Walter Burke
Walter Burke
Diminutive Irish-American character actor Walter Burke kicked off his film career in 1948. Burke's weaselly, cigarette-dangling-from-lips characterization of political flunky Sugar Boy in the Oscar-winning All the King's Men (1949) set the tone for most of his later roles. Though often afforded meaty roles on television -- he was one of several actors who subbed for William Talman during the 1960-1961 season of Perry Mason -- Burke had no objection to accepting tiny but memorable bits, such as the cockney who warns Eliza Doolittle, "There's a bloke be'ind that pillar, takin' down every word that you're sayin'!" in the opening scene of My Fair Lady (1964). In another unbilled assignment, Burke convincingly voice-doubled for narrator Walter Winchell in a handful of early-'60s episodes of The Untouchables. Closing out his film career in the early '70s, Walter Burke moved to Pennsylvania, where he became an acting teacher. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Walter Burke:
- All the King's Men with Broderick Crawford , John Derek , Joanne Dru , John Ireland , Mercedes McCambridge , Shepperd Strudwick , Anne Seymour , Raymond Greenleaf , Will Wright , Grandon Rhodes , Richard Hale , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Paul Ford , Louis Mason , Paul Maxey , John "Skins" Miller , Pat O'Malley , Frank Wilcox , King Donovan
- Support Your Local Gunfighter with James Garner , Suzanne Pleshette , Jack Elam , Joan Blondell , Harry Morgan , John Dehner , Marie Windsor , Willis B. Bouchey , Chuck Connors , Ben Cooper , Ellen Corby , Dick Curtis , Gene Evans , Kathleen Freeman , Henry Jones , Grady Sutton , Dub Taylor , Herb Vigran
- Naked City with Barry Fitzgerald , Howard Duff , Don Taylor , Ted DeCorsia , Frank Conroy , Paul Ford , Kathleen Freeman , Raymond Greenleaf , James Gregory , Perc Launders , George Lynn , John Marley , Arthur O'Connell , David Opatoshu , Nehemiah Persoff , John Randolph , Lee Shumway , Elliott Sullivan , Mark Hellinger
- My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn , Rex Harrison , Stanley Holloway , Wilfrid Hyde-White , Gladys Cooper , Jeremy Brett , Theodore Bikel , Mona Washbourne , John Holland , Marjorie Bennett , Betty Blythe , Robert Coote , Henry Daniell , Isobel Elsom , Sam Harris , Colin Kenny , John McLiam , John Mitchum , Alan Napier , Barbara Pepper , Grady Sutton , Ben Wright , Colin Campbell
- How the West Was Won with James Stewart , Henry Fonda , Gregory Peck , Debbie Reynolds , Richard Widmark , George Peppard , Karl Malden , John Wayne , Carolyn Jones , Robert Preston , Eli Wallach , Carroll Baker , Lee J. Cobb , Walter Brennan , David Brian , Andy Devine , Raymond Massey , Agnes Moorehead , Thelma Ritter , Mickey Shaughnessy , Russ Tamblyn , Rodolpho Acosta , Willis B. Bouchey , Paul Bryar , Lee VanCleef , Ken Curtis , Jay C. Flippen , Saul Gorss , James Griffith , William Henry , Jack Lambert , John Larch , Boyd "Red" Morgan , Gil Perkins , Walter Reed , Chuck Roberson , Gene Roth , Harry Dean Stanton , Clinton Sundberg , Karl Swenson , Spencer Tracy , Carleton G. Young , Jack Pennick , Joseph Sawyer
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