Bill Walters

Bill Walters

Born: December 11, 1937
in Columbus, Ohio, USA
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.

Movies for Bill Walters...

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Title: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Character: Homeless Man (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
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The Dark Tower
Title: The Dark Tower
Character: Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 2017
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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John Wick: Chapter 2
Title: John Wick: Chapter 2
Character: Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 2017
Type: Movie
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
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Marjorie Prime
Title: Marjorie Prime
Character: Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)
Released: January 23, 2017
Type: Movie
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
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The Comedian
Title: The Comedian
Character: Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 2016
Type: Movie
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
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Barry
Title: Barry
Character: Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: Airport Traveler (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
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The Night Before
Title: The Night Before
Character: Christmas Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 2015
Type: Movie
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
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Ricki and the Flash
Title: Ricki and the Flash
Character: Salt Well Regular (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
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True Story
Title: True Story
Character: Inmate (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
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A Most Violent Year
Title: A Most Violent Year
Character: Subway Rider (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
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Annie
Title: Annie
Character: Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
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Shelter
Title: Shelter
Character: Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
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Title: The Americans
Character: Homeless at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: TV
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Title: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Character: Homeless Dude
Released: March 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy must search high and low throughout the streets of Manhattan for clues to unlock the mysterious box he received a month before his birthday.
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Being Flynn
Title: Being Flynn
Character: Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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Man on a Ledge
Title: Man on a Ledge
Character: Inmate
Released: January 13, 2012
Type: Movie
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Title: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Character: Homeless Man (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
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The Extra Man
Title: The Extra Man
Character: Panhandler
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
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Fair Game
Title: Fair Game
Character: Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Wife and mother Valerie Plame has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched uranium to Iraq, Then Valerie's secret work and identity is leaked to the press. With her cover blown and other people endangered, Valerie's career and personal life begin to unravel.
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You Don't Know Jack
Title: You Don't Know Jack
Character: Michigan Inmate (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
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Title: White Collar
Character: Weird Guy in Lobby
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: TV
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Title: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Character: Homeless at PABT (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while searching for Norah's drunken friend, Caroline, with help from Nick's band mates. As the night winds down, the two have to figure out what they want from each other.
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The Wrestler
Title: The Wrestler
Character: Wrestling Fan (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
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Enchanted
Title: Enchanted
Character: 42nd Street BG (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 2007
Type: Movie
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
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Analyze That
Title: Analyze That
Character: Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 2002
Type: Movie
The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.
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Riding in Cars with Boys
Title: Riding in Cars with Boys
Character: Hippie at Party (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
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The Refrigerator
Title: The Refrigerator
Character: Eileen's Father
Released: January 11, 1991
Type: Movie
A couple move into a bad apartment in a bad neighborhood in New York. The apartment contains a refrigerator, which is the only thing they like in the place. However, they slowly discover that the refrigerator is a monster which kills people in gruesome ways and then sends them to hell. The refrigerator is already gaining mind control over the husband. What will happen?
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Midnight Cowboy
Title: Midnight Cowboy
Character: St. Bernard Owner (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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Wait Until Dark
Title: Wait Until Dark
Character: BG with Dog (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1967
Type: Movie
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
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You're a Big Boy Now
Title: You're a Big Boy Now
Character: Commerce Street BG (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.