Biography
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.
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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
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Public Ghost # 1 (1935)
The Affair of Susan (1935)
The Live Ghost (1934)
Them Thar Hills (1934)
Love Birds (1934)
Son of a Sailor (1933)
Dirty Work (1933)
Her First Mate (1933)
Horse Play (1933)
They Just Had to Get Married (1933)
Girl Grief (1932)
Free Wheeling (1932)
Alum and Eve (1932)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Scram! (1932)
Young Ironsides (1932)
Hook and Ladder (1932)
Show Business (1932)
What Price Taxi (1932)
County Hospital (1932)
Wild Babies! (1932)
The Pooch (1932)
The Old Bull (1932)
First in War (1932)
The Chimp (1932)
Too Many Women (1932)
Choo-Choo! (1932)
Strictly Unreliable (1932)
In Walked Charley (1932)
You're Telling Me (1932)
The Music Box (1932)
Spanky (1932)
Red Noses (1932)
The Nickel Nurser (1932)
Any Old Port! (1932)
The Knockout (1932)
Free Eats (1932)
Love Pains (1932)
Sealskins (1932)
Readin' and Writin' (1932)
The Tabasco Kid (1932)
Helpmates (1932)
On the Loose (1931)
Hasty Marriage (1931)
The Kick-Off! (1931)
Beau Hunks (1931)
Dogs Is Dogs (1931)
War Mamas (1931)
What a Bozo! (1931)
One Good Turn (1931)
Mama Loves Papa (1931)
Shiver My Timbers (1931)
The Pajama Party (1931)
Skip the Maloo! (1931)
Come Clean (1931)
Call a Cop! (1931)
Big Ears (1931)
Catch-As Catch-Can (1931)
Pardon Us (1931)
The Panic Is On (1931)
Let's Do Things (1931)
Fly My Kite (1931)
One of the Smiths (1931)
Haunted at Midnight (1931)
Our Wife (1931)
Air-Tight (1931)
Playing at Politics (1931)
Bargain Day (1931)
Rough Seas (1931)
The Skulls (1931)
Love Fever (1931)
Messing Around (1931)
Little Daddy (1931)
The soul of the party (1931)
High Gear (1931)
Chickens Come Home (1931)
Love Business (1931)
The Chiselers (1931)
Thundering Tenors (1931)
Be Big! (1931)
Blood and Thunder (1931)
Helping Grandma (1931)
High C's (1930)
Ladies Last (1930)
Another Fine Mess (1930)
A gray in the air (1930)
School's Out (1930)
Looser Than Loose (1930)
Laughing Gravy (1930)
Bigger and Better (1930)
Night of Goblins (1930)
Teacher's Pet (1930)
Hey, skirts! (1930)
The prince of the dollar (1930)
Gold diggers (1930)
Dollar Dizzy (1930)
Doctor's Orders (1930)
Pups Is Pups (1930)
Follies of love (1930)
Girl Shock (1930)
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
Fast Work (1930)
A Tough Winter (1930)
The King (1930)
Hog Wild (1930)
Fifty Million Husbands (1930)
Bear Shooters (1930)
The Shrimp (1930)
Shivering and Shaking (1930)
Below Zero (1930)
The Night Life (1930)
The golfer (1930)
The golf player (1930)
All Teed Up (1930)
When the Wind Blows (1930)
The Big Kick (1930)
Brats (1930)
Whispering Whoopee (1930)
The First Seven Years (1930)
Blotto (1930)
The Fighting Parson (1930)
Shivering Shakespeare (1930)
The Head Guy (1930)
Thieves (1930)
Night Owls (1930)
Great Gobs (1929)
Angora Love (1929)
Moan & Groan, Inc. (1929)
Skirt Shy (1929)
The Hoose-Gow (1929)
Saturday's Lesson (1929)
Stepping Out (1929)
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Bouncing Babies (1929)
Sky Boy (1929)
They Go Boom! (1929)
Cat, Dog & Co. (1929)
Boxing Gloves (1929)
Crazy Feet (1929)
Lazy Days (1929)
Hotter Than Hot (1929)
Perfect Day (1929)
Snappy Sneezer (1929)
Men O'War (1929)
Leaping Love (1929)
Railroadin' (1929)
Berth Marks (1929)
Little Mother (1929)
Double Whoopee (1929)
Small Talk (1929)
Unaccustomed as We Are (1929)
Big Business (1929)
Wiggle Your Ears (1929)
That's My Wife (1929)
The Holy Terror (1929)
Wrong Again (1929)
A Pair of Tights (1929)
Liberty (1929)
Election Day (1929)
Fast Freight (1929)
We Faw Down (1928)
The Spanking Age (1928)
Habeas Corpus (1928)
The Boy Friend (1928)
Two Tars (1928)
The Ol' Gray Hoss (1928)
Early to Bed (1928)
Growing Pains (1928)
School Begins (1928)
Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
Crazy House (1928)
Their Purple Moment (1928)
Fair and Muddy (1928)
You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Barnum & Ringling, Inc. (1928)
From Soup to Nuts (1928)
Aching Youth (1928)
Edison, Marconi & Co. (1928)
Came the Dawn (1928)
The Smile Wins (1928)
The Finishing Touch (1928)
Flying Elephants (1928)
Should Tall Men Marry? (1928)
Playin' Hookey (1928)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
Dog Heaven (1927)
Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
Do Detectives Think? (1927)
Heebee Jeebees (1927)
Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927)
Chicken Feed (1927)
Hats Off (1927)
The Way of All Pants (1927)
The Old Wallop (1927)
Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
The Second Hundred Years (1927)
Sailors, Beware! (1927)
Yale vs. Harvard (1927)
Olympic Games (1927)
Sugar Daddies (1927)
The Sting of Stings (1927)
With Love and Hisses (1927)
Us (1927)
Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
Baby Brother (1927)
The Glorious Fourth (1927)
Fluttering Hearts (1927)
Love 'Em and Weep (1927)
Tired Business Men (1927)
Love My Dog (1927)
Slipping Wives (1927)
Duck Soup (1927)
Ten Years Old (1927)
One Hour Married (1927)
Why Girls Say No (1927)
Seeing the World (1927)
Should Men Walk Home? (1927)
Bring Home the Turkey (1927)
Many Scrappy Returns (1927)
45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
Telling Whoppers (1926)
The Nickel-Hopper (1926)
War Feathers (1926)
Be Your Age (1926)
Get 'Em Young (1926)
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926)
Bromo and Juliet (1926)
Crazy Like a Fox (1926)
The Fourth Alarm (1926)
Shivering Spooks (1926)
Merry Widower (1926)
Along Came Auntie (1926)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
Thundering Fleas (1926)
Long Fliv the King (1926)
Mum's the Word (1926)
Dog Shy (1926)
Wife Tamers (1926)
Monkey Business (1926)
Dizzy Daddies (1926)
Wandering Papas (1926)
Buried Treasure (1926)
Charley My Boy! (1926)
Good Cheer (1926)
A Punch in the Nose (1926)
Starvation Blues (1925)
One Wild Ride (1925)
Should Sailors Marry? (1925)
Better Movies (1925)
The Caretaker's Daughter (1925)
Moonlight and Noses (1925)
Your Own Back Yard (1925)
Black Cyclone (1925)
Mary, Queen of Tots (1925)
Innocent Husbands (1925)
Boys Will Be Joys (1925)
Sherlock Sleuth (1925)
Official Officers (1925)
What Price Goofy? (1925)
Ask Grandma (1925)
Tell It to a Policeman (1925)
Wild Papa (1925)
Shootin' Injuns (1925)
Whose Baby Are You? (1925)
The Love Bug (1925)
Bad Boy (1925)
Dog Days (1925)
Circus Fever (1925)
The Big Town (1925)
Papa Be Good! (1925)
Just a Good Guy (1924)
The Mysterious Mystery! (1924)
Fast Company (1924)
Every Man for Himself (1924)
The Battling Orioles (1924)
The Sun Down Limited (1924)
High Society (1924)
A Truthful Liar (1924)
Short Kilts (1924)
It's a Bear (1924)
Wide Open Spaces (1924)
Stolen Goods (1924)
Jubilo, Jr. (1924)
Don't Park There (1924)
Changing Husbands (1924)
Rupert of Hee-Haw (1924)
Cradle Robbers (1924)
Near Dublin (1924)
Commencement Day (1924)
Brothers Under the Chin (1924)
Seein' Things (1924)
Big Moments from Little Pictures (1924)
The Buccaneers (1924)
Big Business (1924)
Smithy (1924)
Tire Trouble (1924)
Mother's Joy (1923)
Sunday Calm (1923)
Uncensored Movies (1923)
The Soilers (1923)
Derby Day (1923)
Hustlin' Hank (1923)
The Whole Truth (1923)
Frozen Hearts (1923)
Stage Fright (1923)
Jus' Passin' Through (1923)
Heavy Seas (1923)
No Noise (1923)
Why Worry? (1923)
July Days (1923)
Lodge Night (1923)
Jack Frost (1923)
The Uncovered Wagon (1923)
Dogs of War! (1923)
Back Stage (1923)
Sold at Auction (1923)
Giants vs. Yanks (1923)
California or Bust (1923)
Boys to Board (1923)
Safety Last! (1923)
A Pleasant Journey (1923)
The Big Show (1923)
The Cobbler (1923)
The Champeen (1923)
A Quiet Street (1922)
Saturday Morning (1922)
Dr. Jack (1922)
Young Sherlocks (1922)
Our Gang (1922)
The Old Sea Dog (1922)
Fire Fighters (1922)
One Terrible Day (1922)
Grandma's Boy (1922)
The Dumb-Bell (1922)
A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Never Weaken (1921)
Among Those Present (1921)
Now or Never (1921)
Number, Please? (1920)
Get Out and Get Under (1920)
High and Dizzy (1920)
An Eastern Westerner (1920)
Haunted Spooks (1920)
His Royal Slyness (1920)
From Hand to Mouth (1919)
Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
His Only Father (1919)
Pay Your Dues (1919)
Count the Votes (1919)
Soft Money (1919)
He Leads, Others Follow (1919)
Be My Wife (1919)
Don't Shove (1919)
Heap Big Chief (1919)
Chop Suey & Co. (1919)
Count Your Change (1919)
A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919)
Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
Next Aisle Over (1919)
Ask Father (1919)
Fireman Save My Child (1918)
Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
Here Come the Girls (1918)
Look Pleasant, Please (1918)
A Gasoline Wedding (1918)
Beat It (1918)
Hit Him Again (1918)
The Tip (1918)
Step Lively (1917)
Bashful (1917)
Move On (1917)
We Never Sleep (1917)
All Aboard (1917)
Clubs Are Trump (1917)
The Flirt (1917)
Love, Laughs and Lather (1917)
Rainbow Island (1917)
From Laramie to London (1917)
Bliss (1917)
Birds of a Feather (1917)
By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle (1917)
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GenderMale
Birthday1885-06-27
Deathday1937-06-23 (51 years old)
Birth PlaceLogan County, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As H.W. Walker, Harley M. Walker
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