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Sep 7, 2010 · Advertisement. Dr Walter Hartwell “Walt” White Sr. Birth. 7 Sep 1958. New Mexico, USA. Death. 7 Sep 2010 (aged 52) Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA. Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: it was walter white Add to Map. Memorial ID. 244454293. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 14. Flowers 16.
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Walter Hartwell White Sr., also known by his alias Heisenberg, is the fictional antihero [a] turned villain protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad, portrayed by Bryan Cranston.
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Walter Hartwell "Walt" White Sr., also known by his pseudonym Heisenberg and also frequently referred to as Mr. White, was an American chemist, school teacher, and major narcotics distributor from Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose drug empire became the largest meth operation in U.S. history, surpassing those of both Gustavo Fring and the Cartel. Before entering the drug trade, Walt worked as an overqualified high school chemistry teacher at J. P. Wynne High School, working a second job at the A1A Car Wash to financially support his family (his wife Skyler, son Walt Jr. and infant daughter Holly). After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Walt started manufacturing chemically pure methamphetamine to provide for his family upon his death. Knowing nothing about the drug trade, Walt enlisted the aid of his former student, Jesse Pinkman, to sell the meth he produced.
Walt's scientific knowledge and dedication to quality led him to produce meth that was purer and more potent than any competitors. To avoid the tedious collection of pseudoephedrine required for production, he devised an alternative chemical process utilizing methylamine, giving his product a distinctive blue color. The product, known by the street name "Blue Sky," came to dominate the local drug market, leading to confrontations with rival drug dealers. Although Walt and Jesse began as amateur small-time meth cooks, manufacturing the drug out of an RV in the deserts of New Mexico, they soon climbed up the criminal hierarchy. Because of his drug-related activities, Walt eventually found himself at odds with law enforcement (namely his unwitting brother-in-law, DEA agent Hank Schrader), Gustavo Fring and the Cartel, putting him and his family's lives at risk.
Background information
Walter Hartwell "Walt" White was born on September 7, 1958, and was an only child. When Walt was young, his father's health rapidly deteriorated upon developing Huntington’s disease, and all the good memories that friends and family tried to implant in the boy’s head never supplanted the terrifying memory of visiting his father in the hospital just before his death ("Salud"). He remembered the twisted body, the empty eyes that didn't seem to focus on him, the terrible disinfectant smell of the hospital, and his breathing: Walt described it as “this rattling sound like if you were shaking an empty spray paint can—like there was nothing in him” ("Salud"). He recalled being tested for Huntington's disease as a child as well as working in a cardboard box factory as a teenager whilst in high school ("Hazard Pay"). He presumably grew up somewhere other than Albuquerque, New Mexico, given the fact that he would have to fly to visit his mother. ("4 Days Out") Walt studied at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with his best friend Elliott Schwartz, where he proved himself a brilliant chemist with a specialty in X-ray crystallography ("Gray Matter"). In 1985, Walt's groundbreaking research regarding photon radiography contributed to a project that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded jointly to Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle for outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures ("Pilot"). Following his education, Walt went on to co-found Gray Matter Technologies with Elliott. At this time, he was dating his female lab assistant, Gretchen ("...and the Bag's in the River"). Though the two were briefly engaged, Walt abruptly left her without explanation after meeting her family on a Fourth of July weekend, unable to cope with the feelings of inferiority their wealth and success stirred up in him ("Peekaboo"). Soon after, Walt sold his share of the company to Elliott for $5,000 ("Buyout"). Gretchen eventually went on to marry Elliot, and Gray Matter became a highly successful, multi-billion dollar company. Walt would come to feel that the fruits of his hard labor had been stolen from him and bitterly blamed Elliott and Gretchen for his financial problems and overall lot in life, despite the fact it was his own decision to leave. Walt refused to acknowledge his own failures for leaving Gray Matter and regretted his decision of leaving and selling out, which would later become a contributing factor in his decision to build a meth empire ("Buyout"). By the turn of 1990, Walt was working in Application Labs ("Cancer Man"). He also worked in a chemical lab near Los Alamos, where he met his wife Skyler Lambert, who worked as a hostess in a neighboring restaurant ("Cancer Man"). He moved to Albuquerque to work for Sandia Laboratories just prior to his firstborn's birth ("Full Measure"). In Albuquerque, he and his wife settled into a home at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, despite his desire for a larger house in light of recent business success. Walt either left or lost his position at Sandia Laboratories and he eventually went on to become a chemistry teacher at J. P. Wynne High School where his son, Walt Jr., also attended as a student. At some point, he became the Chair of the Science Department at J. P. Wynne as well. Financially, this job was not enough to support his family, so Skyler did side work writing short stories and selling items on the internet. When Skyler became pregnant with their second child, however, Walt took on a degrading second job at the A1A Car Wash.
El Camino
Following Walt's death and Jesse's escape from the compound, Jesse, Skinny Pete and Badger see and hear several news reports about the aftermath of the massacre. In one report, Walt's poisoning of Lydia is mentioned, with her now hospitalized, under questioning for her ties with Walt, and not being expected to survive, becoming Walt's final murder victim. The same report mentions that Walt was found dead by the police in aftermath of the gang massacre which claimed the lives of nine people (all eight members of Jack's gang and Walt himself). In the news reports, Walter White's Drug Empire is called the largest meth manufacturing operation in US history. The money Walt gave Skinny Pete and Badger for helping him deceive Gretchen and Elliot is given to Jesse to help him evade the cops and eventually enlist Ed Galbraith's aid to move to Alaska. In a flashback, Jesse and Walt spend the night in a hotel after their misadventures in the desert ("4 Days Out"). During breakfast, Walt tells Jesse that he should enter college and use his abilities for something else other than selling drugs. Looking at the RV parked outside, Walt comments that Jesse is lucky in that he didn't have to go his whole life before he did something extraordinary. ("El Camino")
Better Call Saul
While talking with Jeff about his potential future in the criminal lifestyle, Saul (under his Gene Takavic alias) references Walt in his example, saying that "what really seemed crazy was a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher cooking meth to save money for his family and becoming a millionaire within the span of the year." ("Nippy") On November 12, 2010, Saul calls Francesca Liddy who gives him an update on the situation following Walt's death. Francesca reveals that Walt's death only made things worse for the surviving low-level players connected to his meth empire rather than better. As Walt had hoped, Skyler had succeeded in getting a deal with the federal prosecutors and the DEA was ultimately forced to release Huell Babineaux, leaving only Jesse and Saul left for them to go after, implying Lydia had died by this point. Although Jesse has successfully managed to escape to Alaska, the DEA has seized all of Saul's assets and are even following Francesca in an attempt to find him. Francesca admits that she doesn't know what's become of Patrick Kuby, another one of Walt's associates and she doesn't answer Saul's questions about Ira. The following day, during a conversation with Jeff and Buddy, Saul references Walt as an example of a guy with cancer being an asshole, stating he "knows from experience." ("Breaking Bad") After Saul's undercover life as Gene was exposed by Jeff's mother Marion and he was caught by police, he is extradited back to Albuquerque and held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. As he is being led through a corridor, he sees Marie Schrader in an adjoining room. Saul and Oakley negotiate a plea with a team of prosecutors, who are offering a reduced sentence of 30 years in prison. Knowing that Marie is watching the negotiation, Saul asks that she be allowed into the room. Marie sits across from Saul and eulogizes her late husband, Hank, and his partner, Steven Gomez, blaming their murders on Walt. Saul portrays himself as a victim of Walt, recounting how he and Jesse kidnapped him; his actions as their accomplice, he insists, were borne out of fear that he would be killed. Saul coolly reminds the lead prosecutor, George Castellano, that he only needs one juror to avoid conviction; Marie warns against making a deal. Saul, wearing a flashy suit, enters a courtroom for his sentencing hearing; Oakley, Marie, and Kim, sitting in the back row, are also in attendance. While Castellano is making a statement to the judge defending the plea agreement, Saul rises and asks to address the court. Saul's initially repeats his speech from the MDC, recounting his kidnapping by Walt and Jesse. However, contrary to the established facts in his plea agreement, Saul throws the proceeding into disarray by confessing that, far from being a victim, he was a willing and indispensable part of Walter White's Drug Empire. He admits to falsifying his statements about Kim, admits to the role he played in triggering his brother Chuck's suicide, credits Kim with walking away from the criminal life, and addresses himself as "James McGill" for the first time in years. Jimmy sits back at the defendant's table and looks for acknowledgment from Kim while Oakley and Castellano's team argue about the plea agreement. Jimmy would ultimately be sentenced to 86-years in prison, leaving Jesse as the only remaining link to Walter White's Drug Empire. ("Saul Gone") Walter White would end up being remembered as being "the most notorious meth kingpin [America] has ever seen". ("American Greed: James McGill")
Walter White starts off as a milquetoast, highly overqualified high school chemistry teacher. The job does not pay well, so to supplement his income, he has another job at the local car wash. Though hired to work the register, his boss forces him to wash cars outside, which often proves to be extremely humiliating when he has to clean the cars of his students. At home, his sex life appears to be passionless; Skyler seems more involved in selling their household items on eBay than sharing an intimate moment in the bedroom, and Walt has trouble getting "inspired" in any case. Furthermore, Walt has an alpha-male brother-in-law, Hank, who has a flashy job as a DEA agent and is infinitely more impressive to Walt Jr. than his own father.
It is clear from the start that Walt is suffering from a mid-life crisis. He feels frustrated, overwhelmed, beaten down, stretched thin, passed over, cheated, unappreciated, emasculated, exploited, and unfulfilled. Even the field where he has the most skill, chemistry, falls on the deaf ears of his disrespectful, apathetic students. Even before his diagnosis, Walt felt like a failure, unable to adequately provide for his family and fulfill the role expected of him by American society. The news of his terminal lung cancer leaves Walt numb and he shows almost no emotion upon learning of it, as if he was already dead. Learning that his life will be unexpectedly cut short, coupled with the knowledge that he's going to leave his already financially struggling family bankrupt, is the final slap in the face, the last humiliating insult life can dish out.
When Walt partners up with Jesse to make meth, he claims that his motivation is his family. He says that before he dies he wants to be able to take care of his loved ones. He wants Skyler to be able to pay off the mortgage, to cover college educations for his children, and medical bills for the whole family. At one point he even calculates an exact figure of how much money he needs to make in order to provide the essentials for his family over the next 20 years ($737,000), and then he'd quit selling drugs once he reaches that number. While deciding to make meth is morally dubious, the anger Walt feels about having to scrounge for every dollar while being trapped in an monotonous cycle, his life passing by day by day without any job or fulfillment, is legitimate, and it's compounded by the importance placed on the "traditional" patriarchal family unit, as well as the pressure and expectation put on men to provide for their families.
After surviving his first foray into the dangerous drug underworld - a foray that was life threatening, terrifying, and violent - Walt feels invigorated for the first time in years. He goes home and sleeps with his wife. Skyler, surprised by his sudden sexual advance, asks, "Walt, is that you?!" as she gasps for breath. When Jesse questions Walt about his decision to enter the meth business, Walt reveals that he feels "awake." In addition to his chemistry expertise, Walt was shown to be a good mental calculator, as he calculated most of the numbers to his deals within his head and with no calculator.
Walt more frequently uses the concept of providing for and protecting his family as a justification for his actions and crimes, but his true motivations are gradually revealed to be personal satisfaction, pride, authority, and power. He wants to shed the image of the nerdy science teacher who can't take care of his family. Walt wants respect, and wishes to seek revenge against the society that he views as having screwed him over, undervalued his worth, and overlooked his potential. Walt does what he does to give himself a sense of worth and pride, and he justifies his murderous, nearly insatiable greed by claiming he's just doing it for the good of his loved ones even as he pushes them away. Underneath that thinly veiled altruistic excuse is a naked desire to dominate others for the sake of unfettered growth and power. Walt finally reveals to Skyler in the final episode of the series that truly everything he did was for himself, admitting he enjoyed it and that it made him feel alive.
Series creator Vince Gilligan has described his goal with Walt as "turning Mr. Chips into Scarface", and he deliberately made the character less and less sympathetic over the course of the series. Gilligan said, "He's going from being a protagonist to an antagonist. We want to make people question who they're pulling for, and why." Over the course of the series, Walt has evolved - or devolved - into a ruthless, dangerous and amoral drug kingpin; a man willing to ruin and even end lives in the pursuit of greater riches and, more importantly, the nourishment of his own ego. As he says, he's in the "empire business." He wants to conquer, dominate, to bend the world to his will, and enrich himself without limit for the sake of obtaining power, even if it means to hurt or kill other people.
Murders committed by Walt
•Emilio Koyama: Poisoned with phosphine gas. ("Pilot") •Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina: Strangled with a bike lock. ("...and the Bag's in the River") •Rival Dealers: Ran over them with his car, then shot one of them in the head. ("Half Measures") •Two of Gustavo Fring's Henchmen: Both shot to death. ("Face Off") •Michael "Mike" Ehrmantraut: Shot in the stomach and bled out. ("Say My Name") •Kenny, Matt, Frankie, Lester, and two unnamed gang members: Shot by a remote-activated M60 machine gun. ("Felina") •Jack Welker: Shot in the head to avenge Hank and Steven Gomez. ("Felina") •Lydia Rodarte-Quayle: Poisoned with ricin. ("Felina", "El Camino")
Murders connected to Walt
•Tuco Salamanca: Killed by Hank in a shootout while he was searching for Walt and found Jesse's car in Tuco's hiding place. ("Grilled") •The Cousins: While at first they wanted to kill Walt, Gus convinced them to turn their revenge on Walt's brother-in-law Hank. This resulted in Marco's death at the hands of Hank and Leonel poisoned by Mike. •Gale Boetticher: Shot by Jesse on Walt's orders so that Walt and Jesse wouldn't be killed and replaced by him. ("Full Measure") •Gustavo "Gus" Fring: Succumbed to injuries sustained in Hector Salamanca's pipe bomb explosion; Walt supplied the bomb and orchestrated the assassination. ("Face Off") •Tyrus Kitt: Blown up by Hector Salamanca; Walt supplied the bomb and orchestrated the assassination. ("Face Off") •Gus's 10 former employees: Murdered by Jack Welker's Gang in prison on Walt's orders. ("Gliding Over All") •Dan Wachsberger •Jack McGann •Andrew Holt •Anthony Perez •Isaac Conley •William Moniz •Harris Boivin •Raymond Martinez •Ron Forenall •Dennis Markowski •Steven "Steve" Gomez: Walt's call to Jack Welker would indirectly lead to Gomez being shot to death by Jack Welker's Gang. ("Ozymandias") •Henry "Hank" Schrader: Walt's call to Jack would indirectly lead to Hank being shot in the head by Jack, despite Walt's pleas for Jack to spare him. ("Ozymandias") •Andrea Cantillo: Walt let Andrea's relationship to Jesse be known to Jack and his gang and her location was previously given by Walt. This information allowed her to be executed by Todd Alquist as punishment for Jesse trying to escape and to force him to cook again. ("Granite State") •Todd Alquist: After Walt shot all of the other members of Jack's gang with the remote-activated M60 machine gun, Jesse took a distracted and horrified Todd by surprise and snapped his neck with his chains. ("Felina")
Deaths connected to Walt
•Jane Margolis: Passed out after intravenously injecting a large amount of heroin. Soon after, Walt inadvertently rolled her onto her back, causing her to asphyxiate. Walt watched these events unfold, but ultimately made the difficult decision not to save her. ("Phoenix") •167 passengers aboard Wayfarer 515 and JM21: After Walt allowed Jane to die, her father Donald, still grieving over his loss, accidentally crashed Wayfarer 515 and JM21. ("ABQ") •Hector Salamanca: Voluntarily blew himself up in order to assassinate Gus. Walt supplied him with the bomb and orchestrated the assassination. ("Face Off") •Himself: Accidentally shot by a bullet from his remote-activated M60 machine gun while shielding Jesse Pinkman from the bullets, later succumbed to his wound. ("Felina")
•Walt is one of only five characters that appears in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and El Camino, the others being Jesse Pinkman, Mike Ehrmantraut, Ed Galbraith and Austin Ramey.
•Huell Babineaux appears in countdown videos prior to the release of El Camino, but does not appear in the film itself.
•Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman and Lydia Rodarte-Quayle are indirectly mentioned in El Camino, but do not appear in the film itself.
•Walt and Jesse are the only characters to appear in every single episode of Breaking Bad.
•Bryan Cranston contributed greatly to the creation of Walter White, including Walt's backstory, personality, and physical appearance. Cranston has said that Walter White was inspired by his own father.
•In 2022, statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were built and unveiled in Albuquerque.
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Walter Hartwell White Sr., also known by his drug-lord alias Heisenberg, is the main protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad, portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Walter was a skilled chemist and co-founder of a technology firm before he accepted a buy-out from his partners.
