Walter Anthony

For the English footballer, see Walter Anthony (footballer).

Walter Anthony (February 13, 1872 in Stockton, California – May 1, 1945 in Hollywood, California) was a screenplay, titles, and documentary film writer. Before Walter started writing in films he was a dramatic and musical critic for The San Francisco Call^{[citation needed]}, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.^[1] At the time he came to work for the Post-Intelligencer in 1919, Seattle magazine The Town Crier described him as, "one of the few really authoritative critics of music and the drama in America."^[1] Writing in 1942 in a guest column for Walter Winchell, Lionel Barrymore singled out Anthony among the "great stage critics."^[2]

Walter Anthony, circa 1919

Selected filmography

• Foolish Wives (1922)
• Oliver Twist (1922)
• The Drivin' Fool (1923)
• A Boy of Flanders (1924)
• The Lightning Rider (1924)
• When a Man's a Man (1924)
• After Business Hours (1925)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• The Cat and the Canary (1927)
• The Last Performance (1927)
• Jazz Mad (1928)
• The Michigan Kid (1928)
• The Man Who Laughs (1928)
• Girl Overboard (1929)
• Love and the Devil (1929)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Courage (1930)
• General Crack (1930)
• Golden Dawn (1930)
• Paroled from the Big House (1938)