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Bill Walters
Acting

Bill Walters
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-12-11,Columbus, Ohio, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

Wait Until Dark

7.347

Wait Until Dark
1967-10-26

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

6.456

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
2008-10-03

6.488

Fair Game
2010-05-20

Ricki and the Flash

5.784

Ricki and the Flash
2015-07-10

6.262

True Story
2015-04-17

6.2

Annie
2014-12-18

A Most Violent Year

6.606

A Most Violent Year
2014-12-31

6

Shelter
2014-09-12

5.8

Analyze That
2002-12-06

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

6.974

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011-12-25

5.7

The Extra Man
2010-08-01

5.9

Sisters
2015-12-18

You Don't Know Jack

7.1

You Don't Know Jack
2010-06-27

5.727

Barry
2016-09-10

7.5

The Wrestler
2008-09-07

5.742

The Dark Tower
2017-08-03

6.4

Man on a Ledge
2012-01-13

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

4

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
2012-03-06

Midnight Cowboy

7.52

Midnight Cowboy
1969-05-25

6.132

Marjorie Prime
2017-01-23

The Refrigerator

4

The Refrigerator
1991-01-11

6.135

Being Flynn
2012-03-02

6.825

Enchanted
2007-11-20

You're a Big Boy Now

6.3

You're a Big Boy Now
1966-12-09

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

6.812

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018-10-19

John Wick: Chapter 2

7.335

John Wick: Chapter 2
2017-02-08

5.7

The Comedian
2016-12-09

The Night Before

6.1

The Night Before
2015-11-20

Riding in Cars with Boys

6.764

Riding in Cars with Boys
2001-10-19

8.259

White Collar
2009-10-23

5.833

Six Degrees
2006-09-21

7.853

The Americans
2013-01-30

100 Centre Street

7.7

100 Centre Street
2001-01-15

100 Centre Street

7.7

100 Centre Street
2001-01-15

7.248

Bored to Death
2009-09-20