
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.

Great Performances
TV • 1971

Mrs. Doubtfire
MOVIE • 1993

Love Story
MOVIE • 1970

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
MOVIE • 1985

Prelude to a Kiss
MOVIE • 1992

The Ewok Adventure
MOVIE • 1984

Fine Things
MOVIE • 1990

Getting Even with Dad
MOVIE • 1994

Puzzle of a Downfall Child
MOVIE • 1970

Eye on the Sparrow
MOVIE • 1987

Long Road Home
MOVIE • 1991

Shadow of a Doubt
MOVIE • 1991

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
MOVIE • 1977

Enemies
MOVIE • 1974

The Way We Live Now
MOVIE • 1970