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95-Year-Old ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Actor Bill Walker Talks Fighting Racism in Hollywood in Unearthed Interview
Phylicia Rashad, Bill Walker, Mario & Melvin Van Peebles, Djimon Hounsou and James Avery interviewed for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Legacy Collection.
Beginning in the late 1940s, Variety covered Walker’s career, with early mentions in cast listings and for movies like “No Way Out” (with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis) and “The Harlem Globetrotters” (with Dorothy Dandridge). The second season, “Icons,” included conversations with classic Hollywood legends like Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin, Charlton Heston, Ernest Borgnine, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Dennis Hopper, Kathleen Freeman, Norman Lloyd, Tippi Hedren, Farrah Fawcett, Jane Russell and David Carradine. The third season, “Oscar Winners,” featured Fonda, Forest Whitaker, Rita Moreno, Shirley MacLaine, Marlee Matlin, Michael Caine, Kathy Bates, Cliff Robertson, Mary Steenburgen, Ben Kingsley, Ellen Burstyn and Christopher Walken.
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