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Lou Walters cause of death: What happened to Barbara Walters father?

a New York-based booking agent with British ancestry who is also a producer of plays and the club’s namesake, the Latin Quarter.

He was Barbara Walters’ father, a journalist.

Louis Abraham Warmwater, the son of Abraham Isaac Warmwater (née Waremwasser) and Lillian Schwartz, was born Lou Walters in London in 1898. He was the eldest son and one of seven kids.

He had a glass eye ever since he lost one of his eyes as a child. In 1906, during a strike in the apparel industry, tailor Abraham Warmwater relocated his family to Belfast.

Isaac relocated to New York three years later with his kids, and his wife and children followed seven months later. The family adopted the surname Walters there.

Lou Walters cause of death: What happened to Barbara Walters’ father?

Walters ceased working in 1967. In 1977, a heart attack claimed his life. The Boston Center for the Arts gave Walters a rehearsal hall in 1978.

A roadway close to the former Latin Quarter nightclub was renamed “Lou Walters Way” in New York City in 2006.

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Sebrina Pilcher

Update: 2024-05-05