Happy birthday, Christopher Walken: Still going strong at 78

Walken presented the Oscar for best original score during the 90th annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018.

He was a pitch man too. In a 2016 Super Bowl ad Walken likened Kia's midsize Optima sedan to a pair of socks.

Walkenvisited"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" at Rockefeller Center in 2014.

Ahoy, mateys! He starredas Captain Hook, right, in "Peter Pan Live!"in 2014.

In the 2014motion picture "Jersey Boys," Walken, right, was seen with Steven R. Schirripa, left, and John Lloyd Young.

He and his wife, casting director Georgianne Walken, attended the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival Party on April 16, 2013, in New York. The couple have been married52 years.

Now this was a whole bunch of acting experience. From left, Walken, Alan Arkin and Al Pacino shared a scene in 2012's "Stand Up Guys."

It seemedlike typecasting to enlist Walken for a movie titled "Seven Psychopaths," then you got a look at Sam Rockwell, right, in a scene from the film. That's Colin Farrell at left.

Walken, center, waited backstage with other previous best supporting actor Oscar winners, from left, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alan Arkin and Kevin Kline before announcing the 2009 winner at the 81st annual Academy Awards. Heath Ledger won the Oscar posthumously.

Walken matched dance moves with John Travolta, who played his wife, in the 2007 musical "Hairspray."

He was dancing in the streets in this scene from 2007's "Romance and Cigarettes."

Walken played a killer pingpong player with killer hair in the 2007 comedy "Balls of Fury."

Robin Williams and Walken shared a laugh, a game of chess, coffee and a scene in the 2006 political comedy "Man of the Year."

Walken co-starred with another odd speaking actor, Adam Sandler, in 2006's "Click."

Walken was right at home in the 2005 oddball comedy "The Wedding Crashers."

Who better to welcome Matthew Broderick's character to the town of Stepford than Walken in 2004's "The Stepford Wives"?

Walken shared the screen with Denzel Washington in the 2004 motion picture "Man on Fire."

Walken was a bit of con man himself as father to Leonardo DiCaprio's master con artist in Steven Spielberg's 2002 film "Catch Me If You Can." He received a best supporting actor Academy Award nomination for the role.
 

Walken got a laugh out of Cyndi Lauper as the two posed for a photo for USA TODAY while promoting their 2000 film, "The Opportunists."

That might be a wig that Walken wore for his role as the Hessian Horseman in Tim Burton's 1999 motion picture "Sleepy Hollow." Then again, it might not.

He sweptSissy Spacek off her feet in a scene from the 1999 rom-com "Blast From the Past."

Walken tried his hand, or more precisely his voice, as Col. Cutter in the 1998 animated movie "Antz."

Walken once again portrayed a Vietnam veteran in one scene in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 motion picture, "Pulp Fiction." In the scene Walken's character returns a gold watch that belonged to a soldier he was held POW with to the man's son.

He strucka pose in 1992.
 

Walken turned villain once again, this time as a millionaire industrialist, in 1992's "Batman Returns."

Walken played a mad industrialist villain in the 1985 James Bond flick "A View To A Kill." Grace Jones joined him in the movie which was Roger Moore's last turn in the Bond role.

The actor displayed more than his dancing skills in this scene from the 1981 motion picture "Pennies from Heaven." Walken's skills as a dancer had frequently been showcased in his films.

Walken portrayed a young veteran haunted by his Vietnam experiences in the 1978 motion picture "The Deer Hunter."