Bill Walters
Also Known As: William Albert Walters
Biography: Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1937, Bill attended Grandview Heights High School and the Ohio State University where he majored in fine arts hoping to get into advertising or cartooning. Among his many mementos are a sheaf of rejection slips from The New Yorker and Playboy. He was introduced to the theatre by volunteering to design the set for a friend's student production. He worked on the art staff of the OSU Motion Pictures Department and the University TV station, WOSU. In 1963, after the usual summer stock assignments, he arrived in New York City, where he worked at NBC as a page and as a production assistant. He became a backstage jack-of-all-trades with The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Playhouse of the Ridiculous, and many other regional and off-Broadway theater groups. In 1966 he was hired by Peter Schickele as the stage manager for PDQ Bach, and became known to thousands of concert goers in New York and around the country as the irascible and irritable but always efficient apologist for Schickele's satiric presentations of the infamous "Evening of Musical Madness". Despite his crusty on-stage persona, Bill was for 46 years the technical coordinator, production manager, road manager, and the REAL stage manager of the series of concerts that had its first public performance in 1965 at Town Hall in New York. He once said that he felt like Sky Masterson, the gambler-hero of "Guys and Dolls", who noted that: "There are two things that have been in every hotel room in America: Sky Masterson and the Gideon Bible." Walters continues to work in concerts, theatre, dabbles in background work in movies and TV, writes lots of unproduced plays and film scripts, and teaches film-making and video with kids. He also works for Gray Line New York Sightseeing as a tour guide riding around on the top of a double-decker bus telling lies about New York City to gullible and unwary tourists. He is married to the actress Donegal Browne. Their daughter Samantha Browne-Walters is also an actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Birthday: December 11, 1937
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Gender: Male
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Wait Until Dark
Overview: After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-26
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Overview: Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while searching for Norah's drunken friend, Caroline, with help from Nick's band mates. As the night winds down, the two have to figure out what they want from each other.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Fair Game
Overview: A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-20
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Ricki and the Flash
Overview: Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-10
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True Story
Overview: A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-17
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Annie
Overview: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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A Most Violent Year
Overview: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Shelter
Overview: Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Analyze That
Overview: The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Overview: A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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The Extra Man
Overview: A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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Sisters
Overview: Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-18
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You Don't Know Jack
Overview: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-27
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Barry
Overview: A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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The Wrestler
Overview: Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-07
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The Dark Tower
Overview: A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-03
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Man on a Ledge
Overview: An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-13
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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Overview: Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy must search high and low throughout the streets of Manhattan for clues to unlock the mysterious box he received a month before his birthday.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-06
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Midnight Cowboy
Overview: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-25
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Marjorie Prime
Overview: A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-23
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The Refrigerator
Overview: A couple move into a bad apartment in a bad neighborhood in New York. The apartment contains a refrigerator, which is the only thing they like in the place. However, they slowly discover that the refrigerator is a monster which kills people in gruesome ways and then sends them to hell. The refrigerator is already gaining mind control over the husband. What will happen?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-11
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Being Flynn
Overview: Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Enchanted
Overview: The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-20
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You're a Big Boy Now
Overview: Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-09
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Overview: When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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John Wick: Chapter 2
Overview: John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-08
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The Comedian
Overview: An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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The Night Before
Overview: In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-20
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Riding in Cars with Boys
Overview: In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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