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Bill Walters
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 cartoon…
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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.
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2018
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Movie Homeless Man (uncredited)
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2017
The Dark Tower
Movie Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)
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2017
John Wick: Chapter 2
Movie Homeless Man in Chinatown (uncredited)
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2017
Marjorie Prime
Movie Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)
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2016
The Comedian
Movie Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)
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2016
Barry
Movie Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)
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2015
Sisters
Movie Airport Traveler (uncredited)
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2015
The Night Before
Movie Christmas Bartender (uncredited)
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2015
Ricki and the Flash
Movie Salt Well Regular (uncredited)
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2015
True Story
Movie Inmate (uncredited)
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2014
A Most Violent Year
Movie Subway Rider (uncredited)
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2014
Annie
Movie Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited)
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2014
Shelter
Movie Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited)
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2013
The Americans
TV show Homeless at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
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2012
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Movie Homeless Dude
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2012
Being Flynn
Movie Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited)
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2012
Man on a Ledge
Movie Inmate
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2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Movie Homeless Man (uncredited)
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2010
The Extra Man
Movie Panhandler
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2010
You Don't Know Jack
Movie Michigan Inmate (uncredited)
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2010
Fair Game
Movie Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited)
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2009
White Collar
TV show Weird Guy in Lobby
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2009
Bored to Death
TV show Barfly (uncredited)
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2009
Back
Movie Homeless at Bowling Green
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2008
The Wrestler
Movie Wrestling Fan (uncredited)
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2008
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Movie Homeless at PABT (uncredited)
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2007
Enchanted
Movie 42nd Street BG (uncredited)
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2006
P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem!
Movie Manager of the Stage
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2006
Six Degrees
TV show Subway Rider (uncredited)
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2002
Analyze That
Movie Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited)
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2001
Riding in Cars with Boys
Movie Hippie at Party (uncredited)
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2001
100 Centre Street
TV show Perp (uncredited)
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1991
The Refrigerator
Movie Eileen's Father
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1969
Midnight Cowboy
Movie St. Bernard Owner (uncredited)
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1967
Wait Until Dark
Movie BG with Dog (uncredited)
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1966
You're a Big Boy Now
Movie Commerce Street BG (uncredited)
