M Emmet Walsh, actor best known for his grizzled roles in Blade Runner and Blood Simple – obituary

M Emmet Walsh, who has died aged 88, was a steadfast character actor adored among cinephiles for the notes of scuffed-up life he gifted American film over his six-decade career, most memorably in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) and the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple (1984).