Sydney Walker

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.

Known For

Mrs. Doubtfire

as Bus Driver

Love Story

as Dr. Shapeley

The Ewok Adventure

as Deej (voice)

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

as Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice)

Prelude to a Kiss

as Old Man

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

as Psychiatrist

Great Performances

as Levshin

Fine Things

as Rabbi

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

as Narrator

Shadow of a Doubt

as Mr. Granville