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Walter Walker (actor)

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33: 1475: 1452: 215: 105:(March 13, 1864 – December 4, 1947) was an American actor of the stage and screen during the first half of the twentieth century. Born in New York City on March 13, 1864, Walker would have a career in theater prior to entering the film industry. By 1915 he was appearing in 193:. In 1931, Walker would devote his acting energies to the big screen, appearing in over 75 films throughout the rest of the decade. In one of his first films during this decade, he would reprise his role of Henry Jaffrey in the film version of 172:
During the late 1910s, and through the 1920s, Walker would combine his stage career with appearances in several films, having mostly starring or featured roles over half a dozen. His debut film performance would be in the film
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Walker appeared in over 40 feature films during his career, mostly in supporting or smaller roles. Some of the more notable films in which he had either a featured or supporting role included 1933's
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at age 83 on December 4, 1947, in St. Francis Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he had been visiting his daughter and son-in-law.
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From 1915 through 1930 he would appear over a dozen times on the Great White Way, with some of his more notable plays being
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Walker had a long career in theater, eventually rising to appear in Broadway productions, beginning with 1915's
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in 1936, and as Benjamin Franklin in the 1938 film,
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Broadway
Pulitzer Prize
Owen Davis
William A. Brady
Alice Brady
Tony Award
John Cromwell
Theodore Dreiser
Arthur Hopkins
Winifred Allen
Academy Award
Donald Ogden Stewart
Rebound
Ina Claire
Robert Ames
Myrna Loy

Sons of Steel
Flying Down to Rio
Dolores del Río
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Imitation of Life
Claudette Colbert
Warren William
Magnificent Obsession
Irene Dunne

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