Johnnie Walker (January 7, 1894 – December 5, 1949), sometimes credited as Johnny Walker, was an American actor and producer popular from the silent era to the late 1930s. He appeared in a variety of short and feature films, including the highly successful features ''

Captain Fly-by-Night ''Captain Fly-by-Night'' is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by William K. Howard and starring Johnnie Walker, Francis McDonald, and Shannon Day.Munden p. 110. Set in historic Spanish California, it was inspired by the success of ...

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Over the Hill to the Poorhouse ''Over the Hill to the Poorhouse'', also known as ''Over the Hill'', is a 1920 American silent drama film about a woman who has a lot of children, and who never gets the chance to enjoy life. The film starred actress Mary Carr and almost all of ...

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Broken Hearts of Broadway ''Broken Hearts of Broadway'' is a 1923 silent film drama produced and directed by Irving Cummings and starring Colleen Moore, Johnnie Walker and Alice Lake. It is based on a 1917 play ''Broken Hearts of Broadway'' by James Kyrle McCurdy. Cast ...

'' and '' Old Ironsides''.''Silent Film Necrology'' 2nd edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana He began his film career in 1915.

Background

The eldest son of William (1865–1940) and Johanna Walker (1871–1942), he was born John William Walker in New York City on January 7, 1894. His father was a New York City plumber. Young Walker served as a pay clerk in the United States Naval Reserve Force (December 1918-May 1919).

Partial filmography

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Destruction Destruction may refer to: Concepts * Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger * Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism * Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that ''conceptualises'' certain ki ...

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Cohen's Luck ''Cohen's Luck'' is a 1915 American silent comedy film directed by John H. Collins and starring William Wadsworth, Lillian Devere and Viola Dana.Langman p.334 Plot Cast * William Wadsworth as Abe Cohen * Lillian Devere as Cohen's Wife * ...

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On Dangerous Paths ''On Dangerous Paths'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by John H. Collins and starring Viola Dana, Helen Strickland and Pat O'Malley.Langman p.141 Cast * Viola Dana as Eleanor Thurston * Helen Strickland as Mrs. Thurston * Wi ...

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Greater Than Fame ''Greater Than Fame'' is a 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Selznick Pictures. It was directed by Alan Crosland and stars Elaine Hammerstein. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot As described in ...

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Fantômas Fantômas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared ...

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Bachelor Apartments ''Bachelor Apartments'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Johnnie Walker.Connelly p.319 It was distributed by the Arrow Film Corporation. Cast * Georgia Hopkins as June Shelton * Fred Howard as I.O. Underwood * George Dupree as ...

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What Love Will Do ''What Love Will Do'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by William K. Howard and starring Edna Murphy, Johnnie Walker and Barbara Tennant.Solomon p.272 Cast * Edna Murphy as Mary Douglas * Johnnie Walker as Johnny Rowan * Glen Cave ...

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Play Square ''Play Square'' is a 1921 American silent film, silent drama film directed by William K. Howard and starring Johnnie Walker (actor), Johnnie Walker, Edna Murphy and Laura La Plante.Solomon p.271 Cast * Johnnie Walker (actor), Johnnie Walker as Jo ...

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The Jolt The Jolt were a Scottish band formed in Wishaw, Scotland in September 1976. History At the time, Robbie Collins and Jim Doaks were clerks in the civil service and Iain Shedden was a music journalist for a local paper. They had known each ...

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Extra! Extra! ''Extra! Extra!'' is a 1922 American silent adventure romance film directed by William K. Howard and starring Edna Murphy, Johnnie Walker, Herschel Mayall, Clarence Wilson, and John Steppling. The film was released by Fox Film Corporatio ...

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'' (1922) *'' The Third Alarm'' (1922) *''

The Fourth Musketeer ''The Fourth Musketeer'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by William K. Howard and starring Johnnie Walker, Eileen Percy and Eddie Gribbon.Munden p.272 Synopsis A boxer quits the ring to set up as a garage mechanic. Life is compl ...

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Mary of the Movies ''Mary of the Movies'' is a 1923 American silent semi-autobiographical comedy film based on the career of Marion Mack. It was written by Mack and her husband Louis Lewyn, and stars Mack and Creighton Hale. Hale and director John McDermott pl ...

'' (1923) *'' Red Lights'' (1923) *''

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Children of Dust ''Children of Dust'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Johnnie Walker, Pauline Garon, and Lloyd Hughes.Munden p. 124. Cast * Johnnie Walker as Terwilliger * Pauline Garon as Helen Raymond * Lloyd ...

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Fashionable Fakers ''Fashionable Fakers'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by William Worthington and starring Johnnie Walker, Mildred June and Lillian Lawrence.Munden p.231 It was released in Britain with the alternative title ''A Going Concern''. ...

'' (1923) *'' The Mailman'' (1923) *''

Wine of Youth ''Wine of Youth'' is a 1924 American silent comedy drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shortly after the merger which created MGM in April 1924. Vidor did not consider it important enough to mention in his ...

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Life's Greatest Game Life's Greatest Game is a 1924 American silent melodrama directed by Emory Johnson. FBO released the film in October 1924. The film's "All-Star" cast included Johnnie Walker, Tom Santschi, Jane Thomas, David Kirby, and Gertrude Olmstead. ...

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Galloping Hoofs ''Galloping Hoofs'' is a 1924 American silent Western film serial directed by George B. Seitz and starring Allene Ray and Johnnie Walker. The film is now considered to be lost. Cast * Allene Ray as Carole Page * Johnnie Walker as David Ki ...

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The Mad Dancer ''The Mad Dancer'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Ann Pennington, Johnnie Walker, and Coit Albertson. Synopsis Mimi, a dancer who lives in the Latin Quarter of Paris, poses nude for a sculpture. Whe ...

'' (1925) *'' Lena Rivers'' (1925) *''

The Scarlet West ''The Scarlet West'' is a 1925 American silent historical drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Robert Frazer and Clara Bow. It was distributed by the First National company. This was an ambitious silent film made by an independe ...

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Lilies of the Streets ''Lilies of the Streets'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Levering and starring Virginia Lee Corbin, Wheeler Oakman, and Johnnie Walker Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch whisky now owned by Diageo that originated in ...

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The Reckless Sex ''The Reckless Sex'' is a 1925 American melodrama film directed by Alan James from a screenplay by Travers Wells. The film stars Madge Bellamy, William Collier Jr., and Wyndham Standing. Plot Robert Lanning Jr. is sent by his father in Bost ...

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Children of the Whirlwind ''Children of the Whirlwind'' is a 1925 American silent crime drama film directed by Whitman Bennett and starring Lionel Barrymore, Johnnie Walker, and Marguerite De La Motte. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young man freshly re ...

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The Earth Woman ''The Earth Woman'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Walter Lang. A print of this film was located in April 2021 in a film archive. Cast * Mary Alden as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman) * Priscilla Bonner as Sally * Russell Sim ...

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Lightning Reporter ''Lightning Reporter'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by John W. Noble and starring Johnnie Walker, Sylvia Breamer and Burr McIntosh.Munden p.435 Cast * Johnnie Walker as Jimmy Blaine - Cub Reporter * Sylvia Breamer as Ruth Barlow ...

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Morganson's Finish ''Morganson's Finish'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Fred Windemere and starring Anita Stewart, Johnnie Walker and Mahlon Hamilton.Munden p.525 Cast * Anita Stewart as Barbara Wesley * Johnnie Walker as Dick Gilbert * Mah ...

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Honesty – The Best Policy ''Honesty – The Best Policy'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Chester Bennett and Albert Ray and starring Rockliffe Fellowes, Pauline Starke and Johnnie Walker.Solomon p.299 Cast * Rockliffe Fellowes as Nick Randall * ...

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Fangs of Justice ''Fangs of Justice'' is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Johnnie Walker and June Marlowe.Munden p.230-31 Cast * Johnnie Walker as Terry Randall * June Marlowe as Janet Morgan * Wheeler Oakman as Pa ...

'' (1926) *'' Old Ironsides'' (1926) *'' The Clown'' (1927) *''

The Snarl of Hate ''The Snarl of Hate'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Johnnie Walker, Mildred June and Jack Richardson.Woods p.140 Cast * Johnnie Walker as Charles Taylor / Robert Taylor * Mildred June as Laura Warre ...

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Held by the Law ''Held by the Law'' is a 1927 American crime film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue. The film stars Ralph Lewis, Johnnie Walker, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert Ober, Fred Kelsey and Maude Wayne. The film was released on Ap ...

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Good Time Charley ''Good Time Charley'' is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film apparently had a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects. It was considered to be a lost film. How ...

'' (1927) *'' The Swell-Head'' (1927) *''

The Princess on Broadway ''The Princess on Broadway'' is a 1927 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Pauline Garon, Dorothy Dwan and Johnnie Walker.Munden p.619 Cast * Pauline Garon as Mary Ryan * Dorothy Dwan as Rose Ryan ...

'' (1927) *'' Wolves of the Air'' (1927) *''

Pretty Clothes ''Pretty Clothes'' is a 1927 American silent drama film, directed by Phil Rosen. It stars Jobyna Ralston, Gertrude Astor, and Johnny Walker, and was released on October 15, 1927. Cast list *Jobyna Ralston as Marion Dunbar *Gertrude Astor as Ro ...

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Rose of the Bowery ''Rose of the Bowery'' is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Edna Murphy, * Crauford Kent and Mildred Harris.Connelly p.404 Synopsis A baby is accidentally left the house of a criminal and grows up in New ...

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Bare Knees ''Bare Knees'' is a 1928 American silent film comedy drama directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Virginia Lee Corbin as Billie Durey, the family's black sheep, who returns to her small hometown causing a sensation with her short skirts, cigare ...

'' (1928) *'' So This Is Love?'' (1928) *''

The Matinee Idol ''The Matinee Idol'' is a 1928 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Prints are in the archives of the Cinémathèque Fran ...

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Vultures of the Sea ''Vultures of the Sea'' is a 1928 American adventure film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be lost. Cast * Johnnie Walker * Shirley Mason * Tom Santschi * Frank Hagney * Boris Karloff - Grouchy * Horace B. Carpen ...

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Melody Man ''The Melody Man'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama musical film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Roy William Neill and starred John St. Polis, Alice Day and William Collier, Jr. The story is based on a Broad ...

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Ladies of Leisure ''Ladies of Leisure'' is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ralph Graves. The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the 1924 play ''Ladies of the Evening'' by Milton Herbert Gr ...

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Ladies in Love ''Ladies in Love'' (1936) is a romantic comedy film based upon the play by Leslie Bush-Fekete. It was directed by Edward H. Griffith and stars Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Loretta Young. The film revolves around three roommates (Gaynor, ...

'' (1930) *'' The Girl of the Golden West'' (1930) *''

Enemies of the Law ''Enemies of the Law'' is a 1931 American crime film directed by Lawrence C. Windom and starring Mary Nolan, Johnnie Walker and Lou Tellegen.Wagner p.128 Cast * Mary Nolan as Florence Vinton * Johnnie Walker as Larry Marsh * Lou Tellegen as Eddi ...

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The Swellhead ''The Swellhead'' is a 1930 American pre-Code sports film directed by James Flood and starring James Gleason, Johnnie Walker, and Marion Shilling. It is also known by the alternative title of ''Counted Out''. Cast * James Gleason as Joh ...

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References

External links

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Johnnie Walker ; allmovie bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Johnnie 1894 births 1949 deaths Male actors from New York City