Peter Walker (20)

Peter Walker, a native New Yorker, is an actor, a singer, a lyricist, a photographer, a writer, a gardener, a sculptor, children's book author and, for two years in the late 1950s, the Marlboro Man. He has been leading man for the likes of Carol Channing, Betty Grable, and Imogene Coca. He was Alexander Graham Bell for an electronics company advertisement, and Woodrow Wilson in a historical videotape series. He was known to Broadway audiences through FOLLIES, DEAR WORLD, DRACULA, WHERE'S CHARLEY, INTO THE LIGHT and MY OLD FRIENDS, which garnered him a Drama Desk nomination as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. His favorite film work has been as Salesman in The Music Man; the Balloonist in To Fly; Sommerville in Boris Karloff's thriller The Last of the Sommervilles and as the American in the French film, Si Tous Les Gars Du Monde, filmed during his six-year live-in love affair with Paris. He is was on film as the skipper instructor for the "U.S. Power Squadron's Boating Course," William Morrow's first instructional video tape. He has made Clio-winning commercials for everything from Coca-Cola to Volkswagens. He is very proud to have three of his lyrics in TOUCH OF THE CHILD, having collaborated with Max Showalter since 1960 on many projects including Broadway's HARRIGAN 'N HART.