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person_profile-Bill Walters

Bill Walters Age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Bill Walters

Date of Birth:

Dec 11, 1937

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Bill Walters

    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.

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Bill Walters

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Filmography of

Bill Walters

Found 30 Movies in total

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Homeless Man (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2018

The Dark Tower

Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2017

John Wick: Chapter 2

Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2017

Marjorie Prime

Old Jon (as W.A. Walters) ( Actor )

... 2017

The Comedian

Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2016

Barry

Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2016

Sisters

Airport Traveler (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2015

The Night Before

Christmas Bartender (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2015

Ricki and the Flash

Salt Well Regular (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2015

True Story

Inmate (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2015

A Most Violent Year

Subway Rider (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2014

Annie

Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2014

Shelter

Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2012

Being Flynn

Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2012

Man on a Ledge

Inmate ( Actor )

... 2012

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Homeless Man (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2011

The Extra Man

Panhandler ( Actor )

... 2010

You Don't Know Jack

Michigan Inmate (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2010

Fair Game

Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2010

Back

Homeless at Bowling Green ( Actor )

... 2009

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Homeless at PABT (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2008

The Wrestler

Wrestling Fan (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2008

Enchanted

42nd Street BG (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2007

Analyze That

Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2002

Riding in Cars with Boys

Hippie at Party (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2001

The Refrigerator

Eileen's Father ( Actor )

... 1991

Midnight Cowboy

St. Bernard Owner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1969

Wait Until Dark

BG with Dog (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1967

You're a Big Boy Now

Commerce Street BG (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1966