Casey Walters

{{short description|American film, television and theatre actor}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Casey Walters

|image = Casey Walters in Man with a Camera (Eyewitness).jpg

|caption = Walters in Man with a Camera, 1959

|birth_date = {{birth date|1916|06|25}}

|birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1991|12|03|1916|06|25}}

|death_place = Helena, Montana, U.S.

|occupation = Film, television and theatre actor

|years_active = 1948–1967

}}

Casey Walters (June 25, 1916 – December 3, 1991) was an American film, television and theatre actor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683894360/|title=In The News|work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News|location=Hollywood, California|date=August 16, 1957|access-date=November 17, 2021|page=15|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He was known for playing the role of Sgt. Jim Warren in the American police procedural television series Harbor Command.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nypl.org/the/22775|title=Robert Crawley and Casey Walters papers: 1939-1986|work=New York Public Library|access-date=November 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117232115/https://archives.nypl.org/the/22775|archive-date=November 17, 2021|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDsYAgAAQBAJ|title=Television Introductions: Narrated TV Program Openings since 1949|page=84|first=Vincent|last=Terrace|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=November 7, 2013|isbn=9780810892507|via=Google Books}}

Born in Boston, Massachusetts. Walters began his career in 1948, as appearing in the Broadway play Mister Roberts,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/445740525/|title='Mister Roberts' Hilarious, Touching Play Which Is Flawless on Stage|first=John|last=Chapman|work=Daily News|location=New York, New York|date=February 29, 1948|access-date=November 17, 2021|page=163|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/580105742/|title=Walter To Play Narcotics Officer|work=The Valley Times|location=North Hollywood, California|date=August 22, 1957|access-date=November 17, 2021|page=17|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} where he played the role of “Dolan”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/casey-walters-77302|title=Casey Walters|work=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=November 17, 2021}}

Later in his career, Walters appeared in another Broadway play, titled, Red Roses for Me,

playing the role of “Mulcany”. His final Broadway credit was from the play A Minor Adjustment, in which he played the role of “Cameron Clark”. In his film and television career, Walters co-starred in the police procedural television series Harbor Command playing the role of “Sgt. Jim Warren”, in which Walters starred with Wendell Corey who played the role of “Captain Ralph Baxter”.

Walters died in December 1991 of a stroke in Helena, Montana, at the age of 75.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTjjq1o8AcgC&pg=PA241|title=Theatre World 1991-1992|page=241|first=John|last=Willis|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|date=1994|isbn=9781557831439|via=Google Books}}