Walter Walker

Acting

Born Mar 13, 1864

From New York City, New York, USA

Died Dec 04, 1947

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.

Walter Walker

Known For

You Can't Take It with You

Marie Antoinette

Dangerous

Topper

Imitation of Life

Flying Down to Rio

Mary Stevens, M.D.

I'm No Angel

The Count of Monte Cristo

Letty Lynton

Filmography — Acting

You Can't Take It with You

Marie Antoinette

Dangerous

Topper

Imitation of Life

Flying Down to Rio

Mary Stevens, M.D.

I'm No Angel

The Count of Monte Cristo

Letty Lynton

Female

American Madness

Babbitt

She Couldn't Take It

The Cowboy and the Lady

Sadie McKee

The Rich Are Always with Us

Bedside

I Loved a Woman

The Common Law

Front Page Woman

Emma

A Tailor-Made Man

Paid

Possessed

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

The House on 56th Street

Yours for the Asking

Hello, Sister!

The Mouthpiece

Blessed Event

No Man of Her Own

Reaching for the Moon

Life Begins

I Believed in You

The Secret Six

The Woman in Room 13

I Love That Man

The World Changes

Madame Racketeer

The Conquerors

Prosperity

The Declaration of Independence

We Who Are About to Die

You Said a Mouthful

The Billion Dollar Scandal

From Hell to Heaven

Hard to Handle

Rebound

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Go West Young Man

Age of Indiscretion

Strange Wives

While the Patient Slept

A Lost Lady

Sons of Steel

The Gay Bride

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Two Against the World

The Great Jasper

Everybody's Old Man

You Can't Buy Everything

One New York Night

The Women Men Marry

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

Let Them Live