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Walker Edmiston
Voice of Tom
Riley & Bart Rathbone
Walker Edmiston was a very talented
actor and voiceover artist. He played many roles on
Adventures in Odyssey (most notably Tom Riley and
Bart Rathbone), starting with the very first episode of
the show in 1987. At times the two characters would
argue, however Edmiston would require little redubbing
or editing. He simply switched between the two
characters without pause. Edmiston appeared on various
television programs in character roles during the
1950s–1970s, such as Gunsmoke, Mission:
Impossible, Knots Landing, and The Dukes
of Hazzard. Edmiston also did many television
commercials and cartoon character voices, such as Ernie
the Keebler Elf in hundreds of commercials for the
cookie products of Kellogg Company, and voices for
characters on H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos
from the studios of Sid and Marty Krofft, as well as a
recurring role as Enik the Altrusian on that studio's
Land of the Lost. Some of his voice credits were
under the stage name Walter Edmiston and Walker Ed. In
the 1950s and 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 and Ravenswood
the Buzzard.
Walker Edmiston died of cancer in Los Angeles on
February 15, 2007, just 9 days after his 81st birthday.
Due to several unused recordings, he was heard one last
time on Adventures in Odyssey in the spring of
2008.
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