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Sydney Walker

Sydney Walker

Actor · 1921 – 1994 · 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.

Movies16

  • Movie7.2

    Mrs. Doubtfire

    1993 · 6.8K votes

  • Movie5.4
  • Movie6.8

    Love Story

    1970 · 759 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Ewok Adventure

    1984 · 434 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Getting Even with Dad

    1994 · 222 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Prelude to a Kiss

    1992 · 127 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1991 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie6.5

    Long Road Home

    1991 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Fine Things

    1990 · 15 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Eye on the Sparrow

    1987 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0

    The Way We Live Now

    1970 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie9.0

    Blown Away

    1990 · 1 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.0

    A Christmas Carol

    1981 · 1 votes

Series1

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes