Christopher Walken - Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice
source=YTChristopher Walken (born Ronald Walken, March 31, 1943)
is certainly an American actor of screen and stage who has appeared in much more than one hundred films and tv shows, such as Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), Correct Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Catch Me ifyouCan(2002), Hairs pray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the extremely initial three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), also as music videos by numerous well-liked recording artists. Walken has received many awards and nominations throughout his profession, like winning the Academy Award for Extremely very best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Nikanor "Nick" Chebotarevich within the Deer Hunter. He was nominated for precisely exactly the same award and won BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his general overall performance as Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me ifyouCan
Walken's films have grossed far more than $1 billion within the United states of america. He has also played the lead within the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Coriolanus. He's a well-liked guest-host of Saturday Evening Reside, getting hosted seven occasions. His most notable roles about the show consist of record producer Bruce Dickinson inside the "More Cowbell" sketch, the double-entendre-named, disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus and, in many appearances, The Continental.
Walken debuted as a film director and scriptwriter using the brief film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted the primary function inside a play about his idol Elvis Presley, titled Him, in 1995.
Early life
Named following actor Ronald Colman, Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943 in Astoria, Queens, New York City. He's the son of Rosalie (née Russell; May 16, 1907 - March 26, 2010), a Scottish emigrant from Glasgow, and Paul Wälken (October five, 1903 - February 23, 2001), who came towards the U.S. from Horst, Germany in 1928. His father owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria. Walken was raised a Methodist
Influenced by their mother's individual dreams of stardom, he and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, had been kid actors on television inside the 1950s. At age 15, when a girlfriend showed him a magazine photo of Elvis, Walken stated, "This guy looked like a Greek god. Then I saw him on tv. I loved every thing about him." He changed his hairstyle to imitate Elvis and hasn't changed it simply because (Robert Schnakenberg (2008). "Christopher Walken A to Z".). As a teenager, he worked as a lion tamer inside a circus. Walken went to Hofstra University, but dropped out following 1 year, obtaining gotten the function of Clayton Dutch Miller in an Off-Broadway revival of Extremely very best Foot Forward, co-starring with Liza Minnelli, who played Ethel Hofflinger. Walken initially educated as a dancer in music theatre within the Washington Dance Studio prior to moving on to dramatic roles in theatre and after that film.
Profession 1950s-1960s
As a kid, Walken appeared on screen as an additional in many anthology series and choice shows throughout the Golden Age of Tv. Following appearing inside a sketch with Martin and Lewis about the Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to turn out to be an actor. He landed a regular function inside the 1953 television show The Fantastic John Acton because the show's narrator. Throughout this time, he was credited as Ronnie Walken.
Much more than the following two years, he appeared often on television (landing a function within the experimental film Me and My Brother) and had a thriving profession in theatre. From 1954 to 1956, Walken and his brother Glenn originated the function of Michael Bauer about the soap opera The Guiding Light. In 1963, he appeared as a character named Chris in an episode of Naked City, starring Paul Burke. In 1966, Walken played the function of King Philip of France within the Broadway premiere from the Lion in Winter. In 1969, Walken guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.
In 1964, he changed his initial name to Christopher within the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had a nightclub act in which Walken was a dancer and who believed the name suited him much better than Ronnie (a pet kind of his provided name, Ronald), which he was credited as till then. He prefers to turn out to be recognized informally as Chris rather than Christopher
1970s
Walken produced his function film debut having a small function opposite Sean Connery in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes. In 1972's The Thoughts Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken played his initial starring function. Inside this science fiction film, which provides with thoughts manage and normalization, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed in Germany.
Paul Mazursky's 1976 film Subsequent Quit, Greenwich Village had Walken, below the name "Chris Walken", playing fictional poet and ladies' man Robert Fulmer. In Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall, Walken played the homicidal and borderline crazy brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Also in 1977, Walken had a minor function as Eli Wallach's companion within the Sentinel. In 1978, he appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in 1976 that costarred Margot Kidder. With each other with Nick Nolte and Burt Reynolds, Walken was regarded as by George Lucas for the element of Han Solo in Star Wars; the component in the end went to Harrison Ford.
In 1977, Walken also starred in an episode of Kojak as Ben Wiley, a robber.
Walken won an Academy Award for Very best Supporting Actor in Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter. He plays a young Pennsylvania steelworker who's emotionally destroyed by the Vietnam War. To help attain his character's gaunt look prior to the third act, Walken consumed only bananas, water, and rice to get a week.
1980s
Walken in 1984 stage play, Hurlyburly
Walken's initial film in the 1980s was the controversial Heaven's Gate, directed by Cimino of Deer Hunter fame. Walken also starred inside the 1981 action adventure The Dogs of War, directed by John Irvin. He surprised numerous critics and filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing striptease in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies from Heaven (1981). In 1982, he played a socially awkward but gifted theater actor inside the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s brief story Who Am I This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon. Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. That exact same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm alongside Natalie Wood and (inside a minor function) his wife, Georgianne.
In 1985, Walken played a James Bond villain, Max Zorin, inside a View to a Kill, Roger Moore's final look as Bond. Walken dyed his hair blond to befit Zorin's origins as a Nazi experiment.
At Close Variety (1986) starred Walken as Brad Whitewood, a rural Pennsylvania crime boss who tries to bring his two sons into his empire; his character was mainly according to criminal Bruce Johnston.
In 1988, Christopher Walken played a memorable function as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues which was directed by Mike Nichols, and also the function of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in Milagro Beanfield War. He also played the top function of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber according to his claims that he and his buddies had been topic to visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as possibly "aliens" or, merely, as "visitors". In 1989, he played the lead function of "Puss" within the Cannon theatre group's musical version of Puss in Boots.
1990s
Walken about the set of Celluloide, 1996
The Comfort of Strangers, an art house film directed by Paul Schrader, attributes Walken as Robert, a decadent Italian aristocrat with intense sexual tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.
King of New York (1990), directed by Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White, lately released from prison and set on reclaiming his criminal territory. In 1991, Walken starred in Sarah, Plain and Tall as Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer. In 1992, Walken played a villain in Batman Returns, millionaire industrialist Max Shreck. Also in 1992, Walken appeared in Madonna's controversial coffee table book SEX as well as the music video for her hit single, "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). He also played Bobby, Cassandra's producer, in Wayne's Globe two.
Walken's subsequent significant film function was opposite Dennis Hopper in Accurate Romance, scripted by Quentin Tarantino. His so-called Sicilian scene has been hailed by critics because the very best scene within the film and can be the topic of four commentaries around the DVD. Walken features a supporting function in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a Vietnam veteran named Captain Koons. He offers his dead comrade's son the family's prized possession-a gold watch-while explaining in graphic detail how he had hidden it in the Vietcong by smuggling it in his rectum following the boy's father, in whose rectum the watch had previously been concealed, had died of dysentery.
Later in 1994, Walken starred inside a Company Affair, a uncommon leading function for him inside a romantic comedy. Walken manages to as quickly as as soon as much more function his trademark dancing scene as he performs the tango. In 1995, he appeared in Issues to finish in Denver When You are Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy as well as the modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which also stars Johnny Depp, and an art home film by David Salle, Search and Destroy. In 1995, Walken acted in "Him," a initial play written by Walken about his idol Elvis inside the afterlife featured inside the New York Shakespeare Festival. (R. Tantich, "Plays and Players," New York, 1995)
Within the 1996 film Final Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic gangster named Hickey. That year, he played a prominent function inside the video game Ripper, portraying Detective Vince Magnotta. Ripper created in depth use of real-time recorded scenes along with a wide cast of celebrities in an interactive film. In 1996 Walken also appeared within the Italian film Celluloide as US Officer Rod Geiger and played the function of Ray inside the Abel Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral. In 1997, Walken starred within the comedy films Touch and Excess Baggage and had a minor function inside the film MouseHunt. He also appeared within the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was also filled with suspense and humor.
In 1998, Walken played an influential gay New York theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata. Exactly the same year he voiced Colonel/General Cutter within the computer-animated Antz film.
In 1999, Walken played Calvin Webber inside the romantic comedy Blast within the Prior. Webber is truly a brilliant but eccentric Caltech nuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear war lead him to create an massive fallout shelter beneath his suburban house. Precisely exactly the same year, he appeared simply because the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Michael Rapaport and Nancy Allen.
Walken also starred in two music videos inside the 1990s. His initial video function was because the Angel of Death in Madonna's 1993 "Bad Girl". The second appear was in Skid Row's "Breakin' Down" video.
2000s
In 2000, Walken was cast because the lead, together with Blair Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead featured music by Shaun Davey, performed by Charles Prince, with music coordination and percussion by Tom Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that year for Extremely very best Book to obtain a Musical.
Walken had a notable music video overall performance in 2001 with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Directed by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in 2001 and-in a list in the leading one hundred videos of all time compiled from a survey of musicians, directors, and music business figures performed by UK music Television channel VH1-won Extremely very best Video of All Time in April 2002. Inside this video, Walken dances and flies about the lobby in the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken also helped choreograph the dance. Also in 2001, Walken played a gangster who was inside the witness protection plan within the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts.
Also in 2001, Walken played Lieutenant Macduff in Scotland, Pa, Billy Morissette's loose film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
In 2002 Walken played Mike within the film Poolhall Junkies and played Frank Abagnale, Sr. in Catch Me Within the occasion you are able to, that is inspired by the story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., a con artist who passed himself off as numerous identities and forged millions of dollars' worth of checks. His portrayal earned him an Academy Award nomination for Extremely very best Supporting Actor. Walken also had a component within the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot. He was nominated to obtain a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 2002's The Nation Bears and in two 2003 films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack. Walken also starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, in which he plays J-Man, a crazy guy who assists Ben Stiller's character, and in his starring function in 2004's Concerning the Bend he once more attributes a dancing scene as he portrays an absentee father who has fled prison to reunite with his father, his son, as well as the grandson he by no means knew prior to dying. Walken played the function of Paul Rayburn in 2004's Man on Fire, precisely exactly where, when speaking concerning the imminent destructive actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A man might be an artist... in some thing, meals, what ever. It depends upon how great he's at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece."
Also in 2004, Walken played Mike within the film The Stepford Wives.
In 2005, he played Mark Heiss inside the film Domino and also the function of Secretary Cleary within the film Wedding Crashers.
In 2006, he played Morty, a sympathetic inventor who's much more than meets the eye, within the comedy/drama Click also as appeared in Man from the Year with Robin Williams and Lewis Black. He co-starred inside the 2007 film adaptation Hairspray, wherein he's noticed singing and dancing inside a romantic duet with John Travolta, and portrayed the eccentric but cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng inside the 2007 comedy action film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler.
Walken was inside the film five Dollars each day (released in 2008), in which he plays a con man proud of living like a king on $5 every day.
The film The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy and Walken about security guards in an art museum, debuted within the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 25, 2009.
Walken also starred in Universal Studios Florida's "Disaster" attraction (formerly "Earthquake as well as the Magic of Effects" and quickly to become Quick & Furious: Supercharged). Walken portrayed the owner of "Disaster Studios" Frank Kincaid and encouraged guests to turn out to be extras in his latest film, Mutha Nature. Walken was projected on a clear screen, a lot like a life-size hologram, and interacted using the live-action talent. Famous quote "Frankenstein by no means scared me".
2010s
Walken returned to Broadway in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010, and received a Tony Award nomination for Very best Overall performance by a Top Actor inside a Play. He had a small voice function in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, inside the "Audition Day" episode. In 2011, he played the function of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns within the film according towards the life of gangster Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman. Walken reunited with McDonagh for the British crime comedy film Seven Psychopaths which had its globe premiere on 7 September 2012. Walken also played the founder and leader of a string quartet inside a Late Quartet (late in 2012).
Walken costarred with Al Pacino and Alan Arkin inside the film Stand Up Guys, a story about aging gangsters out around the town for 1 final hoorah. He also appeared inside the Power of Few.
In December 2012, Walken was selected as a "GQ" Man from the Year. ("Gentlemen's Quarterly." April 2018. p. 24)
In 2013, Walken became the protagonist inside the campaign "Made From Cool" by Jack & Jones. In 2014, he appeared in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo inside the 2014 film Jersey Boys.
In 2014, Walken played Captain Hook inside the NBC production Peter Pan Reside
In 2015, Walken starred within the film When I Reside My Life Much more than As soon as much more and played the function of Clem for the second time within the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt two: Beautiful Loser.
In 2016, he voiced King Louie inside the CGI-live action remake of Disney's The Jungle Book. He also recorded a cover of Louie's song I Wan'na Be like You, which he sings inside the film also as about the soundtrack.
Legacy and popularity
Described as "diverse and eccentric"[ and "one from the most respected actors of his generation", Walken has long established a cult following among film fans. He's known for his versatility and named as 1 of Empire magazine's "Top one hundred Film Stars of All Time". As quickly as dubbed as a "cultural phenomenon", he has portrayed several iconic film characters such as Johnny Smith inside the Dead Zone, Max Shreck in Batman Returns and Max Zorin inside a View to a Kill and was also regarded as for the function of Han Solo in Star Wars films. His Oscar-winning general overall performance within the Deer Hunter ranked as 88th greatest film overall performance of all time by Premiere magazine and his overall performance in Pennies from Heaven was produced into Entertainment Weekly's list in the "100 Greatest Performances that should have won Oscars but didn't". Sometimes regarded as "one from the kings of cameos", Walken has produced numerous notable cameo appearances or appeared inside a single but well-liked scene of films like Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane in Annie Hall, Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow, and Don Vincenzo in Accurate Romance's well-liked "Sicilian scene" which was described by Quentin Tarantino as 1 from the proudest moments in his profession.
Walken's work has been praised and acclaimed by many well-liked figures. Kat Dennings known as him her favorite actor and stated he was the reason she wanted to become an actress. Benicio del Toro cited Walken as an influence and stated that the very best advice he had ever been given regarding acting came from him: "When you are inside a scene and you don't know what you are gonna do, don't do anything." Johnny Depp as quickly as stated one of primary reasons of why he starred in Nick of Time was him wanting to work with Walken. Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Colin Farrell, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio are among actors who spoke about their admiration for Walken. Prominent film critic Roger Ebert was particularly impressed by his villain and anti-hero portrayals, as soon as stated "when he's given the correct function, there is nobody to touch him for his chilling ability to move between easy charm and pure evil" and known as him "one from the few undeniably charismatic male villains."
Walken, with each other having a quantity of " 'serious' actors and respected figures" like Robert De Niro, began to play roles in comedy films, which marked an innovation.
Walken's unique voice has been compared to other entertainment figures with voices that create "a pleasing (or at least entertaining) aural experience," like William Shatner and Garrison Keillor. His voice was parodied inside a Robot Chicken episode.
Walken inspired the stage show, All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Patrick O'Sullivan in Hollywood in 2006. Walken is noted for refusing film roles only rarely, getting stated in interviews that he will decline a function only if he's merely too busy on other projects to take it. He regards every function as a learning experience. A uncommon example of a function Walken turned down was that of Ray Ruby within the film Go Go Tales (2007). According to film director Abel Ferrara, the character was originally written for Walken but the latter "didn't want to do it". The function was then given to Walken's New Rose Hotel (1998) co-star Willem Dafoe.
Appearances on Saturday Evening Reside
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Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire Television series Saturday Evening Reside seven occasions. He's 1 of only two actors (the other being Alec Baldwin) to have a standing offer from Lorne Michaels to host the show whenever his schedule permits. Walken's SNL appearances have proved so well-liked that he's 1 in the few SNL hosts for whom a Very best of... SNL DVD is available (other celebrity hosts who have a Extremely very best of... SNL DVD are Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin), an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members.
1 of Walken's far more famous SNL performances was a spoof of Behind the Music, featuring a recording session of Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper". Within the guise of record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to become confused using the genuine Bruce Dickinson, lead singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhinged speeches towards the band and is obsessed with obtaining "more cowbell" into the song. The phrase "I gotta have much more cowbell" has since been adapted to merchandise. The producer who actually did suggest the cowbell around the original BÖC recording is producer/composer David Lucas.
Walken is also recognized for his component in 1 of Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch's "The Lovers" skits. His character brought a lady friend to meet The Lovers, and she is subjected to learning the past history that Walken's character shares using the Lovers. He also divulges private information about his sex life with his girlfriend, a lot to her horror ("She was willing to accept her lover's body in places no 1 had ever trespassed...specifically, the ear canal").
Walken spoofed his starring function in the Dead Zone (1983) inside a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" (1992). Inside the film Walken's character can predict deaths and catastrophes, whilst Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, trivial future but using the exact exact same emotional intensity as within the film: "You're going to obtain an ice cream headache. It's going to hurt genuine poor, correct here, [touches forehead] for eight, nine seconds.").
His character inside a View to a Kill was parodied inside a sketch titled "Lease with an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his function as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other notable Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that every thing was going wrong for him. His lair was still below construction; his henchmen had jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank lacked sharks, obtaining a giant sea sponge rather. A captive James Bond, portrayed by Phil Hartman, provided to obtain Zorin "a great deal" about the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.
He performed a song and dance rendition from the Irving Berlin standard, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, there was the "Colonel Angus" sketch, laden with ribald double entendres, in which Walken played a dishonored Confederate officer.
Till 2003, Walken had a recurring SNL sketch known as "The Continental", in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot do anything to keep a woman (a neighbor in his apartment building) from giving him the cold shoulder. Though he's outwardly chivalrous, his far more perverted tendencies inevitably drive away his date much more than his pleading objections. For instance, he invites the woman to wash up in his bathroom; as soon as she is inside, it becomes obvious that the bathroom mirror is a two-way mirror when he's noticed lighting up a cigarette. In "The Continental", only the hand of his neighbor is ever noticed; the camera always shows her point of view.
Walken in 2012
The April 5, 2008 Saturday Evening Reside show was the extremely initial time an episode hosted by Walken did not have a "Continental" sketch or a monologue in which he sang and danced. This episode, however, did consist of 1 sketch titled "Meet the Family", which spoofs numerous of Walken's idiosyncrasies. The sketch depicts a fictional Walken family reunion, precisely exactly where all of Christopher's relatives have his mannerisms and speech patterns, and sport his trademark pompadour hairstyle. In order of appear, the other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also attributes a pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a gay relative for whom "flamboyance" means dressing all in black and running his finger about the rim of a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious, and who are hosts of a Nigerian foreign exchange student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson). When he came to reside with them, Oleki-who has absorbed all from the Walken Family traits-could not speak any English. But now (he says) he "talks like a regular teenaged American boy". The biggest laugh from the sketch occurs when Christopher expresses his sympathies for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation. To obtain a Walken, adolescence is a difficult time. You feel like you are the only regular person inside a school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you are lookin' correct into my noggin!" (Will Forte also appears as a waiter within the beginning from the sketch, but does not do a Walken impression.)
Presidential candidacy hoax
Walken became the topic of a hoax controversy in 2006, when a fake website started in August of that year by members of Internet forum Genmay.com announced that he was running for President from the United states of america of america. Some believed it was authentic, till Walken's publicist dismissed the claims. When asked concerning the hoax inside a September 2006 interview with Conan O'Brien, Walken stated he was amused; and when asked to come up getting a campaign slogan, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No Far more Zoos!"
Person life
Walken married Georgianne Walken (née Thon), a casting director, in 1969. She is most notable for The Sopranos. The couple have no children. Walken has stated in interviews that obtaining no children is 1 from the reasons he has had such a prolific film profession. The Walkens have a cat named Bowtie and their prior cat was named Flapjack. The couple lives in Westport, Connecticut and they also have a vacation home on Block Island, Rhode Island.
Walken was 1 from the final persons to see Natalie Wood alive prior to her drowning on November 29, 1981, near Santa Catalina Island, California, whilst on a Thanksgiving weekend boating trip. ] In 2011, Walken hired a lawyer when authorities reopened the Wood case, whilst the LAPD stated, "Walken is not a suspect." The case was closed and termed an accidental death till June 2012, when the investigation was reopened and also the cause of death was changed to "undetermined". Authorities stated that Walken is not a suspect.
