Sydney Walker

Sydney Walker was an American character actor of stage and screen and voice artist with a career that spanned over five decades He is most known for Prelude to a Kiss elderly man Meg Ryans character switches bodies with and as the bus driver on Mrs Doubtfire Walker made his Broadway debut as the Archbishop of Canterbury in the famous 1960 production of Jean Anouilhs Beckett which starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn He subsequently appeared in 22 Broadway productions from 1960 to 1973 Walker made his movie debut in the Kirk Douglas movie A Lovely Way to Die 1968 and played the doctor in Love Story 1970 He made five appearances on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974 His last film was Getting Even with Dad 1994 but his most famous movie role came two years earlier in the film adaptation of Prelude to a Kiss 1992 in which he reprized the role of the Old Man he had assayed in the 1988 Berkeley Repertory production of the Craig Lucas play