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Bill Walters

Acting
Known For

87 Years Old

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.

Born

Columbus, Ohio, USA on 11th December 1937

All Credits

White Collar Image
White Collar
Weird Guy in Lobby
The Americans Image
The Americans
Homeless at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
John Wick: Chapter 2 Image
John Wick: Chapter 2
Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited)
Bored to Death Image
Bored to Death
Barfly (uncredited)
The Dark Tower Image
The Dark Tower
Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)
Annie Image
Annie
Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited)
Enchanted Image
Enchanted
42nd Street BG (uncredited)
Six Degrees Image
Six Degrees
Subway Rider (uncredited)
100 Centre Street Image
100 Centre Street
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
100 Centre Street Image
100 Centre Street
Perp (uncredited)
Midnight Cowboy Image
Midnight Cowboy
St. Bernard Owner (uncredited)
Sisters Image
Sisters
Airport Traveler (uncredited)
A Most Violent Year Image
A Most Violent Year
Subway Rider (uncredited)
Man on a Ledge Image
Man on a Ledge
Inmate
Wait Until Dark Image
Wait Until Dark
BG with Dog (uncredited)
The Wrestler Image
The Wrestler
Wrestling Fan (uncredited)
True Story Image
True Story
Inmate (uncredited)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Image
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Homeless Man (uncredited)
Analyze That Image
Analyze That
Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited)
The Night Before Image
The Night Before
Christmas Bartender (uncredited)
Fair Game Image
Fair Game
Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited)
Riding in Cars with Boys Image
Riding in Cars with Boys
Hippie at Party (uncredited)
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Image
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Homeless at PABT (uncredited)
You Don't Know Jack Image
You Don't Know Jack
Michigan Inmate (uncredited)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Image
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Homeless Man (uncredited)
Being Flynn Image
Being Flynn
Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited)
Ricki and the Flash Image
Ricki and the Flash
Salt Well Regular (uncredited)
Shelter Image
Shelter
Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited)
The Comedian Image
The Comedian
Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Image
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Homeless Dude
Barry Image
Barry
Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)
Marjorie Prime Image
Marjorie Prime
Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)
The Extra Man Image
The Extra Man
Panhandler
The Refrigerator Image
The Refrigerator
Eileen's Father
You're a Big Boy Now Image
You're a Big Boy Now
Commerce Street BG (uncredited)
No Image
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Homeless at Bowling Green