Bill Walters
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.
Annie
as Soup Kitchen Guest (uncredited)Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New...
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John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a...
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The Dark Tower
as Homeless Man in Alley (uncredited)A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the...
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Sisters
as Airport Traveler (uncredited)Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents...
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Enchanted
as 42nd Street BG (uncredited)The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated...
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An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD...
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The Wrestler
as Wrestling Fan (uncredited)Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go...
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A Most Violent Year
as Subway Rider (uncredited)A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent...
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The Night Before
as Christmas Bartender (uncredited)In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best...
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Midnight Cowboy
as St. Bernard Owner (uncredited)Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women;...
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Homeless Man (uncredited)A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he...
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Analyze That
as Sing Sing Inmate (uncredited)The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out....
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
as Homeless at PABT (uncredited)Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows...
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Ricki and the Flash
as Salt Well Regular (uncredited)Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she...
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Wait Until Dark
as BG with Dog (uncredited)After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way....
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Shelter
as Homeless Man with Cart (uncredited)Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how...
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True Story
as Inmate (uncredited)A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo,...
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Riding in Cars with Boys
as Hippie at Party (uncredited)In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles...
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Fair Game
as Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited)A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes...
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Marjorie Prime
as Old Jon (as W.A. Walters)A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman...
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You Don't Know Jack
as Michigan Inmate (uncredited)Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
as Homeless Man (uncredited)When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has...
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The Comedian
as Homeless in Soup Line (uncredited)An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself...
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Being Flynn
as Homeless Man in Shelter (uncredited)Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and...
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The Extra Man
as PanhandlerA man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright...
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Barry
as Homeless Man in Stairwell (uncredited)A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and...
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You're a Big Boy Now
as Commerce Street BG (uncredited)Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love...
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The Refrigerator
as Eileen's FatherA couple move into a bad apartment in a bad neighborhood in New York. The apartment contains a...
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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
as Homeless DudeJeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy must search high and low throughout the streets of...
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White Collar
as Weird Guy in LobbyIn exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help...
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The Americans
as Homeless at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip...
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Bored to Death
as Barfly (uncredited)Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful...
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100 Centre Street
as Perp (uncredited)100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin,...
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100 Centre Street
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin,...
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Six Degrees
as Subway Rider (uncredited)Six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having...
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