Sydney Walker
Acting
Born May 5, 1921, 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
- 1994Getting Even with Dad — Mr. Wankmueller
- 1993Mrs. Doubtfire — Bus Driver
- 1992Prelude to a Kiss — Old Man
- 1991Long Road Home — Kleindecker
- 1991Shadow of a Doubt — Mr. Granville
- 1990Blown Away — Plattsburgh Clerk
- 1990Fine Things — Rabbi
- 1987Eye on the Sparrow — Obstetrician
- 1985Ewoks: The Battle for Endor — Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice)
- 1984The Ewok Adventure — Deej Warrick (voice)
- 1981A Christmas Carol — Fezziwig
- 1977Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? — Narrator
- 1974Enemies — Levshin
- Great Performances — Levshin
- 1970Love Story — Dr. Shapeley
- 1970Puzzle of a Downfall Child — Psychiatrist
- 1970The Way We Live Now — Lincoln