Sydney Walker

Sydney Walker was an American actor and voice artist who worked on stage and screen for more than five decades. Born in Philadelphia, he started out in small theater productions as a teenager, trained through an apprenticeship at the Hedgerow Theatre, and later studied pantomime and singing in Paris. His professional debut came in 1960, and between 1961 and 1973 he took roles in twenty-eight Broadway plays, earning a Tony nomination in 1967 for The Wild Duck. On film he played Dr. Shapeley in Love Story (1970) and appeared in Puzzle of a Downfall Child that same year, and his most prominent screen role came in Prelude to a Kiss (1992), as a dying elderly man who trades bodies with a newlywed. He also had parts in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Getting Even with Dad (1994), acted on the soap opera The Guiding Light, and later taught acting in San Francisco at the American Conservatory Theater.