Martin Walker (actor)
{{Short description|British actor (1901–1955)}}
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| birth_date = 27 July 1901
| birth_place = Harrow, London
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| death_date = {{death-date and age|18 September 1955|27 July 1901}}
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| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1922-1954
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Martin Walker (27 July 1901 – 18 September 1955) was a British stage and screen actor.{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/mm0/martin-walker|title=Martin Walker - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/martin-walker-p74278|title=Martin Walker - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}} He appeared in films for over thirty years from 1922 onwards, mainly in supporting roles and occasionally as a lead, such as in Help Yourself (1932).Sutton p.256
The actor also wrote and directed a short film, Hide and Seek, in 1922. He made his final film appearance in The Belles of St. Trinian's in 1954.
Selected filmography
- A Bill of Divorcement (1922)
- The Flying Fool (1931)
- Help Yourself (1932)
- Mimi (1935)
- Lieut. Daring R.N. (1935)
- Sanders of the River (1935)
- The Drum (1938)
- Murder in Soho (1939)
- Hell's Cargo (1939)
- Love on the Dole (1941)
- This England (1941)
- The Night Invader (1943)
- Lisbon Story (1946)
- The Woman in the Hall (1947)
- Black 13 (1953)
- The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
References
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Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Sutton, David R. A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0908013}}
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Category:British male film actors
Category:Male actors from London
Category:20th-century British male actors
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Harrow
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