Walter Willison
| Walter Willison | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 24, 1947 Monterey Park, California, USA |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Awards | Theatre World Award (1971) A Special William Inge Award (1987) |
Walter Willison (born June 24, 1947) is an American stage actor. He received a Tony Award nomination and Theatre World Award for his Broadway musical debut in Richard Rodgers' and Martin Charnin's Biblical musical Two by Two.
Walter Willison is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, director and producer. He garnered a Tony Award nomination and Theatre World Award for Richard Rodgers' and Martin Charnin's Two by Two and also starred on Broadway in Norman, Is That You?, the title role in Pippin , Wild and Wonderful, the Tony Award-winning landmark Grand Hotel; as The Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Schwartz's Mass at the inaugural production at The Kennedy Center; A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden; Anyone Can Whistle : Live at Carnegie Hall; Off-Broadway in the title role of Robert Wright & George Forrest's Kean ; and created the role of Alan A. Dale in the workshop of Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan & Peter Sipos' Robin Hood: The Final Adventure. He also starred in films, including: Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women, for which he was personally chosen by Irving Berlin to croon his iconic "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" as Frank Carter, Harry and Walter Go To New York, and he wrote the lyrics for the songs he sings in Fantasies, starring Bo Derek. On TV he starred in the NBC series McDuff, The Talking Dog, Days Of Our Lives, and as Clyde Griffiths, the tragic hero (portrayed on the big screen by Montgomery Clift) in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy on PBS' The Great Novelists.
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