Walken to His Movie Death Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Deer Hunter

Walken won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role as Nick Chevotarevich in "The Deer Hunter" and this scene is widely known as one of his best and most compelling scenes in Walken movie history.
This movie follows three Pennsylvania steelworkers to the Vietnam war and back, showing the emotional and physical scars left behind by their experiences in a Vietcong prison camp.

Answer: The Prophecy

In all of these movies Walken plays Gabriel "The Angel of Death". "The Prophecy" also stars Elias Koteas and Virginia Madsen and was a 1995 cult hit. Walken also played two other very strange chracters in 1995 in the movies "Wild Side" and "Things to do in Denver When You're Dead".
"The Prophecy" follows the Archangel Gabriel as he wages a war on Heaven and needs to steal the evil soul of a U.S. Army general, which has found its way into the body of a little girl.

Answer: A View to a Kill

All of these are "James Bond" movies but "A View to a Kill" is the only one with Walken as the villain. Grace Jones is also in this movie as Max Zorin's henchwoman May Day. Also it is one of the last Bond movies starring Roger Moore.
James Bond investigates a attempt to destroy Silicon Valley with a massive earthquake, thereby winnowing down the world's supply of microchips.

Answer: Batman Returns

This was the sequel of the Michael Keaton "Batman" movies directed by Tim Burton and featured well known Batman characters the Penquin and Catwoman. This role was a dream come true for Walken, who read Batman comics as a child.
"Batman Returns" has Batman up against the Penquin as he tries to take over Gotham City while building up his criminal organization. Catwoman also has her own agenda as she plans to take revenge on the sinister Gotham City industrialist Max Shreck, as played by Christopher Walken.

Answer: The Anderson Tapes

These are all Sean Connery movies and this movie was also Connery's first big post-Bond role, as well as Walken's major studio debut. Walken had previously appeared in the low budget Indie release "Me and My Brother" in 1969.
In "The Anderson Tapes", Walken plays an unnamed character known as The Kid, who assists Connery in a scheme to burglarize a luxury apartment building in New York City.

Answer: The Stepford Wives

All these movies are considered by most people to be Walken's worst or least well known movies. "The Stepford Wives" is a comedy remake of a 1975 horror movie.
"The Stepford Wives" is set in a tweedy Connecticut town where all the women have been replaced by cheery and eerily efficient robots.

Answer: The Funeral

Walken has played many gangsters in his movie career and quite a few of them have been directed by Abel Ferrara. Walken has said about this movie, "It's a different type of gangster movie. Nobody's particularly sexy or intelligent or romantic or brave or resourceful. There's nothing particularly glamorous about these particular gangsters, which is probably more like the truth."
"The Funeral" is set in Depression-era New York City and follows the violent Tempio family as they deal with a sudden death of one of its members.

Answer: The Rundown

Walken plays a ruthless walking boss of an Amazon gold mine in this action epic. The movie was originally called "Helldorado".
Walken plays the heartless tycoon who stands in the way of Beck, a musclebound bounty hunter who travels to South America to retrieve a billionaire's wayward son, played by Sean William Scott.

Answer: The Eternal

All of these are horror movies Christopher Walken appeared in except for "The Omen". With the huge success of the movie "The Exorcist" film makers tried to equal that success with movies like "The Sentinel" and "The Omen". "The Addiction" is another Walken movie directed by Abel Ferrara.
Allison Elliot stars as Nora, an Irish expatriate turned American alcoholic, who goes on a trip with her husband to see her old Irish relatives. Walken plays Nora's Uncle Bill. The Druid mummy in his basement comes to life and starts to kill everyone in its path.

Answer: New Rose Hotel

"New Rose Hotel" marks Walken's fourth collaboration with director Abel Ferrara. It is a neo-noir adaptation of a short story by Science Fiction writer William Gibson. Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe are known as two of the most volatile actors in the business and are often compared to each other in their acting styles.
"New Rose Hotel" follows corporate pirates X(Willem Dafoe) and Fox (Walken) as they hatch a plan to make a brilliant geneticist jump from one global multinational to another.