Bill Walsh

About

Bill Walsh was born in New York to immigrant parents (father from Canada, mother from Ireland). In his teen years he lived with relatives in Cincinnati, OH, and later attended the University of Cincinnati. In 1933 he joined the stock touring company of husband / wife team Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay as a writer, but the couple divorced the next year and Walsh found himself stuck in Hollywood with no job and no prospects. He wound up working as an agent for a publicity agency, one of his clients being ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Walsh joined Walt Disney Studios in 1943, working for both the Publicity and Story departments. One of his jobs was to write jokes for the syndicated Mickey Mouse comic strip (he continued doing that on a voluntary basis for more than 20 years, long after he left those departments). Walsh brought his former client Edgar Bergen to Disney to narrate some...

Known for

Mary PoppinsMovie • 1964The Mickey Mouse ClubSeries • 1955FlubberMovie • 1997The Love BugMovie • 1968Bedknobs and BroomsticksMovie • 1971The Shaggy DogMovie • 2006That Darn Cat!Movie • 1965Herbie Rides AgainMovie • 1974Blackbeard's GhostMovie • 1968The Absent-Minded ProfessorMovie • 1961Davy Crockett and the River PiratesMovie • 1956The Love BugMovie • 1997The Shaggy DogMovie • 1959Son of FlubberMovie • 1963One of Our Dinosaurs Is MissingMovie • 1975Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.Movie • 1966The Misadventures of Merlin JonesMovie • 1964The World's Greatest AthleteMovie • 1973Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a CircusMovie • 1960Bon Voyage!Movie • 1962