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Bill Walters‌

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Bill Walters

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Bill Walters

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1937-12-11

Popularity

star1.3

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.

Movie Credits

Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark‌
star7.3
calendar 1967

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist‌
star6.5
calendar 2008

Ricki and the Flash

Ricki and the Flash‌
star5.8
calendar 2015

Analyze That

Analyze That‌
star5.8
calendar 2002

A Most Violent Year

A Most Violent Year‌
star6.6
calendar 2014

Annie

Annie‌
star6.2
calendar 2014

Shelter

Shelter‌
star6.0
calendar 2014

Fair Game

Fair Game‌
star6.5
calendar 2010

True Story

True Story‌
star6.3
calendar 2015

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close‌
star7.0
calendar 2011

The Extra Man

The Extra Man‌
star5.7
calendar 2010

Sisters

Sisters‌
star5.9
calendar 2015

You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack‌
star7.1
calendar 2010

Barry

Barry‌
star5.7
calendar 2016

The Wrestler

The Wrestler‌
star7.5
calendar 2008

The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower‌
star5.7
calendar 2017

Man on a Ledge

Man on a Ledge‌
star6.4
calendar 2012

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life‌
star4.0
calendar 2012

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy‌
star7.5
calendar 1969

Marjorie Prime

Marjorie Prime‌
star6.1
calendar 2017

The Refrigerator

The Refrigerator‌
star4.0
calendar 1991

Being Flynn

Being Flynn‌
star6.1
calendar 2012

Enchanted

Enchanted‌
star6.8
calendar 2007

You're a Big Boy Now

You're a Big Boy Now‌
star6.3
calendar 1966

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?‌
star6.8
calendar 2018

The Night Before

The Night Before‌
star6.1
calendar 2015

John Wick: Chapter 2

John Wick: Chapter 2‌
star7.3
calendar 2017

The Comedian

The Comedian‌
star5.7
calendar 2016

Riding in Cars with Boys

Riding in Cars with Boys‌
star6.8
calendar 2001

Tv Credits

White Collar

White Collar‌
star8.3
calendar 2009

Six Degrees

Six Degrees‌
star6.3
calendar 2006

The Americans

The Americans‌
star7.9
calendar 2013

100 Centre Street

100 Centre Street‌
star7.7
calendar 2001

100 Centre Street

100 Centre Street‌
star7.7
calendar 2001

Bored to Death

Bored to Death‌
star7.3
calendar 2009