Walker Edmiston

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Walker Edmiston (February 6, 1926 - February 15, 2007) was an American actor and voice-over artist who was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Edmiston appeared on various television programs in character roles during the 1950s – 1970s, such as Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, and The Dukes of Hazzard).

Edmiston also did many television commercials and cartoon character voices, such as Ernie the Keebler Elf in hundreds of commercials for the cookie products of Kellogg Company, and voices for characters on H. R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos from the studios of Sid and Marty Krofft. He also did many character voices on the Focus on the Family radio program, Adventures in Odyssey, for more than twenty years. Some of his voice credits were under the stage name Walter Edmiston and Walker Ed.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he hosted "The Walker Edmiston Show", a children's television program in Los Angeles, California. The program featured puppets of his own creation including Kingsley the Lion and Ravenswood the Buzzard.

Walker Edmiston died in Los Angeles on February 15, 2007. His wife was Evelyn Edmiston (1950 – 1998).