Walter Burke

• Born: 1909
• Died: Aug 09, 1984 in Woodland Hills, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '50s-'70s
• Major Genres: Western, Comedy
• Career Highlights: The Lucy Show: Lucy Goes to London, Bonanza: Destiny's Child, The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish
• First Major Screen Credit: The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish (1960)

Biography

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

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