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Sydney Walker

Sydney Walker

Born: 1921-05-05 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

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.

Filmography
Getting Even with Dad poster
Getting Even with Dad
1994 • Mr. Wankmueller
Mrs. Doubtfire poster
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 • Bus Driver
Prelude to a Kiss poster
Prelude to a Kiss
1992 • Old Man
Shadow of a Doubt poster
Shadow of a Doubt
1991 • Mr. Granville
Long Road Home poster
Long Road Home
1991 • Kleindecker
Fine Things poster
Fine Things
1990 • Rabbi
Eye on the Sparrow poster
Eye on the Sparrow
1987 • Obstetrician
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor poster
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985 • Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice)
The Ewok Adventure poster
The Ewok Adventure
1984 • Deej Warrick (voice)
No Image
A Christmas Carol
1981 • Fezziwig
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? poster
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
1977 • Narrator
Enemies poster
Enemies
1974 • Levshin
Love Story poster
Love Story
1970 • Dr. Shapeley
Puzzle of a Downfall Child poster
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
1970 • Psychiatrist
The Way We Live Now poster
The Way We Live Now
1970 • Lincoln