Walter Willison

Walter Willison was born on Jun 24, 1947 in USA. Walter Willison's big-screen debut came with Harry and Walter Go to New York directed by Mark Rydell in 1976, strarring Suitor. Walter Willison is known for Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women directed by Buzz Kulik, Paul Shenar stars as Florenz Ziegfeld and Samantha Eggar as Billie Burke. The upcoming new movie Walter Willison plays is Fantasies which will be released on Nov 06, 1981.

Walter Willison is a Tony Award nominee, winner of a Theatre World Award and a Special William Inge Award, and a true Renaissance man; an actor, singer, writer, director and producer. He starred on Broadway in "Grand Hotel: The Musical", "Two By Two", "Pippin", "Norman, Is That You?", "Wild and Wonderful", "A Celebration of Richard Rodgers", "A Gala Tribute to Joshua Logan", "A Celebration of George Abbott", "A Christmas Carol: The Musical" at Madison Square Garden, "Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall"; Bernstein's "Mass: A Theater Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers", the Inaugural presentation of The Kennedy Center, "South Pacific: A 25th Anniversary Concert". Off-Broadway includes the title role in the first ever revival of Wright and Forrest's "Kean" at The York Theater, and he directed and starred as Noah opposite Pat Suzuki in The Jewish Repertory Theatre's "Two By Two: The Richard Rodgers' Centennial Concert". Other notable stage appearances include starring as El Gallo in the historic First International Tour of "The Fantasticks" in Japan, directed by and costarring bookwriter/lyricist Tom Jones with composer Harvey Schmidt at the piano, "It's A Musical World: A Tribute to Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley" with Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse, Tony Bennett at The Hollywood Palladium. At the St. Louis Municipal Opera, he starred as Prince Charming in Walt Disney's "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" opposite Leslie Easterbrook, Perchik in "Fiddler On The Roof" with Herschel Bernardi, and Lancelot in "Camelot" with Tricia O'Neil and David Birney. He has starred in numerous regional productions as Billy Bigelow in "Carousel" and Paul Bertholet in "Carnival" and the national tours of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" and "Your Own Thing".