Walter Walker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 13, 1864
- Died
- Dec 4, 1947 (aged 83)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 73
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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
You Can't Take It with You
1938Movie
Governor Leach (uncredited)
Topper
1937Movie
Judge (uncredited)
Imitation of Life
1934Movie
Hugh (uncredited)
Flying Down to Rio
1933Movie
Senor De Rezende
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934Movie
Morrel
I'm No Angel
1933Movie
Judge (uncredited)
Filmography
The Declaration of Independence
1938Movie
Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938Movie
Ames
You Can't Take It with You
1938Movie
Governor Leach (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
1938Movie
Dr. Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
The Women Men Marry
1937Movie
“Pop”
Topper
1937Movie
Judge (uncredited)
Let Them Live
1937Movie
Dr. Vlissing
We Who Are About to Die
1937Movie
The Governor (uncredited)
Go West Young Man
1936Movie
Andy Kelton
Yours for the Asking
1936Movie
Mr. Crenshaw
Everybody's Old Man
1936Movie
Haslett
Dangerous
1935Movie
Roger Farnsworth
She Couldn't Take It
1935Movie
Judge
Front Page Woman
1935Movie
Judge Hugo Rickard
Age of Indiscretion
1935Movie
Mr. Harris
While the Patient Slept
1935Movie
Richard Federie
One New York Night
1935Movie
Hampton
The Gay Bride
1934Movie
MacPherson- lawyer
Sons of Steel
1934Movie
John Chadburne
Babbitt
1934Movie
Luke Ethorne
Strange Wives
1934Movie
The General
Imitation of Life
1934Movie
Hugh (uncredited)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934Movie
Dr. Barton
A Lost Lady
1934Movie
Judge Hardy
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934Movie
Morrel
Sadie McKee
1934Movie
Mr. Alderson (uncredited)
I Believed in You
1934Movie
Lacy
Bedside
1934Movie
Dr. Michael
You Can't Buy Everything
1934Movie
Josiah Flagg
The House on 56th Street
1933Movie
Dr. Wyman
Flying Down to Rio
1933Movie
Senor De Rezende
The World Changes
1933Movie
Doctor (uncredited)
Female
1933Movie
Jarratt (Uncredited)
I'm No Angel
1933Movie
Judge (uncredited)
I Loved a Woman
1933Movie
Oliver
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933Movie
Dr. Clark
I Love That Man
1933Movie
Mr. Walker
Hello, Sister!
1933Movie
Sedgwick
The Great Jasper
1933Movie
Daniel McGowd
From Hell to Heaven
1933Movie
Pop Lockwood
Hard to Handle
1933Movie
Bedford College Representative (uncredited)
The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933Movie
Mr. Parker
No Man of Her Own
1932Movie
Mr. Morton
You Said a Mouthful
1932Movie
Tom Brandon
The Conquerors
1932Movie
Thomas B. Ogden
Prosperity
1932Movie
Maggie's Husband in Photo (uncredited)
Blessed Event
1932Movie
Mr. Miller
Life Begins
1932Movie
Dr. Tubby
Two Against the World
1932Movie
Courtney Hamilton
American Madness
1932Movie
Madame Racketeer
1932Movie
Arthur Gregory
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932Movie
Dante
The Woman in Room 13
1932Movie
Howard Ramsey
Letty Lynton
1932Movie
Mr. Darrow
The Mouthpiece
1932Movie
District Attorney Forbes
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1932Movie
Dr. Walter Burke
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932Movie
Pop's Voice on Record
Emma
1932Movie
Dr. Horton (uncredited)
Possessed
1931Movie
Whitney for Governor Supporter (uncredited)
Susan Lenox
1931Movie
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931Movie
Mr. Layton
Rebound
1931Movie
Mr. Henry Jaffrey
The Common Law
1931Movie
John Neville Sr.
The Secret Six
1931Movie
Onlooker in Courtroom (uncredited)
A Tailor-Made Man
1931Movie
Abraham Nathan
Paid
1930Movie
Judge Lawler (uncredited)
Reaching for the Moon
1930Movie
James Benton
The Great Power
1929Movie
Sen. Charles Davis
The Chicken in the Case
1921Movie
Major Whitman
Blackbirds
1920Movie
Howard Crocker
Her Excellency, the Governor
1917Movie
Capitalist
American - That's All
1917Movie
Father Boggs
In Again, Out Again
1917Movie
Sheriff Dubb