Walter Walker
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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
Marie Antoinette
Dr. Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
American Madness
Life Begins
Dr. Tubby
Topper
Judge (uncredited)
Blessed Event
Mr. Miller
No Man of Her Own
Mr. Morton
Possessed
Whitney for Governor Supporter (uncredited)
Imitation of Life
Hugh (uncredited)
The Conquerors
Thomas B. Ogden
Everybody's Old Man
Haslett
Sadie McKee
Mr. Alderson (uncredited)
Sons of Steel
John Chadburne
You Said a Mouthful
Tom Brandon
The Gay Bride
MacPherson- lawyer
Let Them Live
Dr. Vlissing
You Can't Buy Everything
Josiah Flagg
While the Patient Slept
Richard Federie
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Dr. Clark
One New York Night
Hampton
The Great Jasper
Daniel McGowd
Front Page Woman
Judge Hugo Rickard
Paid
Judge Lawler (uncredited)
A Lost Lady
Judge Hardy
Two Against the World
Courtney Hamilton
Rebound
Mr. Henry Jaffrey
Dangerous
Roger Farnsworth
The Great Power
Sen. Charles Davis
I Believed in You
Lacy
I Loved a Woman
Oliver
You Can't Take It with You
Governor Leach (uncredited)
American - That's All
Father Boggs
Age of Indiscretion
Mr. Harris
Female
Jarratt (Uncredited)
Madame Racketeer
Arthur Gregory
I Love That Man
Mr. Walker
Prosperity
Maggie's Husband in Photo (uncredited)
In Again, Out Again
Sheriff Dubb
I'm No Angel
Judge (uncredited)
Bedside
Dr. Michael
The Count of Monte Cristo
Morrel
The Cowboy and the Lady
Ames
Hello, Sister!
Sedgwick
The Secret Six
Onlooker in Courtroom (uncredited)
Letty Lynton
Mr. Darrow
From Hell to Heaven
Pop Lockwood
Reaching for the Moon
James Benton
Flying Down to Rio
Senor De Rezende
Blackbirds
Howard Crocker
The Rich Are Always with Us
Dante
The Women Men Marry
“Pop”
The Mouthpiece
District Attorney Forbes
Hard to Handle
Bedford College Representative (uncredited)
The Common Law
John Neville Sr.
The House on 56th Street
Dr. Wyman
Yours for the Asking
Mr. Crenshaw
Emma
Dr. Horton (uncredited)
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
The Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
Babbitt
Luke Ethorne
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Pop's Voice on Record
Go West Young Man
Andy Kelton
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Dr. Barton
She Couldn't Take It
Judge
We Who Are About to Die
The Governor (uncredited)
The World Changes
Doctor (uncredited)
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Mr. Parker
The Woman in Room 13
Howard Ramsey
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Dr. Walter Burke
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Mr. Layton
A Tailor-Made Man
Abraham Nathan
Strange Wives
The General