Walter Leonard Sparrow (22 January 1927 â€" 31 May 2000) was an
English film and television actor best known for his appearance as
Duncan in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starring Kevin
Costner.Born in Eltham, London in 1927, Sparrow began his career as a
stand-up comic before moving to acting with a period with the Royal
Shakespeare Company. His first film role was in 1964, in Dr. Terror's
House of Horrors, with Christopher Lee. Subsequent films, interspersed
between countless TV appearances, included the 1969 sex fantasy Zeta
One, Young Sherlock Holmes, and the acclaimed 1988 film The Accidental
Tourist starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.His
career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, with Sparrow playing key
roles in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as the blinded
retainer Duncan, 1993's The Secret Garden as gruff gardener Ben
Weatherstaff, and the 1995 American coming-of-age film Now and Then as
tragic drifter 'Crazy Pete'. In 1998 he starred in Tony Harrison's
film Prometheus.Sparrow's even more prolific TV appearances included
regular roles in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm, as two different
characters, and the comedy Paris, and guest spots on Hugh and I, Adam
Adamant Lives!, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Z-Cars, The Onedin
Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Alas Smith and Jones, Rumpole of
the Bailey, One Foot in the Grave, Ernie in Birds of a Feather, and
The Bill among many others. Walter Sparrow Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter