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Date of Birth

28 September 1943, San Francisco, California, USA

Date of Death

27 February 1998, La Mesa, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name

James Thomas Patrick Walsh

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Trade Mark

Plays a lot of cowardly bad guys

Trivia

The film, Outside Ozona (1998), was dedicated to his memory.

The Negotiator (1998) was dedicated to the memory of JT

Jack Nicholson dedicated his Best Actor Academy Award (for As Good as It Gets (1997)) to Walsh. [1998]

Discovered by a director in 1974 and began working in off-broadway shows.

Big break in 1984 while working in David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" on broadway.

In just over a decade, he appeared in more than two dozen films.

Was on holiday at time of death.

Graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where he starred as an undergraduate in many college theater productions and was president of Students for a Democratic Society, an organization that grew out of the anti-war movement of the 1960s.

Early jobs included Social worker, encyclopedia salesman, junior high school teacher, and reporter.

Father of John West.

Brother of Christopher Walsh, Patricia Walsh and Mary Walsh.

During childhood he attended a Jesuit boarding school in Ireland.

Pleasantville (1998) was dedicated to the memory of JT, as well as some others.

Dollar for the Dead (1998) (TV) was dedicated to him.

He spoke fluent German.

Early jobs also included tending bar at some of Manhattan's best seafood restaurants.

Hidden Agenda (1998), the last film he shot, was dedicated to his memory.

Before his death, he was hoping to follow the example of Gene Hackman and get away from playing the psychos and cowards he had been typecasted as, playing more complicated and substantial character parts.

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