Is Mars Callahan the son of Christopher Walken?

Question

Just recently watched the movie Poolhall Junkies, which Mars wrote, directed, and starred in and also starred Christopher Walken. A comment that Walken made in the movie about them being related stuck with me. Just their stride, the way they both speak, and their looks got me wondering. Can't find any info on the net.

Answer 1

I have searched through the years.. and have NEVER found that Christopher and his wife Georgianne ever had children.. Christoher was one of 3 children growing up.

Christopher Walken is one of the weirdest American actors, with unmistakably stoic mannerisms, delivery, and voice, and a face that seems to hold no emotion, or all emotions. He shot to fame playing Russian roulette in The Deer Hunter.

Walken's parents were both immigrants. His father, a baker from Germany, ran Walken's Bakery in Queens. His mother, an amateur actress from Scotland, gave up her own on-stage ambitions, but noticed there were opportunities in New York for cute children as models, and in TV shows and commercials. Mr. and Mrs. Walken had three cute children, Christopher, Kenneth, and Glenn, and their paychecks helped the family make ends meet. All three appeared on television shows, on Broadway, and in the movies, but only Christopher made it his career.

Young Christopher, or "Ronnie Walken", as he was often credited, was a dancer at first. In those days, most of TV's many variety shows featured dancing, and Walken worked with Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Sid Caesar, Jerry Lewis, and other giants of that era. As a boy, Walken was off-stage, watching Lewis perform live on television, when he decided he would be a performer all his life.

Walken made his Broadway debut at 15 in 1958, playing a lion tamer and working with a live lion in J.B., directed by Elia Kazan. He went to Hofstra University, but dropped out after a year when he was cast opposite Liza Minnelli in the play Best Foot Forward. In 1964, he appeared in a Broadway production of High Spirits directed by Noel Coward. His film debut was in Me and My Brother (1968), with Allen Ginsberg, in which Walken borrowed his father's German accent and shouted directions to an actor auditioning to play a catatonic-schizophrenic.

At some point, Walken developed an aversion to traditional punctuation. He's said that he would sometimes cross out punctuation marks in textbooks, and he still crosses out punctuation in his scripts today. Instead, he's explained that he reads scripts and speaks his lines with a dancer's cadence in his mind, sort of vocally "dancing" the lines. The words come out in Walken's signature style, often parodied by impressionists, to Walken's own delight.

In 1969, while in a touring production of West Side Story, Walken met and married another dancer, Georgianne Thon. She is now a Hollywood casting director, whose name is in the credits for several movies every year, as well as in The Sopranos.

In 1981, while filming the underrated science fiction film Brainstorm, Walken was invited aboard a yacht with his co-star Natalie Wood and her husband Robert Wagner. Off the coast of Catalina Island, Wood fell overboard and drowned. Rumors of foul play or a love triangle of Wagner, Walken and Wood have persisted, but Walken says the truth is much sadder and more boring, as accidents usually are. She simply slipped.

Walken's other famous roles include the dancing pimp in Pennies from Heaven, the man with visions in The Dead Zone, Whitley Strieber, abducted by aliens in Communion, the soulless mobster in King of New York, a lonely farmer in Sarah, Plain and Tall, the part that didn't suck in Batman Returns, the mobster who laughed at Dennis Hopper's insults in True Romance, the angel Gabriel in The Prophecy, the slimeball record producer in Wayne's World 2, a soldier with a watch up his *** in Pulp Fiction, The Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow, and a man with a plan in The Stepford Wives.

Father: Paul Walken (baker, d. Feb-2001)
Mother: Rosalie Walken (baker)
Brother: Kenneth Walken (child actor)
Brother: Glenn Walken (child actor)
Wife: Georgianne Thon Walken (casting director, The Sopranos, m. 1969)

High School: Professional Children’s School, Manhattan, NY (1961)
University: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (dropout)

Oscar for Best Supporting Actor 1979 for The Deer Hunter
German Ancestry Paternal
Scottish Ancestry Maternal

Answer 2

Mars Callahan

Answer 3

Georgianne Thon

Answer 4

I thought he was an eastwood! he is tall and lanky like clint has squinty eyes and the same hair! mef clis mannerisms too who knows?

Answer 5

No but Cillian Murphy could be!

Answer 6

I don't think so... In fact i know that they aren't related.. okay...

Answer 7

That is correct

Answer 8

NO, HE IS NOT!!! BUT HE WAS VERY GOOD LOOKING IN THE MOVIE POOLHALL JUNKIES FOR SURE!!!

Answer 9

very good question