[2] Between 1892 and 1895 he was with Edmund Duggan's "Her Majesty's Dramatic Company", touring La Tosca,[3] F. R. C. Hopkins' All for Gold,[4] Greta.
[11] He joined Andrew Mack's company for the musical comedy Tom Moore, which played in San Francisco in 1905,[12] though he was not in the cast when it toured Australia earlier in the year.
[16] In 1921 he acted as assistant producer for Beaumont Smith's films While the Billy Boils' and The Gentleman Bushranger.
[18] In 1923 he returned to Australia as manager of the Abbey Theatre company and an Irish variety troupe,[19] this time permanently.
He produced the highly successful silent film Around the Boree Log (1925)[20] and tried to raise money from the citizens of Gunning for Love Blind from a novel by Flora Ann Timms (née McLean, died 1945),[21] a resident of the town.
Walsh was for a time married to his stage partner "Miss Nellie Ogden" (26 March 1883 – 9 October 1939).
James Patrick Walsh (c. 1853 – 5 February 1936), who had a furniture business in Summer Street, Orange,[32] and a residence on Bathurst Road,[16] was an older brother.