Matthew D. Walker (born October 12, 1968) is an American film and television actor and television director.
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Life and career
Walker was born in Santa Monica, California. He has been acting professionally since the age of 17, when he appeared in a Disney Movie of the Week in 1986. Since then he has made his living appearing in numerous television shows, feature films, commercials, and live venues across the country. At age 19 he was cast as a series regular on the ABC drama Supercarrier, starring Wendie Malick, Paul Gleason and Richard Jaeckel. Co-starring roles soon followed in the feature films Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and Child's Play 3, which established Walker in the famed slasher movie sequel genre.
In Hollywood as a young actor, Walker worked with such notable actors as Kate Hudson, Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Lea Thompson, Andy Dick, Tony Danza, Martin Mull, Haysha Deitsch, Donald Pleasence, Willford Brimley, John Ritter, and George C. Scott, and such directors as Tobe Hooper, James Burrows, and Garry Marshall. In 1995, Walker was cast as a series regular in the Fox sitcom The Preston Episodes with David Alan Grier, and as the star of a CBS pilot called Shock Treatment. The publicity from these two shows landed Walker with the William Morris Talent Agency, but acting roles began to dry up. That same year, Walker accepted a job as the director of a TBS cable television show, Dinner and a Movie. That job turned into more directing for TBS including the shows Movies For Guys Who Like Movies, The Man Made Movie, Movie & A Makeover and Big PlayStation Saturday. Six years and over 200 episodes later, Walker had worked with more of Hollywood's top shelf talent, including Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, Jon Cryer, Beverly D'Angelo, John C. McGinley, John Travolta, Bridget Fonda, Danny DeVito, Morgan Freeman, Ray Liotta and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
