- Born
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Tracey Walter was born on November 25, 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Repo Man (1984), Batman (1989) and City Slickers (1991).
- Children
- Long stringy hair and off-putting smile
- Often appears in Jonathan Demme's films
- Often plays bizarre or eccentric types
- Playing Bizarre Lowlifes
- Sometimes confused with fellow character actor William Sanderson, who has sometimes also played the same type of greasy, eccentric Southern lowlifes. Since they have often gone after the same roles, the two actors have actually become friends.
- Although he has made a career out of playing an assortment of rednecks, hillbillies and slow-witted rural Southerners, he was actually born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and raised on the East Coast.
- Was originally considered for the role of the two Darryls' brother Larry on the sitcom Newhart (1982), which went to William Sanderson.
- In 1991, he appeared in films with that year's Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. He played a funeral home director in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and the cook in City Slickers (1991).
- I do not look for films that have weird characters or offbeat characters. An actor brings to a part that he plays the qualities that they, the actor, have. You can't be something that you don't have within yourself.
- I think most actors want to try to do all different genres at least once. Plus, there are a lot of actors, and I'd like to think of myself as one of those actors, who the audience likes to see in different things. They may not even know your name, but if you see him in a film, you say, "Hey! There's what's-his-name!" That's now a legitimate film because that face is in it.
- [on being labeled a character actor] It's a complimentary term. Oh yes, I definitely consider myself one. I've heard from people who send me fan letters saying that whenever they see my name involved in a picture, they know it's going to be a good movie. Character actors give the movie ... a lot of character.
- Goin' South (1978) - $8,000
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