H.M. Walker

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1878-06-27 (59 years old)

Deathday

1937-06-23

Place of Birth

West Middlebury, Ohio, USA

H.M. Walker

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 usual...

Production

1926

1922

Grandma's Boy

as Writer

1922

Dr. Jack

as Title Designer

1919

From Hand to Mouth

as Title Graphics

1920

1932

Any Old Port!

as Writer

1929

Big Business

as Writer

1932

The Chimp

as Writer

1931

Be Big!

as Writer

1931

On the Loose

as Writer

1929

Liberty

as Writer

1931

Beau Hunks

as Writer

1929

1927

1928

1929

Men O' War

as Writer

1930

Night Owls

as Writer

1927

Sugar Daddies

as Writer

1931

Our Wife

as Dialogue

1928

1928

1921

Now or Never

as Writer

1919

Ask Father

as Writer

1920

1920

1917

All Aboard

as Writer

1917

1917

1917

1917

The Flirt

as Writer

1917

1917

Bliss

as Writer

1923

Heavy Seas

as Writer

1929

Boxing Gloves

as Dialogue

1929

Small Talk

as Dialogue

1926

Get 'Em Young

as Writer

1931

1928

Should Tall Men Marry?

as Title Graphics

1923

Dogs of War!

as Title Graphics

1932

1932

What Price Taxi

as Dialogue

1928

Came the Dawn

as Writer

1930

Dollar Dizzy

as Dialogue

1932

1932

Red Noses

as Dialogue

1924

1919

Count Your Change

as Title Graphics

1932

1926

1930

1930

The Shrimp

as Writer

1930

The King

as Writer

1930

The Head Guy

as Writer

1929

Skirt Shy

as Story

1930

The Big Kick

as Writer

1931

War Mamas

as Dialogue

1932

The Old Bull

as Dialogue

1931

The Pajama Party

as Dialogue

1932

Alum and Eve

as Dialogue

1931

Let's Do Things

as Dialogue

1919

Don't Shove

as Title Graphics

1930

Below Zero

as Dialogue

1930

Hog Wild

as Dialogue

1930

1931

The Chiselers

as Writer

1931

1930

Dollar Dizzy

as Story

1919

Captain Kidd's Kids

as Title Graphics

1930

Hog Wild

as Writer

1932

The Music Box

as Writer

1932

1932

Scram!

as Writer

1930

All Teed Up

as Dialogue

1930

Fast Work

as Dialogue

1930

1930

Girl Shock

as Writer

1930

High C's

as Dialogue

1930

1930

Gold Diggers

as Story

1930

1931

1931

Rough Seas

as Dialogue

1931

1931

1930

The golfer

as Writer

1931

1931

Skip the Maloo!

as Dialogue

1931

What a Bozo!

as Dialogue

1931

Hasty Marriage

as Dialogue

1932

Girl Grief

as Dialogue

1932

First in War

as Dialogue

1932

Young Ironsides

as Dialogue

1935

1928

1932

The Music Box

as Dialogue

1918

1917

Step Lively

as Writer

1932

Scram!

as Dialogue

1929

1923

The Soilers

as Title Graphics

1926

Thundering Fleas

as Title Designer

1926

Bromo and Juliet

as Title Designer

1926

Along Came Auntie

as Title Designer

1926

Crazy Like a Fox

as Title Designer

1925

Should Sailors Marry?

as Title Designer

1927

The Battle of the Century

as Title Designer

1926

Wandering Papas

as Title Designer

1934

1929

Berth Marks

as Title Designer

1931

One Good Turn

as Dialogue

1931

Come Clean

as Dialogue

1932

Helpmates

as Dialogue

1929

Wrong Again

as Writer

1928

Early to Bed

as Writer

1930

Blotto

as Dialogue

1930

Brats

as Dialogue

1931

1925

Papa Be Good!

as Writer

1918

Beat It

as Dialogue

1919

Heap Big Chief

as Dialogue

1918

1918

The Tip

as Dialogue

1923

1929

Angora Love

as Other

1925

Dog Days

as Title Graphics

1929

1927

The Second 100 Years

as Title Graphics

1927

Hats Off

as Title Designer

1932

1933

Her First Mate

as Screenplay

1931

1931

Love Business

as Writer

1931

1931

Little Daddy

as Writer

1932

The Pooch

as Writer

1932

Choo-Choo!

as Writer

1932

Spanky

as Writer

1929

Moan & Groan, Inc.

as Story Editor

1929

Bouncing Babies

as Story Editor

1930

Shivering Shakespeare

as Story Editor

1930

The First Seven Years

as Story Editor

1930

When the Wind Blows

as Story Editor

1932

1930

Teacher's Pet

as Dialogue

1932

Show Business

as Dialogue

1924

1934

Love Birds

as Additional Dialogue

1923

Mother's Joy

as Writer

1929

Crazy Feet

as Scenario Writer

1930

1927

1930

Night of Goblins

as Dialogue

1931

Pardon Us

as Dialogue

1931

1931

Call a Cop!

as Dialogue

1930

Bear Shooters

as Story Editor

1925

Black Cyclone

as Writer

1927

1930

1932

County Hospital

as Dialogue

1926

Good Cheer

as Writer

1929

Sky Boy

as Writer

1930

School's Out

as Dialogue

1932

1923

1919

1928

1920

1921

Never Weaken

as Writer

1932

Free Eats

as Writer

1930

1924

1928

Fair and Muddy

as Title Designer

1927

Ten Years Old

as Title Designer

1927

1926

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