Walt Gorney

Walt Gorney

Born: April 12, 1912
Died: March 5, 2004
in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Character actor Walt Gorney was born on April 12, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. He came to the United States of America when he was ten years old and lived with his family in Massachusetts, USA. In 1946, Gorney moved to an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York City, USA. Gorney appeared in a handful of movies in minor roles; he was usually cast as bums or average working class types. With his lean, stringy build, gaunt face, croaky voice, and intense off center movie/film presence, Gorney was perfectly cast as local town eccentric and grim prophet of doom, Crazy Ralph in the horror classic Friday the 13th (1980). He returned as Crazy Ralph in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and did the opening narration for Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988). Outside of his regrettably sparse movie credits, Walt had a long and respectable career acting on the stage. Gorney was a member of the theatrical group, the Provincetown Players in the early 1950s.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders

Movies for Walt Gorney...

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Title: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Character: Opening Narrator (voice)
Released: May 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave.
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Seize the Day
Title: Seize the Day
Character: Panhandler
Released: September 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Title: Nothing Lasts Forever
Character: Stage Manager
Released: September 6, 1984
Type: Movie
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Title: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Character: Crazy Ralph (archive footage)
Released: April 13, 1984
Type: Movie
After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Monahan's Security Guard
Released: August 19, 1983
Type: Movie
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
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Trading Places
Title: Trading Places
Character: Duke Domestic
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Endless Love
Title: Endless Love
Character: Passerby
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Parental disapproval of two teenagers wrapped up in a passionate love affair causes a confusion of arson, death and insanity.
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Friday the 13th Part 2
Title: Friday the 13th Part 2
Character: Crazy Ralph
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.
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Friday the 13th
Title: Friday the 13th
Character: Crazy Ralph
Released: May 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
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Nunzio
Title: Nunzio
Released: May 10, 1978
Type: Movie
A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, and general confusion about women and his burgeoning desires for them.
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Day of the Animals
Title: Day of the Animals
Character: Sam
Released: May 13, 1977
Type: Movie
The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Subway Driver
Released: September 8, 1976
Type: Movie
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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Cops and Robbers
Title: Cops and Robbers
Character: Wino
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
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Heavy Traffic
Title: Heavy Traffic
Character: Bum (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1973
Type: Movie
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
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Friday the 13th: Watchtower
Title: Friday the 13th: Watchtower
Character: Ralph O’Connell (archive footage and audio)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After a turning point in his life, Devon Parker, a 23 year old college dropout, takes up a job offering as a fire lookout for a rundown Camp Crystal Lake, and the surrounding forest. Haunted by legends of killers, fires and missing people, Devon is stalked by a force that’s been hiding in the abandoned Camp. One that’s been waiting for the last 40 years for fresh blood.