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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

December 11, 1937 (age 88)

Place of Birth

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

William Albert Walters

Bill Walters

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.

Known For

Filmography

2018FilmCan You Ever Forgive Me?as Homeless Man (uncredited)2017FilmThe Dark Toweras Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)2017FilmJohn Wick: Chapter 2as Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited)2017FilmMarjorie Primeas Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)2016FilmThe Comedianas Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)2016FilmBarryas Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)2015FilmSistersas Airport Traveler (uncredited)2015FilmThe Night Beforeas Christmas Bartender (uncredited)2015FilmRicki and the Flashas Salt Well Regular (uncredited)2015FilmTrue Storyas Inmate (uncredited)2014FilmA Most Violent Yearas Subway Rider (uncredited)2014FilmAnnieas Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited)2014FilmShelteras Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited)2013TVThe Americansas Homeless at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)2012FilmJeremy Fink and the Meaning of Lifeas Homeless Dude2012FilmBeing Flynnas Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited)2012FilmMan on a Ledgeas Inmate2011FilmExtremely Loud & Incredibly Closeas Homeless Man (uncredited)2010FilmThe Extra Manas Panhandler2010FilmYou Don't Know Jackas Michigan Inmate (uncredited)2010FilmFair Gameas Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited)2009TVWhite Collaras Weird Guy in Lobby2009TVBored to Deathas Barfly (uncredited)2009FilmBackas Homeless at Bowling Green2008FilmNick and Norah's Infinite Playlistas Homeless at PABT (uncredited)2008FilmThe Wrestleras Wrestling Fan (uncredited)2007FilmEnchantedas 42nd Street BG (uncredited)2006FilmP.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem!as Manager of the Stage2006TVSix Degreesas Subway Rider (uncredited)2002FilmAnalyze Thatas Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited)2001FilmRiding in Cars with Boysas Hippie at Party (uncredited)2001TV100 Centre Streetas Perp (uncredited)1991FilmThe Refrigeratoras Eileen's Father1969FilmMidnight Cowboyas St. Bernard Owner (uncredited)1967FilmWait Until Darkas BG with Dog (uncredited)1966FilmYou're a Big Boy Nowas Commerce Street BG (uncredited)

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