Veteran actor M Emmet Walsh, who starred in Blade Runner and Knives Out, has died aged 88.

The Americanstar died from a cardiac arrest on Tuesday at Kerbs Memorial Hospital in St Albans, Vermont, a press release from his supervisor confirmed.

During his six-decade profession, Walsh performed quite a lot of roles, together with Harrison Ford’s LAPD boss in Sir Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner.

He performed an unscrupulous non-public detective in Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple two years later, for which he would win the primary Film Independent Spirit Award for finest male lead.

He additionally performed Dermot Mulroney’s father in My Best Friend’s Wedding, which additionally starred Julia Roberts, and Dustin Hoffman’s belligerent parole officer in Straight Time.

Film critic Roger Ebert as soon as noticed that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad”.

Born Michael Emmet Walsh, his physique of labor consists of 119 movies and 250 TV productions, with current roles together with enjoying an aged safety guard in Rian Johnson’s 2019 murder-mystery comedy Knives Out, which starred Daniel Craig.

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Johnson was amongst these paying tribute, writing on X: “Emmet got here to set with 2 issues: a replica of his credit, which was a small-type single spaced double column listing of recent classics that crammed a complete web page, & two-dollar payments which he handed out to your entire crew.

“‘Don’t spend it and you’ll never be broke.’ Absolute legend.”