Walter Walker
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Walker (March 13, 1864 – December 4, 1947) was an American actor of the stage and screen during the first half of the twentieth century. Born in New York City, Walker would have a career in theater prior to entering the film industry. By 1915 he was appearing in Broadway productions, his first being Sinners, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Owen Davis. His film debut was in a leading role in 1917's American – That's All. He had a lengthy career, in both film and on stage, appearing in numerous plays and over 80 films. From 1915 through 1930 Walker would appear over a dozen times on the Great White Way, with some of his more notable plays being An American Tragedy, taken from the best-selling novel of the same name by Theodore Dreiser, and Holiday, produced and directed by Arthur Hopkins. During the late 1910s, and through the 1920s, Walker would combine his stage career with appearances in several films, having mostly starring or featured roles in over half a dozen. He appeared in his last Broadway production in 1930, with a featured role in Rebound, written by Academy Award winner Donald Ogden Stewart. In 1931, Walker would devote his acting energies to the big screen, appearing in over 75 films throughout the rest of the decade. In one of his first films during this decade, he would reprise his role of Henry Jaffrey in the film version of Rebound, which starred Ina Claire, Robert Ames and Myrna Loy. Some of the more notable films in which Walker had either a featured or supporting role include 1933's Flying Down to Rio, the original version of Imitation of Life in 1934, the 1935 version of Magnificent Obsession, the Mae West vehicle Go West, Young Man in 1936, and as Benjamin Franklin in the 1938 film Marie Antoinette. Walker would reprise the role of Franklin for the 1938 short The Declaration of Independence. His final screen appearance in a feature film was in a supporting role in The Cowboy and the Lady in 1938. Walter Walker died on December 4, 1947 while visiting his daughter and her husband in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Known for
Credits
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
as Governor Leach (uncredited)
Possessed (1931)
as Whitney for Governor Supporter (uncredited)
Susan Lenox (1931)
as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
as Senor De Rezende
I'm No Angel (1933)
as Judge (uncredited)
Front Page Woman (1935)
as Judge Hugo Rickard
Hello, Sister! (1933)
as Sedgwick
Topper (1937)
as Judge (uncredited)
A Lost Lady (1934)
as Judge Hardy
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
as Ames
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
as Morrel
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Dr. Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
The Gay Bride (1934)
as MacPherson- lawyer
Let Them Live (1937)
as Dr. Vlissing
American Madness (1932)
Actor
Blackbirds (1920)
as Howard Crocker
Everybody's Old Man (1936)
as Haslett
The World Changes (1933)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Imitation of Life (1934)
as Hugh (uncredited)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
as Mr. Morton
Dangerous (1935)
as Roger Farnsworth
From Hell to Heaven (1933)
as Pop Lockwood
Sadie McKee (1934)
as Mr. Alderson (uncredited)
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
as James Benton
The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
as Howard Ramsey
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
as Secretary of War (uncredited)
Go West Young Man (1936)
as Andy Kelton
One New York Night (1935)
as Hampton
A Tailor-Made Man (1931)
as Abraham Nathan
I Love That Man (1933)
as Mr. Walker
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
as Dante
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
as Dr. Clark
We Who Are About to Die (1937)
as The Governor (uncredited)
You Said a Mouthful (1932)
as Tom Brandon
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
as Pop's Voice on Record
While the Patient Slept (1935)
as Richard Federie
The House on 56th Street (1933)
as Dr. Wyman
I Believed in You (1934)
as Lacy
The Declaration of Independence (1938)
as Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
She Couldn't Take It (1935)
as Judge
The Chicken in the Case (1921)
as Major Whitman
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
as Dr. Barton
Her Excellency, the Governor (1917)
as Capitalist
Yours for the Asking (1936)
as Mr. Crenshaw
The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
as Mr. Parker
Life Begins (1932)
as Dr. Tubby
I Loved a Woman (1933)
as Oliver
Blessed Event (1932)
as Mr. Miller
Emma (1932)
as Dr. Horton (uncredited)
American - That's All (1917)
as Father Boggs
Letty Lynton (1932)
as Mr. Darrow
The Secret Six (1931)
as Onlooker in Courtroom (uncredited)
The Women Men Marry (1937)
as “Pop”
In Again, Out Again (1917)
as Sheriff Dubb
Hard to Handle (1933)
as Bedford College Representative (uncredited)
The Conquerors (1932)
as Thomas B. Ogden
Prosperity (1932)
as Maggie's Husband in Photo (uncredited)
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)
as Mr. Layton
Strange Wives (1934)
as The General
The Common Law (1931)
as John Neville Sr.
Two Against the World (1932)
as Courtney Hamilton
The Mouthpiece (1932)
as District Attorney Forbes
You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
as Josiah Flagg
Age of Indiscretion (1935)
as Mr. Harris
Sons of Steel (1934)
as John Chadburne
Paid (1930)
as Judge Lawler (uncredited)
Rebound (1931)
as Mr. Henry Jaffrey
The Great Jasper (1933)
as Daniel McGowd
Babbitt (1934)
as Luke Ethorne
Female (1933)
as Jarratt (Uncredited)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1932)
as Dr. Walter Burke
Madame Racketeer (1932)
as Arthur Gregory
Bedside (1934)
as Dr. Michael
The Great Power (1929)
as Sen. Charles Davis