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Actor Born: 1909 Death: August 9, 1984 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:Diminutive Irish-American character actor "Walter Burke" kicked off his film career in 1948. Burke's weaselly, cigarette-dangling-from-lips characterization of political flunky Sugar Boy in the Oscar-winning "All the King's Men" (1949) set the tone for most of his later roles. Though often afforded meaty roles on television -- he was one of several actors who subbed for "William Talman" during the 1960-1961 season of Perry Mason -- Burke had no objection to accepting tiny but memorable bits, such as the cockney who warns Eliza Doolittle, "There's a bloke be'ind that pillar, takin' down every word that you're sayin'!" in the opening scene of "My Fair Lady" (1964). In another unbilled assignment, Burke convincingly voice-doubled for narrator "Walter Winchell" in a handful of early-'60s episodes of "The Untouchables". Closing out his film career in the early '70s, "Walter Burke" moved to Pennsylvania,... Full Biography
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