to dancing school. A performer since the age of 3, Walken started out as a dancer, taking lessons as a child. Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943, in Queens, New York. Walken has taken on a variety of projects that include everything from the Steven Spielberg drama Catch Me If You Can (for which he earned another Oscar nomination) to the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice." Early Life In 1991, he gained his first Emmy Award nomination for his work on Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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His breakthrough part came with Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), and he went on to win an Academy Award for his role in 1978's The Deer Hunter, cultivating a full body of work in the '80s.
Christopher Walken began working in the theater in his late teens, and by the early 1970s, he had begun working in film.
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