Sydney Walker was an American character actor of stage and screen and voice artist, with a career that spanned over five decades.
10 Facts About Sydney Walker
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Sydney Walker was especially enamored of death scenes, sometimes enacting them to entertain others.
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Sydney Walker gained more experience through an apprenticeship with the Hedgerow Theatre in Pennsylvania.
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Sydney Walker left there to serve in World War II and then returned.
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Sydney Walker developed his skills further by studying at the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art in Paris, focusing on pantomime and singing.
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Between 1966 and 1969 Sydney Walker was a principal player in Ellis Rabb's APA-Phoenix Repertory Company in New York City working with an extraordinary group including Rosemary Harris, Donald Moffet, Keene Curtis, Paul Sparer, Nancy Marchand, all of whom were to have significant careers in movies, television and theatre.
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Sydney Walker had a small role in the 1993 hit Mrs Doubtfire as the bus driver who finds a small attraction to Mrs Doubtfire, and played Mr Wankmueller in the 1994 Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson comedy Getting Even with Dad.
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Sydney Walker provided the voice for the children's toy "Grampa Time".
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Sydney Walker immortalized roles such as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Lord Porteus in Somerset Maugham's The Circle, and Ash in The National Health by Peter Nichols, among many others.
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On September 30,1994, Sydney Walker died of cancer in San Francisco, California.