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 Ryans 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 Anouilhs 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.

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Mrs. Doubtfire

Bus Driver

Movie 1993

Prelude to a Kiss

Old Man

Movie 1992

Love Story

Dr. Shapeley

Movie 1970

Eye on the Sparrow

Obstetrician

Movie 1987

Enemies

Levshin

Movie 1974

Shadow of a Doubt

Mr. Granville

Movie 1991

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Psychiatrist

Movie 1970

Fine Things

Rabbi

Movie 1990

A Christmas Carol

Fezziwig

Movie 1981

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

Narrator

Movie 1977

The Ewok Adventure

Deej (voice)

Movie 1984

The Way We Live Now

Lincoln

Movie 1970

Tv series unavailable from Sydney Walker

Great Performances

Levshin

Tv 1971