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Walter Corti
Walter Robert Corti (1910–1990) was a Swiss writer, philosopher, and publicist who edited the magazine Du and founded the Pestalozzi Children's Village for war orphans in Trogen.
Walter Crane
Walter Crane (1845-1915), English artist and "father of the illustrated children's book," creator of color toy books with printer Edmund Evans, Arts and Crafts leader, and committed socialist illustrator.
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare was an English poet and fiction writer, 1873 to 1956, known for The Listeners and Peacock Pie and for supernatural fiction treating ghosts as subjective experience.
Walter Emanuel Jones
Walter Emanuel Jones (born 1970, Detroit) is an American actor, martial artist, dancer, and singer who played Zack Taylor, the original Black Ranger, in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1994) and reprised the role in the 2023 Netflix special Once & Always.
Walter Gotell
Walter Gotell (Walter Jacques Goettel), German-born British character actor (1924-1997) best known as KGB General Gogol in six James Bond films (1977-1987) and as Morzeny in From Russia with Love (1963).
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius (1883–1969), German-born architect, founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919 and directed it until 1928; designed the Fagus factory and Dessau Bauhaus building, then taught at Harvard and led TAC in the United States.
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940) was a German Expressionist writer and dramatist whose play Der Sohn was the first Expressionist drama to achieve broad success; his anti-war Antigone won the 1917 Kleist Prize.
Walter Hill
Walter Hill (born 1942, Long Beach, California) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of The Warriors, 48 Hrs., The Driver, and Hard Times, screenwriter of The Getaway, and producer who helped create the Alien franchise.
Walter Huston
Walter Huston, born Walter Thomas Huston, was a Canadian-born American actor and singer who won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston.
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson (born 1952, New Orleans) is an American biographer and journalist, former TIME editor, CNN chairman, and Aspen Institute CEO, author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Elon Musk.
Walter Keane
Walter Keane, American promoter who took credit in the 1960s for the Big Eyes paintings his wife Margaret actually painted; exposed in 1970, lost a Honolulu court paint-off, awarded-damages case, died 2000 in Encinitas, California.
Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn (born 1962, Akron, Ohio) is the American novelist and critic of Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Lost in the Meritocracy, and Blood Will Out; two novels became films, and he edits County Highway.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig (Walter Marvin Koenig), American actor born 1936 in Chicago; played Pavel Chekov on Star Trek (1967–69 and seven films) and Alfred Bester on Babylon 5; also a TV writer, teacher, and memoirist.
Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow, 1920–2000), American actor with the hangdog face; Oscar winner for The Fortune Cookie, two-time Tony winner, and Jack Lemmon's comedy partner from The Odd Couple to Grumpy Old Men.
Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty is James Thurber's fictional henpecked daydreamer from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (The New Yorker, 1939), now a byword for ineffectual fantasists, adapted to film in 1947 (Danny Kaye) and 2013 (Ben Stiller).
Walter Mosley
Walter Ellis Mosley is an American author best known for the Easy Rawlins mysteries set in postwar Los Angeles, beginning with his 1990 debut Devil in a Blue Dress.
Walter Murch
Walter Murch, American film editor and sound designer (born 1943, New York City), known for Apocalypse Now, The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and The English Patient, on which he became the only person to win Oscars for both film editing and sound for the same film.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle (born 1949) is an American artist and photographer, partner of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; he secured Rustin's 2013 posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and leads the Bayard Rustin Fund.
Walter Parazaider
Walter Parazaider (1945–2026), American woodwind multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the rock band Chicago; conceived its horn-section sound, played the 'Colour My World' flute solo, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee 2016.
Walter Pidgeon
Walter Pidgeon (Walter Davis Pidgeon, 1897-1984), Canadian-born Hollywood leading man, MGM star opposite Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver and Madame Curie, two-time Oscar nominee, and Screen Actors Guild president 1952-1957.
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) was an English poet and prose writer, best known for the Imaginary Conversations (1824–1829), dialogues between historical figures, and for classical poems, many written in Latin.
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish poet and novelist, popularized the historical novel with Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe (1820); anonymous 'Author of Waverley' until 1827, ruined by 1826 publishing collapse, model for Cooper and Hawthorne.
Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942), German-born English painter, pupil of Whistler and friend of Degas; founder of the Camden Town Group, painter of music halls, Camden nudes and Dieppe townscapes; subject of a discredited Jack the Ripper claim.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner (Walter Sergei Skinner), fictional FBI assistant director in The X-Files, played by Mitch Pileggi; superior and reluctant ally of Mulder and Scully, first appearing in "Tooms".
Walter Slezak
Walter Slezak, Austrian-born character actor and bass-baritone (May 3, 1902 Vienna – April 21, 1983 Flower Hill, NY). Father Leo Slezak; Broadway Fanny 1955 Tony; Hitchcock's Lifeboat 1944; daughter Erika Slezak.
Walter Spies
Walter Spies (1895–1942) was a Moscow-born German painter, musician, and curator who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1927, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association, and helped create the Kecak dance.
Walter Tevis
Walter Stone Tevis (1928–1984), American novelist and short story writer, author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mockingbird, and The Queen's Gambit; three novels became major films and the chess novel a Netflix Emmy-winning miniseries.
Walter Thompson-Hernández
Walter Thompson-Hernández, LA-based writer-director and former New York Times multimedia journalist; author of The Compton Cowboys (2020); creator of the Sundance 2022 jury-prize short and 2026 feature If I Go Will They Miss Me and the 2025 favela film Kites.
Walter Vetrivel (வால்டர் வெற்றிவேல்)
Walter Vetrivel (வால்டர் வெற்றிவேல்) is a 1993 Tamil action film directed by P. Vasu, starring Sathyaraj as an IPS officer. A Pongal-release blockbuster running over 200 days, remade as S. P. Parasuram, Khuddar, and Dalavayi.
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Walter White, also known as Heisenberg, is the fictional protagonist of Breaking Bad, played by Bryan Cranston: a chemistry teacher with lung cancer who becomes a meth kingpin over five seasons (2008–2013).