11 Facts About Walter Kerr

1.

Walter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theatre critic.

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Walter Kerr was a regular film critic for the St George High School newspaper while a student there, and was a critic for the Evanston News Index.

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Walter Kerr was the editor of the high school newspaper and yearbook.

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Walter Kerr taught speech and drama at The Catholic University of America.

5.

Walter Kerr died from congestive heart failure on October 9,1996.

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Walter Kerr was portrayed pseudonymously by David Niven in the 1960 film Please Don't Eat the Daisies, based on Jean Kerr's best-selling collection of humorous essays.

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Walter Kerr was one of the harshest New York theatre critics of his era, giving the fewest favorable reviews.

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8.

Walter Kerr was well known for panning musicals that were musically ambitious.

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Walter Kerr was notable for his lack of enthusiasm regarding the plays of Samuel Beckett.

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Walter Kerr won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1978 for "articles on the theater".

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In 1983, Walter Kerr was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.