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H.M. Walker

AKA: H.W. Walker
Birthday: 1878-06-27
Died: 1937-06-23
Birthplace: West Middlebury, Ohio, USA


WALKER, H.M. (Harley Marquis Walker) started as a telegrapher, tapping out the descriptions of sportswriters at boxing matches and sending them to the offices of their newspapers. In 1903 he became a sportswriter himself and wrote a column, “The Wisdom of Blinkey Ben,” for the Los Angeles Examiner before joining Roach in 1917 as a part-time scenario and title writer for Harold Lloyd. In 1920, he left newspaper work and joined Roach full time as head of the editorial department. A brilliant title writer in the silent era, Walker was less skilled at dialogue; he was credited for providing these elements on more than 350 Roach comedies. He usually came up with the title for each film and also wrote fairly severe critiques after each preview. After leaving Roach in 1932 he wrote dialogue for some features, including Son of a Sailor (1933) with Joe E. Brown, W.C. Fields’ The Old Fashioned Way (1934), and the ZaSu Pitts picture Affair of Susan (1935). Walker died in the home of his good friend Leroy Shield, who had written scores at the Roach lot in 1930 and ’31. Died June 23, 1937, Chicago, Illinois, age 58; of a heart attack. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harley M. "Beanie" Walker (June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932. The title cards he wrote for Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedies "have entered legend, both for silent films, and as opening remarks for the earlier talkies." He was also an officer of the Roach Studio corporation. On Roach's "Lot of Fun", script development usually started with meetings among the gag men, who would develop what was known as an "action script": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which generally would run three to six legal-size pages. This document would then pass to Walker, the head of the editorial department, which oversaw not only script editing, but film editing as well. Walker usually came up with the title of each film, wrote "brilliantly witty" title cards which would be produced and inserted into the film, and wrote a critique before the picture went out to the distributors, Pathé Exchange, or later, M-G-M. Walker's writing did not transition well to talkies and by 1931 he had left Roach studio and wrote dialogue for comedies produced by ex-Roach general manager Warren Doane at Universal Pictures. Later, he worked at Paramount Pictures, where he contributed to the W. C. Fields picture The Old Fashioned Way (1934).

Filmography

The Nickel-Hopper
Job: Writer
Grandma's Boy
Job: Writer
Dr. Jack
Job: Title Designer

From Hand to Mouth
Job: Title Graphics
Number, Please?
Job: Writer

Any Old Port!
Job: Writer
Big Business
Job: Writer

The Chimp
Job: Writer
Be Big!
Job: Writer
On the Loose
Job: Writer

Liberty
Job: Writer
Beau Hunks
Job: Writer
Double Whoopee
Job: Writer

Fluttering Hearts
Job: Writer
The Finishing Touch
Job: Writer

Men O' War
Job: Writer
Night Owls
Job: Writer
Sugar Daddies
Job: Writer

Our Wife
Job: Dialogue
Their Purple Moment
Job: Writer
From Soup to Nuts
Job: Writer

Now or Never
Job: Writer
Ask Father
Job: Writer

His Royal Slyness
Job: Writer
Haunted Spooks
Job: Writer

All Aboard
Job: Writer
We Never Sleep
Job: Writer
Clubs Are Trump
Job: Writer

Birds of a Feather
Job: Writer

The Flirt
Job: Writer
Rainbow Island
Job: Writer
Bliss
Job: Writer

Heavy Seas
Job: Writer
Boxing Gloves
Job: Dialogue

Small Talk
Job: Dialogue
Get 'Em Young
Job: Writer
Playing at Politics
Job: Writer

Should Tall Men Marry?
Job: Title Graphics
Dogs of War!
Job: Title Graphics
What Price Taxi
Job: Writer

What Price Taxi
Job: Dialogue
Came the Dawn
Job: Writer
Dollar Dizzy
Job: Dialogue

The Nickel Nurser
Job: Writer
Red Noses
Job: Dialogue
Just a Good Guy
Job: Writer

Count Your Change
Job: Title Graphics
In Walked Charley
Job: Writer
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
Job: Title Graphics

The Fighting Parson
Job: Writer
The Shrimp
Job: Writer
The King
Job: Writer

The Head Guy
Job: Writer
Skirt Shy
Job: Story
The Big Kick
Job: Writer

War Mamas
Job: Dialogue
The Old Bull
Job: Dialogue
The Pajama Party
Job: Dialogue

Alum and Eve
Job: Dialogue
Let's Do Things
Job: Dialogue
Don't Shove
Job: Title Graphics

Below Zero
Job: Dialogue
Hog Wild
Job: Dialogue
The Night Life
Job: Writer

The Chiselers
Job: Writer
Catch-As Catch-Can
Job: Dialogue

Dollar Dizzy
Job: Story
Captain Kidd's Kids
Job: Title Graphics
Hog Wild
Job: Writer

The Music Box
Job: Writer
County Hospital
Job: Writer
Scram!
Job: Writer

All Teed Up
Job: Dialogue
Fast Work
Job: Dialogue

A gray in the air
Job: Writer
Girl Shock
Job: Writer
High C's
Job: Dialogue

Follies of love
Job: Writer
Gold Diggers
Job: Story

The golf player
Job: Writer
Messing Around
Job: Writer
Rough Seas
Job: Dialogue

Thundering Tenors
Job: Dialogue
The soul of the party
Job: Dialogue
The golfer
Job: Writer

One of the Smiths
Job: Dialogue
Skip the Maloo!
Job: Dialogue
What a Bozo!
Job: Dialogue

Hasty Marriage
Job: Dialogue
Girl Grief
Job: Dialogue
First in War
Job: Dialogue

Young Ironsides
Job: Dialogue
Public Ghost # 1
Job: Writer
Playin' Hookey
Job: Writer

The Music Box
Job: Dialogue
A Gasoline Wedding
Job: Writer
Step Lively
Job: Writer

Scram!
Job: Dialogue
Unaccustomed as We Are
Job: Dialogue

The Soilers
Job: Title Graphics
Thundering Fleas
Job: Title Designer
Bromo and Juliet
Job: Title Designer

Along Came Auntie
Job: Title Designer
Crazy Like a Fox
Job: Title Designer
Should Sailors Marry?
Job: Title Designer

The Battle of the Century
Job: Title Designer
Wandering Papas
Job: Title Designer
Them Thar Hills
Job: Writer

Berth Marks
Job: Title Designer
One Good Turn
Job: Dialogue
Come Clean
Job: Dialogue

Helpmates
Job: Dialogue
Wrong Again
Job: Writer

Early to Bed
Job: Writer
Blotto
Job: Dialogue
Brats
Job: Dialogue

Chickens Come Home
Job: Dialogue
Papa Be Good!
Job: Writer
Beat It
Job: Dialogue

Heap Big Chief
Job: Dialogue
Here Come the Girls
Job: Dialogue
The Tip
Job: Dialogue

Uncensored Movies
Job: Writer
Angora Love
Job: Other
Dog Days
Job: Title Graphics

Hotter Than Hot
Job: Writer
The Second 100 Years
Job: Title Graphics
Hats Off
Job: Title Designer

The Tabasco Kid
Job: Writer
Her First Mate
Job: Screenplay
Helping Grandma
Job: Writer

Love Business
Job: Writer
Shiver My Timbers
Job: Writer
Little Daddy
Job: Writer

The Pooch
Job: Writer
Choo-Choo!
Job: Writer
Spanky
Job: Writer

Moan & Groan, Inc.
Job: Story Editor
Bouncing Babies
Job: Story Editor
Shivering Shakespeare
Job: Story Editor

The First Seven Years
Job: Story Editor
When the Wind Blows
Job: Story Editor
Strictly Unreliable
Job: Writer

Teacher's Pet
Job: Dialogue
Show Business
Job: Dialogue
Wide Open Spaces
Job: Writer

Love Birds
Job: Additional Dialogue
Mother's Joy
Job: Writer
Crazy Feet
Job: Scenario Writer

Whispering Whoopee
Job: Dialogue
The Sting of Stings
Job: Writer
Night of Goblins
Job: Dialogue

Pardon Us
Job: Dialogue
Haunted at Midnight
Job: Writer
Call a Cop!
Job: Dialogue

Bear Shooters
Job: Story Editor
Black Cyclone
Job: Writer
Sailors, Beware!
Job: Writer

Another Fine Mess
Job: Dialogue
County Hospital
Job: Dialogue

Good Cheer
Job: Writer
Sky Boy
Job: Writer

School's Out
Job: Dialogue
You're Telling Me
Job: Dialogue

The Whole Truth
Job: Writer
Chop Suey & Co.
Job: Writer

You're Darn Tootin'
Job: Writer
High and Dizzy
Job: Writer
Never Weaken
Job: Writer

Free Eats
Job: Writer
Doctor's Orders
Job: Writer
A Truthful Liar
Job: Writer

Fair and Muddy
Job: Title Designer
Ten Years Old
Job: Title Designer
Fighting Fathers
Job: Writer

Long Fliv the King
Job: Writer

Temps d'Hiver
Job: Writer