
Sydney Walker
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-05-05
Day of Death
1994-09-30 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Sydney Walker
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.
Known For
Acting
(1993)
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Bus Driver
(1992)
Prelude to a Kiss
as Old Man
(1991)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Mr. Granville
(1991)
Long Road Home
as Kleindecker
(1990)
Fine Things
as Rabbi
(1987)
Eye on the Sparrow
as Obstetrician
(1985)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
as Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice)
(1984)
The Ewok Adventure
as Deej Warrick (voice)
(1981)
A Christmas Carol
as Fezziwig
(1977)
(1974)
Enemies
as Levshin
(1970)
Love Story
as Dr. Shapeley
(1970)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
as Psychiatrist
(1970)
The Way We Live Now
as Lincoln