Biography
Bill Walsh was born in New York to immigrant parents (father from Canada, mother from Ireland). In his teen years he lived with relatives in Cincinnati, OH, and later attended the University of Cincinnati. In 1933 he joined the stock touring company of husband / wife team Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay as a writer, but the couple divorced the next year and Walsh found himself stuck in Hollywood with no job and no prospects. He wound up working as an agent for a publicity agency, one of his clien...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Shaggy Dog
2006
Original Film Writer
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

The Shaggy Dog Kids
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film.

The Love Bug
1997
Writer
The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank takes him over and gives him a new lease of life....

Flubber
1997
Screenplay
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and...

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
Writer, Producer
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese...

Herbie Rides Again
1974
Producer, Screenplay
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

The World's Greatest Athlete
1973
Producer
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An Afri...

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
Screenplay, Producer
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when th...

Scandalous John
1971
Screenplay, Producer
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

The Love Bug
1968
Screenplay, Producer
Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky riv...

Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
Producer, Screenplay
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their gr...

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
1966
Co-Producer
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and be...

That Darn Cat!
1965
Screenplay, Co-Producer
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than s...

Mary Poppins
1964
Screenplay, Co-Producer
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
1964
Screenstory
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments lan...

Son of Flubber
1963
Writer, Co-Producer
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hope...

Bon Voyage!
1962
Writer, Associate Producer
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest p...

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
Screenplay, Associate Producer
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
Screenplay
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee...

Disneyland '59
1959
Associate Producer
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disn...

The Shaggy Dog
1959
Associate Producer, Screenplay
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...

The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
1957
Writer
"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansb...

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957
Producer
A 15 episode serial in which boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy try to solve the mystery of a haunted farm where the farmer has died and left no one t...

Along the Mohawk Trail
1957
as Kane
Two episodes of the 1957 TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" edited together and released as a feature.

Westward Ho, The Wagons!
1956
Producer
The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite ...

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956
Producer
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie...

The Littlest Outlaw
1955
Writer
Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the gra...

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race
1955
Producer
Davy and Georgie end a particularly successful season of trapping and hunting with the hopes of easy sales, only for such hopes to be dashed by the se...

Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
1955
Producer
The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their c...

Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
1954
Producer
Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.

The Disneyland Story
1954
Writer, Producer
Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily ...

The Riddle of Robin Hood
1952
Producer
Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; released in 1952.

The Walt Disney Christmas Show
1951
Producer
The Walt Disney Christmas Show is a Christmas television special, originally broadcast on Christmas Day of 1951. The then-upcoming Disney film Peter P...

One Hour in Wonderland
1950
Producer, Writer
Airing on Christmas Day, 1950, this holiday special was the first Disney TV production. It features Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Sn...