Walker Edmiston

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Walker Edmiston
Born	(1926-02-06)February 6, 1926 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	February 15, 2007(2007-02-15) (aged 81) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Walter Edmiston
Occupations	Actor puppeteer
Years active	1947–2006
Spouse	Evelyn Edmiston ​ ​ (m. 1950; died 1998)​
Children	2

Walker Edmiston (February 6, 1926^{[citation needed]} – February 15, 2007) was an American actor and puppeteer.^[1]

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Edmiston participated in local theater productions during his high school years.^[2] He later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[3]

In the 1950s, Edmiston worked on puppet shows on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.^[4] His voice was heard on the puppet programs The Buffalo Billy Show^[5] and Time for Beany^[5]: 1085 and on Dumbo's Circus, which included live action and animation.^[5]: 292 He was also a member of the cast of Lidsville^[5]: 599 and voiced characters on Pandamonium.^{[5]: 807-808} He appeared in character roles on several TV programs during the 1950s through the '70s, including the Star Trek episode The Corbomite Maneuver as the voice of Balok. He also appeared in Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, Adam-12, The Bob Newhart Show and The Dukes of Hazzard.^[2] He also played a character based on "Chester" in "Gun-Shy," the Maverick parody of Gunsmoke starring James Garner.^[6] In 1966, Edmiston had a recurring role as Regan in the short-lived ABC comedy western series The Rounders with co-stars Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.

Edmiston also did many television commercials and cartoon character voices, such as Ernie the elf in hundreds of commercials for the cookie products of the Keebler Company, and voices for characters on H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos from the studios of Sid and Marty Krofft,^[1] as well as a recurring role as Enik the Altrusian in Land of the Lost.^{[5]: 579-580} He also did many character voices on the Focus on the Family radio program, Adventures in Odyssey, in which he played Tom Riley, Bart Rathbone, and numerous other one-shot characters for more than twenty years. Following Edmiston's death, both characters were retired from the show.

Some of his voice credits were under the stage name Walter Edmiston. In 1985, he also voiced the Autobot Inferno in The Transformers.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, he hosted The Walker Edmiston Show, a children's television program in Los Angeles, California. The program featured puppets of his own creation including Kingsley the Lion, Ravenswood the Buzzard,^[2] and Webster Webfoot.

In 1962, Edmiston and his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he began a daily puppet show on KOOL-TV.^[3] He was also a stage director at Children's Theater in Phoenix.^[7]

Edmiston married Evelyn in 1950, and together they had two children, daughters Andria and Erin.^[2] Evelyn died in 1998.^[2]

Edmiston died from cancer in Woodland Hills, California on February 15, 2007.^[1]

• Walker Edmiston at IMDb 
• Walker Edmiston at Memory Alpha
• CONELRAD Appreciation (archived)
• Walker Edmiston at Mark Evanier's News From Me (14 articles, from 1996 through to 2007 obituary)
• Walker Edmiston at the Adventures in Odyssey Wiki