- Although closely associated with Harold Lloyd through Why Worry? (1923), expert gag man and writer H.M. "Beany" Walker was a Hal Roach loyalist and remained with his studio after the superstar comedian left for his deal with Paramount in the mid-1920s. A heavy smoker, he died of a heart attack in 1937, just shy of his 59th birthday..
- He wrote the intertitles for silent films and then the spoken dialog for the "talkies.".
- Was a longtime friend of cartoonist George Herriman. In the early 1920s Herriman drew his classic "Krazy Kat" comic strip in Walker's office at the Hal Roach studio.
- Never learned to drive. His wife Virginia drove him to and from the Roach studio everyday.
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