J.T. Walsh Enters Hall Of Fame!

If you grew up rewinding VHS tapes, you should be very fond of this man.  Brilliant character actor J.T. Walsh was a 1990’s staple, many movies would not have been the same without him.  He enters the Manly Movie Hall of Fame!

I’ll tell you, nobody played a villain like J.T. fuckin’ Walsh.

You can have your heroes, the good guys who become box office stars.  But what use is it if they don’t have a sneering villain to bounce off of?  Behind every protagonist, there’s a great antagonist.  Walsh may have been typecast to a degree, but would you have had him any other way?

Remember him in Breakdown, for example.  Gosh, what a fucking villain.  So good, that you’d almost root for him.  I also like the fact that Walsh wasn’t afraid to play a coward either.  If needed to, he could easily play that sneering, snivelling cowardly bitch (see Narrow Margin).  And this made him all the better!  Real manly actors don’t give a shit if they look weak.

I was going to do a top five J.T. Walsh breakdown but realized, man, I have to admit there are a few of his movies I haven’t seen.  Suggestions?

Raise a glass for this legend.