Walter Howard was an English playwright and actor. Several of his plays had there premieres at the Grand Junction Theatre in Hulme, Manchester; including The Midnight Wedding and Second to None. The Midnight Wedding was performed in the West End at the Lyceum Theatre, London in 1907, and was the basis for a 1912 silent film of the same name. His play The Prince and the Beggar Maid was also staged at the Lyceum Theatre in 1908, and was revived there in 1910. It was the basis for the 1921 silent film The Prince and the Beggarmaid.