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Robert Walker, Jr. 1940 - 2019

Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was born on April 15, 1940 in Queens County, New York United States, and died at age 79 years old on December 5, 2019 in Malibu, Los Angeles County, CA.
Robert Hudson Walker Jr.
Robert Walker Jr.
April 15, 1940
Queens County, New York, United States
December 5, 2019
Malibu, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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    Robert Walker Jr. American actor Description Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was an American actor who was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. Born: April 15, 1940, Queens, New York, NY Died: December 5, 2019, Malibu, CA Children: Henry Walker, Emily Walker, Colette Walker, Jordan Walker Spouse: Eleanor Wood (m. 1961–1976), Dawn Walker (m. ?–2019) Parents: Robert Walker, Jennifer Jones
  • 04/15
    1940

    Birthday

    April 15, 1940
    Birthdate
    Queens County, New York United States
    Birthplace
  • Professional Career

    Career He appeared in films and television from the early 1960s onwards. His movies include the title role in Ensign Pulver (1964) with Burl Ives and Walter Matthau; The War Wagon (1967) with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas; the title role in Young Billy Young, alongside Robert Mitchum; Easy Rider (both 1969), and Beware! The Blob, or—Son of Blob (1972). He featured in Angkor: Cambodia Express (1982) with Nancy Kwan, Christopher George, Woody Strode, and Sorapong Chatree. In the 1960s, Walker appeared in the television series Route 66 ("Across Walnuts and Wine", 1962). He played the title role and an emotionally disturbed character who was a troubled actor who lived and performed on the streets and in circuses, in Naked City episode "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street" (also 1962). In The Big Valley episode "My Son, My Son," (1965), Walker portrayed Evan Miles, an emotionally disturbed college dropout who becomes obsessed with childhood friend Audra Barkley. Walker was cast role in the Star Trek episode "Charlie X" (1966) as Charles 'Charlie' Evans, a 17-year-old adolescent and social misfit with psychic powers. Walker appeared in the fifth season of the series Combat! in the episode "Ollie Joe" (also 1966). In addition he had the title role in an episode of The Time Tunnel entitled "Billy the Kid" (1967). He also portrayed Nick Baxter, an ill alien who caused the deaths of humans by touch, in an episode of The Invaders ("Panic", 1967). He played Mark Cole in an episode of Bonanza ("The Gentle Ones", 1967). In the 1970s, Walker had a role in an episode of Columbo ("Mind Over Mayhem", 1974), and as an innocent longshoreman who takes the blame for a murder on Quincy, M.E. ("The Hero Syndrome", 1977). He also appeared in the pilot episode of The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978). Walker maintained an episodic presence on television in the 1980s and 1990s. He guest-starred in two episodes of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury, the first time in "The Corpse Flew First Class" (1987), and as a mentally handicapped man in "Shear Madness" (1990). His last television performances were in L.A. Law and In the Heat of the Night, both in 1991. He also made a television series appearance in 1993 and had a small role in the film Beyond the Darkness (2016). Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1963 The Hook Pvt. O.A. Dennison 1963 The Ceremony Dominic 1964 Ensign Pulver Ensign Frank Pulver 1965 The Touching and the Not Touching 1966 COMBAT! Ollie Joe Brown Episode: "Ollie Joe" 1966 Star Trek Charlie Evans Episode: "Charlie X" 1967 The Time Tunnel Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney) Episode: "Billy the Kid" 1967 The Happening Herby 1967 The War Wagon Billy Hyatt 1967 Bonanza Mark Cole Episode: "The Gentle Ones" 1967 The Invaders Nick Baxter Episode: "Panic" 1968 The Savage Seven Johnnie 1968 Eve Mike Yates 1968 Killers Three Johnny Warder 1969 Agilok & Blubbo Agilok 1969 Easy Rider Jack 1969 Young Billy Young Billy Young 1970 The Man from O.R.G.Y. Steve Victor 1970 Road to Salina Jonas 1972 Beware! The Blob Bobby Hartford 1973 Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman Le guitariste 1973 Hex Chupo [3] 1974 The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1974 Gone with the West Sheriff of Black Miller 1976 The Passover Plot Bar Talmi 1977 Quincy, M.E. Peter Thorwald 1977 Evil Town Mike Segal 1978 The Six Million Dollar Man Cloche / Bell 2 episodes 1982 CHiPs Tom Corey Episode: "Ice Cream Man" 1982 Angkor: Cambodia Express Andrew Cameron 1983 Olivia Michael 'Mike' Grant 1983 Making of a Male Model Joseph TV movie 1983 The Devonsville Terror Matthew Pendleton 1983 Hambone and Hillie The Wanderer 2018 Beyond the Darkness Agent Mills (final film role)
  • 12/5
    2019

    Death

    December 5, 2019
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Malibu, Los Angeles County, California United States
    Death location
  • Obituary

    Robert Walker Jr., best known for a classic early Star Trek episode and as the son of Hollywood stars Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, died Thursday in Malibu, according to family members. He was 79. The New York native portrayed the twitchy, callow title character in “Charlie X,” the second episode of Star Trek’s pioneering first season in 1966, and also handled the title role of the notable 1960s feature films Ensign Pulver and Young Billy Young. For Ensign Pulver, the comedic 1964 naval drama, Walker inherited a role that had earned Jack Lemmon an Oscar for best supporting actor for Mister Roberts (1955). In the 1969 gunfighter tale Young Billy Young, Walker was the volatile outlaw who finds a mentor in Robert Mitchum in film that also featured Angie Dickinson and David Carradine. That same year Walker and his wife, Ellie Wood, appeared together in the milestone counter-culture epic Easy Rider. On television his career spanned 20 years and his many credits included roles on Route 66, Ben Casey, Combat!, Bonanza, The Time Tunnel, The Six Million Dollar Man, Quincy, M.E.,Charlie’s Angels, Columbo, CHiPs, L.A. Law, and Murder, She Wrote. It was his role in Federation space, however, that earned Walker his most lasting screen legacy. Walker was 26 when he played the callow 17-year-old Charlie Evans, aka Charlie X, on the second episode of Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi series for NBC. The petulant Charlie came aboard the USS Enterprise as a rescued castaway who survived 14 solitary years amid the wreckage of a downed transport ship. The memorable episode, penned by D.C. Fontana, takes a dark turn when the orphaned teen’s dangerous secret and formidable mental powers are revealed. Walker was born in Queens in April of 1940, the year after his father (best remembered as Alfred Hitchcock’s off-kilter killer in the 1951 classic Strangers on a Train) and his mother (the Academy Award-winner from The Song of Bernadette in 1943) were married. The marriage ended in 1945. Four years later, the youngster got a powerful stepfather when Jones married David O. Selznick, the Hollywood titan who produced Gone with the Wind and Rebecca.
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Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker Sr. with Robert Jr. and Michael.
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