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Christopher Walken’s Milestones
| Appeared on live television in the 1950s | |
| Began career as a catalog model with his brothers | |
| Born and raised in the Astoria section of Queens, NY | |
| Occasionally replaced brother Glenn as Mike Bauer on the CBS daytime drama "The Guiding Light" (a role Glenn played from 1954-56) | |
| Trained as a dancer | |
| 1959 | Broadway debut in "J.B." (billed as Ronnie Walken) |
| 1960 | Worked for the summer as an assistant lion tamer with the Tarryl Jacobs Circus |
| 1965 | Cast in the chorus of "Baker Street"; first role billed as 'Christopher' Walken |
| 1966 | Made first appearance with the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park |
| 1968 | Film debut in a bit part in "Me and My Brother" |
| 1971 | Had first significant feature role in "The Anderson Tapes" |
| 1972 | First film in a lead role, "The Happiness Cage" |
| 1974 | Played "Macbeth" at the NYSF's Public Theatre |
| 1975 | Portrayed Chance Wayne to Irene Worth's Alexandra del Largo in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" |
| 1975 | Starred in the stage play "Kid Champion" |
| 1977 | Danced for the first time in a feature in James Ivory's "Roseland" |
| 1977 | Offered memorable cameo as Diane Keaton's brother in "Annie Hall" |
| 1978 | Won an Oscar for his memorable turn as a soldier serving in Vietnam in Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" |
| 1980 | Reteamed with Cimino for the controversial "Heaven's Gate" |
| 1981 | Displayed his dancing abilities to great effect as the oily villain in "Pennies From Heaven" |
| 1984 - 1985 | Co-starred in David Rabe's play about Hollywood "Hurlyburly" |
| 1985 | Portrayed the villain out to destroy Sillicon Valley in the James Bond adventure "A View to a Kill" |
| 1986 | Cast as the father with a criminal past in the downbeat but well-acted "At Close Range"; co-starring Sean Penn and Chris Penn |
| 1986 | Played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival |
| 1988 | Had title role in NYSF's production of "Coriolanus" |
| 1988 | Played the nemesis sergeant to a wisecracking new recruit in the film adaptation of Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" |
| 1989 | Portrayed real-life author Whitley Streiber who claimed to have had encounters with aliens in "Communion" |
| 1990 | First of (to date) four films with director Abel Ferrara, "The King of New York" |
| 1992 | Appeared as the department store owner Max Schreck in "Batman Returns" |
| 1993 | Had a small role pposite Dennis Hopper in "True Romance"; scripted by Quentin Tarantino; his so-called "Sicilian scene" has been hailed by critics as the best scene in the film |
| 1994 | Co-starred in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"; delivering a memorable monologue about a gold watch |
| 1995 | Cast as Gabriel, the evil leader of renegade angels, in "The Prophecy" |
| 1995 | Debut as playwright (also starred) with the one-man, Off-Broadway production "Him" |
| 1996 | Starred as the eldest of three brothers in a crime family in Ferrara's "The Funeral" |
| 1997 | Offered a wildly over-the-top cameo as an exterminator in the comedy "Mouse Hunt" |
| 1997 | Reprised role of Gabriel in the sequel "Prophecy II: Ashtown" |
| 1998 | Offered an over-the-top comedic performance as an effete turn-of-the-century drama critic in John Turturro's "Illuminata" |
| 1998 | Voiced the character of Cutter in the animated "Antz" |
| 1999 | Made third telefilm with Glenn Close, "Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End" (CBS) |
| 1999 | Returned to the NYC stage for the musical "James Joyce's The Dead"; received Tony nomination as Actor in a Musical |
| 2000 | Played an ex-con who gets embroiled in a robbery scheme in "The Opportunists" |
| 2001 | Appeared as a mesmerist in the period drama "Affair of the Necklace" |
| 2001 | Danced in the popular music video "Weapon of Choice"; performed by Fatboy Slim |
| 2001 | Returned to the stage in the Mike Nichols-directed "The Seagull"; presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park |
| 2002 | Played the father of the youngest man to make the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list in "Catch Me If You Can"; received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role |
| 2002 | Portrayed Marcus Porcius Cato in the TNT miniseries "Julius Caesar" |
| 2004 | Cast in the remake of ''The Stepford Wives,'' Bryan Forbes' 1975 cult classic about upper-crust women being replaced by robots with sunny dispositions |
| 2004 | Starred opposite Jack Black and Ben Stiller in the comedy "Envy"; directed by Barry Levinson |
| 2005 | Appeared in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Crashers" starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn |
| 2005 | Cast opposite James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon and Kate Winslet in "Romance & Cigarettes"; helmed by John Turturro (released theatrically in 2007) |
| 2005 | Portrayed a reality TV producer in "Domino" starring Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey, a model turned bounty hunter |
| 2006 | Cast opposite Adam Sandler in the comedy "Click" directed by Frank Coraci |
| 2006 | Cast opposite Robin Williams in Barry Levinson's political comedy "Man of the Year" |
| 2007 | Cast in the remake of John Water's "Hairspray" as Edna Turnblad’s (John Travolta) husband, Wilbur |
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