Walter Fitzgerald

Biography

Walter Fitzgerald was a distinguished British character actor.   He was born in 1896 in Devon.   His first film was in 1932 in “Murder In Covent Garden”.   His cinema highlights include “In Which We Serve”, “San Demitro, London”, “The Fallen Idol” and “Treasure Island”.  He went to Hollywood in 1959 to make “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” for Walt Disney.    He died in 1976 in London at the age of 80.

Known For

Doctor Who

as Senex

Around the World in Eighty Days

as Club Member

Treasure Island

as Squire Trelawney

The Fallen Idol

as Dr. Fenton

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

as Lord Fitzpatrick

In Which We Serve

as Colonel Lumsden

The Small Back Room

as Brine

The Cruel Sea

as Warden (uncredited)

H.M.S. Defiant

as Admiral Jackson

The Cockleshell Heroes

as Gestapo Comdt.