Biography
Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1937, Bill attended Grandview Heights High School and the Ohio State University where he majored in fine arts hoping to get into advertising or cartooning. Among his many mementos are a sheaf of rejection slips from The New Yorker and Playboy. He was introduced to the theatre by volunteering to design the set for a friend's student production. He worked on the art staff of the OSU Motion Pictures Department and the University TV station, WOSU. In 1963, after the usual summer stock assignments, he arrived in New York City, where he worked at NBC as a page and as a production assistant. He became a backstage jack-of-all-trades with The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Playhouse of the Ridiculous, and many other regional and off-Broadway theater groups.
In 1966 he was hired by Peter Schickele as the stage manager for PDQ Bach, and became known to thousands of concert goers in New York and around the country as the irascible and irritable but always efficient apologist for Schickele's satiric presentations of the infamous "Evening of Musical Madness". Despite his crusty on-stage persona, Bill was for 46 years the technical coordinator, production manager, road manager, and the REAL stage manager of the series of concerts that had its first public performance in 1965 at Town Hall in New York. He once said that he felt like Sky Masterson, the gambler-hero of "Guys and Dolls", who noted that: "There are two things that have been in every hotel room in America: Sky Masterson and the Gideon Bible."
Walters continues to work in concerts, theatre, dabbles in background work in movies and TV, writes lots of unproduced plays and film scripts, and teaches film-making and video with kids. He also works for Gray Line New York Sightseeing as a tour guide riding around on the top of a double-decker bus telling lies about New York City to gullible and unwary tourists.
He is married to the actress Donegal Browne. Their daughter Samantha Browne-Walters is also an actress.
Filmography
all 36
Movies 30
TV Shows 6
self 1
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
The Dark Tower (2017)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Marjorie Prime (2017)
The Comedian (2016)
Barry (2016)
Sisters (2015)
The Night Before (2015)
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
True Story (2015)
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Annie (2014)
Shelter (2014)
The Americans (2013)
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2012)
Being Flynn (2012)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
The Heart, She Holler (2011)
The Extra Man (2010)
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Fair Game (2010)
White Collar (2009)
Bored to Death (2009)
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
The Wrestler (2008)
Enchanted (2007)
Six Degrees (2006)
Analyze That (2002)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
100 Centre Street (2001)
The Refrigerator (1991)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have A Problem.
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1937-12-11 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceColumbus, Ohio, USA
Also Known AsWilliam Albert Walters
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