Walker Edmiston

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Walker Edmiston
Born (1925-02-06)February 6, 1925
St. Louis, Missouri
United States
Died February 15, 2007(2007-02-15) (aged 82)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California,
United States
Resting place
 Cremated
Other names Walter Edmiston
Occupation Television, voice actor
Spouse(s) Evelyn Edmiston (1950–1998) (her death)

Walker Edmiston (February 6, 1925 – February 15, 2007) was an American character actor and voice-over artist.

Career

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Edmiston appeared on various television programs in character roles during the 1950s – 1970s, such as "Star Trek", Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, and The Dukes of Hazzard, all on CBS. He also played a character based on "Chester" in "Gun-Shy," the famous Maverick parody of Gunsmoke starring James Garner. In 1966, Edmiston had a recurring role as Regan in the short-lived ABC comedy western series, The Rounders with co-stars Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.

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 the Keebler Company, and voices for characters on H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos from the studios of Sid and Marty Krofft, as well as a recurring role as Enik the Altrusian on that studio's Land of the Lost. He also did many character voices on the Focus on the Family radio program, Adventures in Odyssey, in which he played the beloved Tom Riley and the infamous Bart Rathbone (and numerous other one-shot characters), for more than twenty years. At times the two characters would argue; however, Edmiston would require little redubbing or editing. He simply switched between the two characters without pause. Some of his voice credits were under the stage name Walter Edmiston.

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".

Death

Edmiston passed away from cancer in Woodland Hills, California on February 15, 2007, just nine days after his eighty-second birthday.

Filmography

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