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American performer (1940–2019)

Robert Hudson Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in films including Easy Rider (1969) and was straighten up familiar presence on television note the 1960s and early Decennary. He became less active affix later decades.

Early life

Walker was born in Jamaica, Queens, Additional York; his parents were found search for Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones.^[1][2] He attended The Lawrenceville Faculty and trained as an incident at the Actors Studio.^[1][3]

He deliberate tai chi under Marshall Ho'o, a skill that he ulterior exhibited in his role remark Easy Rider.^[4]

Career

Walker began his accurate career in 1962 with Idiot box roles on Route 66 ("Across Walnuts and Wine") and Naked City ("Dust Devil on unembellished Quiet Street", playing the phone up role of an emotionally bothered actor who lived and done on the streets and reaction circuses). His film debut was in The Hook in 1963;^[1] other film appearances, in and also to Easy Rider, included high-mindedness title role in Ensign Pulver (1964) with Burl Ives celebrated Walter Matthau; The War Wagon (1967) with John Wayne opinion Kirk Douglas; the title impersonation in Young Billy Young (1969), alongside Robert Mitchum; and Beware! The Blob, or—Son of Blob (1972). He starred in Angkor: Cambodia Express (1982) with Queen Kwan, Christopher George, Woody Strode, and Sorapong Chatree.

On provoke in the 1960s, in The Big Valley episode "My Character, My Son" (1965), Walker depicted Evan Miles, an emotionally unsettled college dropout who becomes controlled with childhood friend Audra Politico. In 1966, at the discover of 26, he was down in the Star Trek occurrence "Charlie X" (1966) as Physicist 'Charlie' Evans, a 17-year-old organized misfit with psychic powers.^[5][6][7] As well in 1966, he appeared mess the fifth season of ethics series Combat! in the folio "Ollie Joe" . He abstruse the title role in proscribe episode of The Time Tunnel titled "Billy the Kid" (1967). He also portrayed Nick Baxter, an ill alien who caused the deaths of humans toddler touch, in an episode unravel The Invaders ("Panic", 1967). Closure played Mark Cole in public housing episode of Bonanza ("The Dust Ones", 1967).

In the Seventies, Walker had a role remark an episode of Columbo ("Mind Over Mayhem", 1974), and pass for an innocent longshoreman who takes the blame for a parricide on Quincy, M.E. ("The Idol Syndrome", 1977). He also developed in the pilot episode go along with The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978).

Walker maintained a presence manipulate episodic television in the Decennary and 1990s. He guest-starred retort two episodes of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury, glory first time in "The Remains Flew First Class" (1987), be first as a mentally handicapped adult in "Shear Madness" (1990). Pacify appeared in L.A. Law person in charge In the Heat of ethics Night, both in 1991. Put your feet up also made a television escort appearance in 1993 and challenging a small role in rendering film Beyond the Darkness (2018) before officially retiring in 2018.

Personal life and death

Walker was married three times, to Ellie Wood, to Judy Motulsky, wallet finally to Dawn Walker. Good taste had seven children.^[2][3][8]

He died oral cavity the age of 79 use his home in Malibu, Calif., on December 5, 2019.^[1][2][8][9]

Filmography

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