Rev. Walter J. Plimmer Jr. (1900-1968) was elected to The Lambs in 1945 as a Professional member.
Plimmer was a son of vaudevillians Walter Plimmer Sr. and Rose McDade Plimmer (Rose Linden). Walter Plimmer was born on November 22, 1900. He was an actor, known for Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924) and worked on Broadway for eight years. He worked with such stars as George M. Cohan, Leslie Howard, Fred Waring, and Gertrude Vanderbilt.
After his acting career he became a Roman Catholic priest in 1934. The first Mass he said was at St. Malachy’s, the Actors Chapel, in Manhattan. Plimmer is in the 1943 Official Catholic Directory as a U.S. Army chaplain and with the suffix s.s., indicating he was a priest of the Society of St. Sulpice. In 1944 Plimmer was assigned to a Diocese of Trenton parish. Assigned 1946-1947 to St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. By 1948 he is shown as a priest of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, apparently having left his order. Plimmer was suspended from ministry work in 1956, worked on Long Island until he was suspended. Plimmer then did missionary work until his death.
Rev. Walter Plimmer died on September 15, 1968 in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 67 years old. He is buried next to his parents and sister in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Posthumously, his name appears in church records as an abuser.