Manages to insert a little dance number into nearly all of his roles, no matter how small, scripted or not.
Won an MTV Video Music Award for choreographing his own moves in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice."
Member of "Saturday Night Live" (1975)'s prestigious "Five Timers Club".
At the begining of The Dead Zone (1983) he tells his class to read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". 16 Years later he plays The Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow (1999).
Met wife, casting agent Georgianne Walken (née Thon), while touring with West Side Story.
Has an intense dislike of handguns.
Along with Alec Baldwin, he has a standing invitation to host "Saturday Night Live" (1975) every year (if scheduling permits).
When hosting "Saturday Night Live" (1975), he likes to sing during his monologues (which has become a crowd pleasing favorite).
Is only the second person in history to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actor from the Oscars, for Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Worst Supporting Actor from the Razzies, for The Country Bears (2002) in the same year. The first was James Coco, who was actually nominated for both awards for the same role in Only When I Laugh (1981).
Danced with Judy Garland at Liza Minnelli's sixteenth birthday party
The son of a baker.
In his 35 years in film, he has acting in well over 90 films. He rarely turns down a part, under the belief that making movies (whether they turn out good or bad) is always a rewarding experience.
Has said that his adopted name of "Christopher" sounds "like a sneeze", and he prefers to be called Chris.
At the time of filming The Rundown (2003), he had never seen the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), and was therefore reluctant to use the phrase "Oompah Loompah" in his final scene. When learning of this, director Peter Berg gave him a copy of the film, and he finally decided to use the phrase.
Has played 3 different characters with the name Max in Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999), Batman Returns (1992) and A View to a Kill (1985).
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