Sydney Walker
Actor
- Born
- May 5, 1921 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- September 30, 1994 (age 73)
Sydney Walker was an American character actor of stage and screen and voice artist, with a career that spanned over five decades. He is most known for Prelude to a Kiss (elderly man Meg Ryan's character switches bodies with), and as the bus driver on Mrs. Doubtfire.
Walker made his Broadway debut as the Archbishop of Canterbury in the famous 1960 production of Jean Anouilh's "Beckett," which starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn. He subsequently appeared in 22 Broadway productions from 1960 to 1973.
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Walker made his movie debut in the Kirk Douglas movie A Lovely Way to Die (1968) and played the doctor in Love Story (1970). He made five appearances on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974. His last film was Getting Even with Dad (1994), but his most famous movie role came two years earlier in the film adaptation of Prelude to a Kiss (1992), in which he reprized the role of the Old Man he had assayed in the 1988 Berkeley Repertory production of the Craig Lucas play.
Known for
Mrs. Doubtfire
November 24, 1993
Love Story
December 16, 1970
The Ewok Adventure
December 21, 1984
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
November 24, 1985
Getting Even with Dad
June 17, 1994
Prelude to a Kiss
July 10, 1992
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
December 16, 1970
Fine Things
October 15, 1990
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
December 1, 1977
Long Road Home
February 25, 1991
Eye on the Sparrow
December 7, 1987
The Way We Live Now
May 27, 1970
Acting16
- 1994Getting Even with Dad as Mr. Wankmueller
- 1993Mrs. Doubtfire as Bus Driver
- 1992Prelude to a Kiss as Old Man
- 1991Shadow of a Doubt as Mr. Granville
- 1991Long Road Home as Kleindecker
- 1990Fine Things as Rabbi
- 1990Blown Away as Plattsburgh Clerk
- 1987Eye on the Sparrow as Obstetrician
- 1985Ewoks: The Battle for Endor as Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice)
- 1984The Ewok Adventure