Was Julie Andrews Still Married To Tony Walton?

Tony Walton and Dame Julie Andrews got married in 1959 but got divorced in 1968, although the two remained friends after their divorce.

Andrews was his childhood sweetheart and star of the film Mary Poppins (1964).

Walton collected Oscar noms for his costume work on Mary Poppins (1964) , and Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and for his costume and design contributions to the Diana Ross-starring The Wiz (1978).

Walton also received an Emmy for his art direction on the 1985 telefilm Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman.

He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991 and received a lifetime achievement award from the Art Directors Guild in 2012.

Walton, who also worked on Broadway in Golden Boy, Chicago, A Day in Hollywood /A Night in the Ukraine, Woman of the Year, Sophisticated Ladies, Anything Goes, I’m Not Rappaport, Grand Hotel, The Will Rogers Follies and Uncle Vanya, among others, received 16 Tony noms during his spectacular career.

Born on Oct. 24, 1934, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Walton was the son of a surgeon. He trained at the Slade School of Art in London in the mid-’50s and served as a Royal Air Force pilot in Canada.

His first design project was an off-Broadway revival of Noël Coward’s Conversation Piece in 1957.

Walton died of complications from a stroke, in 2022, in his New York in his Upper West Side apartment. He was 87.