Date of Death: October 09, 1996 (83)
Birth Place: Evanston, IL, USA
Kerr was born in Evanston, Illinois, and earned both a B.A. and M.A. from Northwestern University., after graduation from St. George H.S. also in Evanston.
He was a regular film critic for the St. George High School newspaper while a student there, and was also a critic for the Evanston News Index. He was the editor of the high school newspaper and yearbook. He taught speech and drama at The Catholic University of America.
After writing criticism for Commonweal he became a theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1951. When that paper folded, he then began writing theater reviews for The New York Times in 1966, writing for the next seventeen years. During this time, Kerr lived in New Rochelle, NY in the same house Norman Rockwell lived in.
He married fellow writer Jean Kerr (née Collins) on August 9, 1943. Together, they wrote the musical Goldilocks (1958), which won two Tony Awards. They also collaborated on Touch and Go (1949) and King of Hearts (1954). They had six children.
Kerr died from congestive heart failure on October 9, 1996.
He was portrayed pseudonymously by David Niven in the 1960 film Please Don't Eat the Daisies, based on Jean Kerr's best-selling collection of humorous essays.
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Check out photos from Hadestown's 5 year anniversary celebration! Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets!
During the Hadestown 5-Year Celebration at The Racket NYC, the show's former stars Solea Pfeiffer & Patrick Page performed a Fiddler on the Roof parody!
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Walter Kerr has written 6 shows including Count Me In (Bookwriter), Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Conceiver), The Song of Bernadette (Playwright), Touch and Go (Sketches/Lyricist), Goldilocks (Bookwriter), Stairway to Paradise (Sketches/Composer/Lyricist).
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