- Born
- Birth nameDouglas Darien Walker
- Nickname
- That Guy With The Glasses
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Doug Walker was born in Naples, Italy; and because his father was in the Navy, lived in many different places across the United States when he was growing up. He went on to study film at Northern Illinois University, majoring in communications.
After college, he worked as an illustrator and started making YouTube videos for fun. He first grabbed viewers' attention with clever 5 second movie versions of popular films, and gained more notoriety with his snarky "Nostalgia Critic" reviews.
In 2008, "Nostalgia Critic" moved from YouTube to the independent site That Guy With the Glasses and Channel Awesome. By 2009, an increased income from advertising on the new site allowed Walker to quit his day job (a video that he made to commemorate the occasion also went viral) and develop his web persona full-time.- IMDb mini biography by: Leah Pickett
- SpouseRobin Poage(June 15, 2012 - present)
- Parents
- RelativesRob Walker(Sibling)
- His characters always begin and end their videos with a respective catchphrase.
- His characters usually carry a hand gun
- Usually plays high-strung characters quickly prone to anger
- Glasses and short goatee
- Frequent use of jump cuts and spit takes
- His favorite movie is Brazil (1985).
- Is good friends with James Rolfe who is better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd. In 2007 they developed a feud after the AVGN reviewed The Wizard (1989), which culminated in a battle to the "death". Both men have clarified that the feud was all in fun and that they actually are fans of each other's work.
- His twenty favorite films are, in order:
- Titus (1999)
- Hamlet (1996)
- Patton (1970)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Fantasia (1940)
- The Secret of NIMH (1982)
- Sideways (2004)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Fearless (1993)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Batman (1989)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Amadeus (1984)
- Brazil (1985).
- Despite all the poorly received movies he's reviewed, he says The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) is the worst movie he's ever seen.
- His favorite shows are:
- Fawlty Towers (1975)
- Seinfeld (1989)
- Louie (2010)
- The Twilight Zone (1959)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
- Peter Pan and the Pirates (1990)
- In Living Color (1990)
- 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
- Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
- Animaniacs (1993)
- The Simpsons (1989)
- South Park (1997)
- Black Books (2000)
- Roseanne (1988)
- Blackadder
- Cowboy Bebop (1998)
- Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
- Red Dwarf (1988)
- Home Movies (1999)
- Daria (1997).
- [on the 1965 Blake Edwards film "The Great Race (1965)"] It's sorta like the "Lawrence of Arabia" of comedies.
- [About Ghostbusters (1984)] The cool thing is that when I was a kid, I was only familiar with the cartoon, and then I was like, "Dude, there's a movie? Dude, they swear up a storm? Dude, they're smoking? This is bad ass!" And to me, they still are pretty bad ass. They're comedians with weapons. They're practically my personal heroes.
- When I think of good CG effects, I think of something that either looks realistic like Gollum or the Headless Horseman, or something stylized like Sin City or Across the Universe.
- If you like a movie that nobody else likes, enjoy it. If you hate a movie that everyone else loves, hate it. It's fine. If you can explain it and if you can have people understand why you don't like something, that's a very good way of being more open.
- Some are wondering my thoughts on feminism. In short, I think women can be tougher and men can be more understanding. I'm not against submissive women or dominant men, nature often chooses us for those roles, but we're an evolving animal, and by keeping us in roles I believe we learn less. But ultimately, I believe in people just being themselves, whatever "role" that is. I never want to force it on anyone.
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