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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.
Filmography
all 69
Movies 69

The Tanks Are Coming (1941)

The Declaration of Independence (1938)

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

Topper (1937)

Let Them Live (1937)

We Who Are About to Die (1937)

Go West Young Man (1936)

Yours for the Asking (1936)

Dangerous (1935)

Front Page Woman (1935)

Age of Indiscretion (1935)

While the Patient Slept (1935)

Sons of Steel (1934)

The Gay Bride (1934)

Babbitt (1934)

Strange Wives (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

A Lost Lady (1934)

Sadie McKee (1934)

Bedside (1934)

The House on 56th Street (1933)

Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Female (1933)

I'm No Angel (1933)

Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)

I Love That Man (1933)

Hello, Sister! (1933)

The Great Jasper (1933)

From Hell to Heaven (1933)

Hard to Handle (1933)

The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)

No Man of Her Own (1932)

You Said a Mouthful (1932)

Prosperity (1932)

The Conquerors (1932)

Life Begins (1932)

Blessed Event (1932)

Two Against the World (1932)

Madame Racketeer (1932)

The Woman in Room 13 (1932)

Letty Lynton (1932)

The Mouthpiece (1932)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1932)

The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)

Emma (1932)

Possessed (1931)

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

Rebound (1931)

The Common Law (1931)

Annabelle's Affairs (1931)

The Secret Six (1931)

A Tailor-Made Man (1931)

Paid (1930)

Reaching for the Moon (1930)

The Great Power (1929)

American - That's All (1917)

In Again, Out Again (1917)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1864-03-13
Deathday1947-12-04 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
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