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Sydney Walker

出生 : 1921-05-05, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

死亡 : 1994-09-30

略歴

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.

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ミセス・ダウト

Bus Driver

サンフランシスコのとある街、失業した俳優、ダニエル・ヒラードは、3人の子どもが自分の全てというほどの、子煩悩な父親。しかし収入のない夫に代わって一家の家計を担っているやり手デザイナーの妻ミランダは、自分が連日疲れきって帰宅しても家事に全く協力せず子供達との遊びにかまけている夫や、自分だけが仕事に家事にと追われている事に強いストレスを感じていた。長男クリスの誕生日、ミランダの留守中に自宅でパーティを開き、大騒ぎを起こしたダニエルは、堪忍袋の緒が切れたミランダからとうとう離婚の意思を告げられる。生活能力のないダニエルは養育権を奪われ、週一度限られた時間にしか子どもたちに会えなくなった。やがてミランダが仕事の忙しさで家政婦を募集していることを知ったダニエルは一計を案じ、メイクアップアーティストの兄の手を借りて、イギリスの老婦人ミセス・ダウトファイアにすっかり変身する。持ち前の演技力と女装で見事にミランダを騙し、家政婦として最愛の子供たちのそばにいられることになるが、それは同時にこれまで家事全般を省みた事のないダニエルの、抱腹絶倒の奮闘記の幕開けであった。

Prelude to a Kiss

Prelude to a Kiss

Old Man

A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt

Mr. Granville

Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has a deep, dark secret. And knowledge of that secret by anyone can prove to be deadly.

Rabbi

Bernard Fine's career leaves little time for romance, so fate takes over. When Bernie befriends a little girl, he meets - and falls for - her single mother, Liz. They soon marry and add a son to their new family. But the happiness is short-lived as Liz is fatally stricken by cancer. Added to the heartbreak is a threat from the past that could tear the family apart. For Bernie, it's a struggle to hold on to and savor the truly fine things in life.

Eye on the Sparrow

Eye on the Sparrow

Obstetrician

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

EWOKS／決戦！エンドアの森

EWOKS／決戦！エンドアの森

Voice Characterization (Deej) (voice)

ある日イウォークの村が、テラク卿の一団に襲撃を受ける。それによりシンデルの両親と兄が死亡。イウォークたちもテラク一味に捕らえられてしまった。天涯孤独になったシンデルは親友ウィケットと共に、行く宛てもないまま村を離れることに。その途中ティークという謎の動物に招かれ、ある小屋へと導かれる２人。そこには偏屈な老人ノアが住んでいた。彼は大昔に友人サラクと共に宇宙探査に出発したが、エンドアに墜落。その後サラクは行方不明となり、1人で宇宙船を修理しながらその小屋に住んでいたのだ。

EWOKS／勇気のキャラバン

Deej (voice)

ジェレミット、キャサリン、メイス、シンデルの親子は母星を離れ宇宙船で飛行中、エンドアという星に不時着。そのうえジェレミットとキャサリンは森でゴラックスという怪物に捕らえられてしまう。あとには幼い兄妹メイスとシンデルが残されるが、幸いエンドアの住人であるイウォークに救われ命拾い。心優しく聡明なイウォークたちは2人に食料や薬を与え、両親がゴラックスに捕らえられた事実まで探り出す。両親の危機を知り、何としても救いに行きたいメイスとシンデル。イウォークたちもその熱意に打たれ危険を承知で同行を決意する。

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Fezziwig

Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens' novella.

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

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

Narrator

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14 children [12 at the start of filming], some of whom are severely disabled war orphans -- in addition to raising Dorothy's five biological children and Bob's biological daughter. The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1978.

Levshin

This powerful drama about the social ferment that culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution is set on an estate in provincial Russia in 1905. In a sun-dappled garden, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside. The play goes beyond depicting class struggle by keenly examining the gulfs between youth and old age, vision and shortsightedness, and conservatism versus change.

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Psychiatrist

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.

ある愛の詩

Dr. Shapeley

名家の四世、オリバーとイタリア移民の娘、ジェニーは次第に惹かれ合い、父の反対を押し切ったオリバーは、ハーバードの法律学校へ入る少し前にジェニーと結婚。送金は中止されるが、学費や生活費の為にジェニーは働き、貧しいながらも幸せな日々を送っていた。そしてオリバーは優秀な成績で卒業し法律事務所へ勤めるため２人はニューヨークへ移るのだった。

The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Lincoln

A mid-life crisis propels a disaffected advertising executive out of his marriage and into a series of disastrous love affairs with a series of women. He will eventually return to his wife, chastened.