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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 11, 1937
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- William Albert Walters
Bill Walters
0.2 Popularity
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
6.8
Homeless Man (uncredited)
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018
5.8
Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)
The Dark Tower
2017
7.3
Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited)
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
6.1
Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)
Marjorie Prime
2017
5.7
Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)
The Comedian
2016
5.7
Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)
Barry
2016
6.0
Airport Traveler (uncredited)
Sisters
2015
6.1
Christmas Bartender (uncredited)
The Night Before
2015
5.8
Salt Well Regular (uncredited)
Ricki and the Flash
2015
6.3
Inmate (uncredited)
True Story
2015
Credits
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
as Homeless Man (uncredited)
2018
6.8
The Dark Tower
as Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)
2017
5.8
John Wick: Chapter 2
as Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited)
2017
7.3
Marjorie Prime
as Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)
2017
6.1
The Comedian
as Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)
2016
5.7
Barry
as Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)
2016
5.7
Sisters
as Airport Traveler (uncredited)
2015
6.0
The Night Before
as Christmas Bartender (uncredited)
2015
6.1
Ricki and the Flash
as Salt Well Regular (uncredited)
2015
5.8
True Story
as Inmate (uncredited)
2015
6.3
A Most Violent Year
as Subway Rider (uncredited)
2014
6.6
Annie
as Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited)
2014
6.2
Shelter
as Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited)
2014
5.9
The Americans
as Homeless at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
2013
7.9
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
as Homeless Dude
2012
4.3
Being Flynn
as Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited)
2012
6.2
Man on a Ledge
as Inmate
2012
6.4
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Homeless Man (uncredited)
2011
7.0
The Extra Man
as Panhandler
2010
5.8
You Don't Know Jack
as Michigan Inmate (uncredited)
2010
7.0
Fair Game
as Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited)
2010
6.5
White Collar
as Weird Guy in Lobby
2009
8.2
Bored to Death
as Barfly (uncredited)
2009
7.3
🎬
Back
as Homeless at Bowling Green
2009
0.0
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
as Homeless at PABT (uncredited)
2008
6.4
The Wrestler
as Wrestling Fan (uncredited)
2008
7.5
Enchanted
as 42nd Street BG (uncredited)
2007
6.8
P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have A Problem!
as Manager of the Stage
2006
0.0
Six Degrees
as Subway Rider (uncredited)
2006
5.8
Analyze That
as Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited)
2002
5.8
Riding in Cars with Boys
as Hippie at Party (uncredited)
2001
6.7
100 Centre Street
as Perp (uncredited)
2001
7.7
100 Centre Street
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
2001
7.7
The Refrigerator
as Eileen's Father
1991
4.0
Midnight Cowboy
as St. Bernard Owner (uncredited)
1969
7.5
Wait Until Dark
as BG with Dog (uncredited)
1967
7.3
You're a Big Boy Now
as Commerce Street BG (uncredited)
1966
6.1