Robert Walker, Jr.

For other people named Robert Walker, see Robert Walker (disambiguation).

Robert Walker Jr.
File:Robert Walker, Jr. (publicity still - 1963).JPG Walker in 1963
Born	Robert Hudson Walker Jr. (1940-04-15)April 15, 1940 Queens, New York, U.S.
Died	Malibu, California, U.S.
Years active	1956–1991
Spouse(s)	Ellie Wood Walker (m. 1962; div. 1976) Judy Motulsky (m. 1978; div. ??) Dawn Walker (m. 19??)
Children	7
Parent(s)	Robert Walker Jennifer Jones

Robert Hudson Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor who was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. He became less active in later decades.

Early life

Walker was born in Queens, New York and was the elder son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones. He attended The Lawrenceville School near Princeton before beginning his acting career.

Walker studied Tai Chi Chuan under Marshall Ho'o, a skill which he later exhibited in his role in the movie Easy Rider.

Career

Walker 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
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)

External links

• Robert Walker, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database
• "Actor Robert Walker Jr. and friend, Malibu, 1965", photograph by Dennis Hopper from 2011 book of Hopper's photographs, via The Independent.