Sydney Walker
Actor
Biography
Sydney Walker was an American character actor of stage and screen and voice artist, with a career that spanned over five decades. He is most known for Prelude to a Kiss (elderly man Meg Ryan's character switches bodies with), and as the bus driver on Mrs. Doubtfire.
Walker made his Broadway debut as the Archbishop of Canterbury in the famous 1960 production of Jean Anouilh's "Beckett," which starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn. He subsequently appeared in 22 Broadway productions from 1960 to 1973.
Walker made his movie debut in the Kirk Douglas movie A Lovely Way to Die (1968) and played the doctor in Love Story (1970). He made five appearances on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974. His last film was Getting Even with Dad (1994), but his most famous movie role came two years earlier in the film adaptation of Prelude to a Kiss (1992), in which he reprized the role of the Old Man he had assayed in the 1988 Berkeley Repertory production of the Craig Lucas play.
Filmography
Love Story
as Dr. Shapeley 1970
The Ewok Adventure
as Deej Warrick (voice) 1984
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
as Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice) 1985
Getting Even with Dad
as Mr. Wankmueller 1994
Prelude to a Kiss
as Old Man 1992
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
as Psychiatrist 1970
Fine Things
as Rabbi 1990
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
as Narrator 1977
Shadow of a Doubt
as Mr. Granville 1991
Long Road Home
as Kleindecker 1991
Eye on the Sparrow
as Obstetrician 1987
Enemies
as Levshin 1974
A Christmas Carol
as Fezziwig 1981