He was never a big star, but there is a rule in movies called the Stanton-Walsh Rule which states that no movie in which M Emmet Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton appears will be ever completely bad.

One of the greatest character actors who has ever lived, M. Emmet Walsh spent more than 50 years carving out a career as a reliable supporting player across well over 200 movie and TV projects.

So said the late, great M Emmet Walsh about the gallery of ... policing could hardly be more of a seedy business. Walsh played hundreds of film and TV roles, and gave them all this kind of value.