Sydney Walker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 5, 1921
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- September 30, 1994
Biography
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.
Movies with Sydney Walker
- Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 · ★ 7.2
- Love Story 1970 · ★ 6.8
- The Ewok Adventure 1984 · ★ 5.8
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor 1985 · ★ 5.4
- Getting Even with Dad 1994 · ★ 5.3
- Prelude to a Kiss 1992 · ★ 5.6
- Puzzle of a Downfall Child 1970 · ★ 6.5
- Fine Things 1990 · ★ 6.0
- Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? 1977 · ★ 6.4
- Shadow of a Doubt 1991 · ★ 6.0
- Long Road Home 1991 · ★ 6.5
- Eye on the Sparrow 1987 · ★ 7.0
- A Christmas Carol 1981 · ★ 7.0
- The Way We Live Now 1970 · ★ 9.0
- Blown Away 1990 · ★ 9.0
- Enemies 1974