Walter Woolf King
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 Walter Woolf King as Rodolfo Lassparri in A Night at the Opera. |
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| Born | Walter Woolf King November 2, 1899 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 1984 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California U.S. |
Walter Woolf King (2 November 1899 – 24 October 1984) was an American singer, performer, and film actor
Born in San Francisco, California, King started singing for a living at a young age and sang mostly in churches. He made his Broadway theatre debut in 1919, and developed a reputation as a baritone in musical comedies and other musical performances. King advertised himself as Walter Woolf and Walter King in his early career, eventually settling on a combination of all three names, Walter Woolf King, in the mid 1930s.
Wolf discovered talking films and began as a lead in musicals but moved into less known villain roles in the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy films, and low-budget films such as Today I Hang in 1942. He later became an actor's agent, occasionally appearing on television.
He died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California.
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