George Spelvin

See also: Alan Smithee, Walter Plinge, David Agnew.
. The one-act play The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang features a main character named George Spelvin. Walken also helped choreograph the dance. Georgina Spelvin has fallen out of general use since it was adopted as a screen name by pornographic actress Dorothy May, who was credited by that name in The Devil in Miss Jones and her subsequent films. In this video, Walken performs a virtuoso tap dance around the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Los Angeles. George Spelvin and Georgina Spelvin are the traditional pseudonyms used in programs in American theatre by actors whose names would otherwise appear twice because they are playing more than one role in a production. It won six MTV awards in 2001 and also won best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time, compiled from a survey of musicians, directors and music industry figures conducted by a UK music TV channel VH1.

Spike Jonze has directed numerous other video clips and films such as Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. Weapon of Choice is a three minute video clip directed by Spike Jonze with music by Fatboy Slim.
. Koons explains just how the watch had been hidden during long years in a prisoner of war camp.

This film, which has received many accolades, contains another frequently quoted cult scene with Walken scripted by Tarantino. Here Walken offers a slightly disturbing but nonethless amusing turn as a Vietnam veteran Captain Koons who in a long speech delivers a watch to a small boy from his dead father.
. After an exchange of dialogue (penned by Quentin Tarantino) Walken's character, Sicilian gangster Vincenzo Coccotti, summarily executes Hopper's character after deliberate provocation by the latter. This scene alone is the subject of four commentaries on the DVD attesting to its cult status.

This so-called 'Sicilian scene' has become a cult favourite and is frequently hailed by critics - professional and amateur alike - as the best scene in the film. Walken plays a scene opposite Dennis Hopper in this film.
. Walken's otherworldly looks and his ability to play vulnerable damaged characters are put to good effect here.

Walken later spoofed his role in a sketch in Saturday Night Live in a sketch titled "Trivial Psychic". The role is currently being reprised by Anthony Michael Hall in a TV series of the same name. Walken plays a school teacher, Johnny Smith, who after lying in a coma for six years awakes to find he has psychic powers.
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He plays Nick, a young working class man with a poetic bent who is destroyed by the experience of war in Vietnam. Walken's perfomance is notable for his transformation from a sensitive, gentle character to a zoned out lost soul, high on drugs and gambling with his life at Russian roulette. Walken won an Oscar for best supporting actor with his performance in this controversial film.
. More general information about each of these films can be found on the individual pages for the films.

Listed in chronological order. His first video role was as Madonna's guardian angel in her 1993 "Bad Girl" video and the second appearance was in Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice video in 2001. He has also starred in two music videos. Another skit for which Walken has become famous was a spoof recording session for Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." Playing a music producer, he repeatedly stopped the recording to request "more cowbell!" This sketch has become a huge cult hit.