Bud Walls

Bud Walls
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Portrays:	Celestra mutineer Older German soldier
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Nationality:	USA
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Bud Walls is an American stunt performer and actor who appeared in two productions within the Battlestar Galactica franchise. He portrayed an uncredited Celestra mutineer in the Original Series episode "Take the Celestra" and a German soldier in the Galactica 1980 episode "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III," with both appearances verified with the assistance of computer-aided facial recognition.

Career

Walls built a career in Hollywood as both a stunt performer and a character actor across film and television during the late 1960s through the 1980s. His earliest credited screen work includes the feature film Airport (1970), in which he appeared uncredited as Dr. Alan Bramson, and the television series The Virginian, on which he appeared in two episodes between 1969 and 1970. He appeared in a 1971 episode of Night Gallery as a Grave Digger, and in My Old Man's Place (1971) as a Marine.

On the stunt side, Walls contributed to the action sequences of several prominent productions of the early 1970s, including the Peter Bogdanovich comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972). In 1972 he also had acting roles in the western Cry for Me, Billy as a Soldier, and in The Honkers (uncredited).

In 1978, Walls appeared as the "Loud Guy" in an episode of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. In 1980, Walls performed stunt work on three major film productions released the same year: Peter Benchley's thriller The Island, Hal Needham's Smokey and the Bandit II, and John Landis's The Blues Brothers — the last of which assembled one of the largest stunt ensembles in Hollywood history for its record-breaking car chase sequences.

His final credited screen appearance is the TV movie Proud Men (1987), in which he played Warren.

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