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Robert Walker Jr. is a Actor and Director American born on 15 april 1940 at New York City (USA)

Robert Walker Jr.

Robert Walker Jr.
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Birth name Robert Hudson Walker
Nationality USA
Birth 15 april 1940 at New York City (USA)
Death 5 december 2019 (at 79 years)

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

Biography

Robert Walker Jr. est le fils des acteurs Jennifer Jones et Robert Walker. Souvent, il est crédité Robert Walker, comme son père.

Robert Walker est né dans le Queens, à New York. Il a fréquenté la Lawrenceville School près de Princeton avant de commencer sa carrière d'acteur.

Robert Walker a étudié le tai-chi-chuan avec Marshall Ho'o, une compétence qu'il a ensuite exposée dans son rôle dans le film Easy Rider.

Il participe à des films américains entre 1963 et 1987 (notamment des westerns et des films d'horreur), ainsi qu'à deux coproductions avec la France en 1970 et 1973.

À la télévision, il apparaît dans des téléfilms et séries (Columbo, Les Envahisseurs, Star Trek...) de 1956 à 1991.



Il est apparu dans les films et la télévision à partir du début des années 1960. Ses films incluent le rôle principal dans Ensign Pulver (1964) avec Burl Ives et Walter Matthau, The War Wagon (1967) avec John Wayne et Kirk Douglas, le rôle principal dans Young Billy Young aux côtés de Robert Mitchum en 1969, Easy Rider, également en 1969, et méfiez-vous! The Blob, ou «fils de Blob» en 1972. En 1982, il interprète Angkor: Cambodia Express avec Nancy Kwan, Christopher George, Woody Strode et Sorapong Chatree.

Dans les années 1960, Walker est apparu dans un épisode de 1962 ("Across Walnuts and Wine", S3E07) de la série télévisée classique Route 66. Il a joué le rôle principal et un personnage émotionnellement perturbé qui était un acteur troublé qui a vécu et joué dans les rues et dans les cirques, dans l'épisode de Naked City "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street" du 28 novembre 1962. Dans l'épisode de The Big Valley "Mon fils, mon fils", diffusé le 3 novembre 1965 (S1E08), Walker décrivait Evan Miles, un étudiant en décrochage scolaire troublé par les émotions et obsédé par son ami d’enfance Audra Barkley. Il a eu un rôle mémorable dans Star Trek en tant que Charles 'Charlie' Evans, un adolescent de 17 ans et social inadapté avec des pouvoirs psychiques dans l'épisode "Charlie X", diffusé le 15 septembre 1966 (S1E02). Walker apparaît dans la cinquième saison de la série Combat! Dans l'épisode "Ollie Joe" du 27 septembre 1966 (S5E03). En plus, il avait le rôle principal dans "Billy the Kid", épisode 22 de The Time Tunnel, diffusé à l'origine le 10 février 1967. Il décrit également Nick Baxter, un étranger malade qui a provoqué la mort humaine par contact, dans l'épisode "Panic" de la série télévisée The Envahisseurs, diffusée le 11 avril 1967 (S1, E14). Il incarne Mark Cole dans l'épisode de Bonanza du 29 octobre 1967 intitulé "The Gentle Ones" (S09, E07).

Dans les années 1970, Walker avait joué un rôle dans un épisode de Columbo, "Mind Over Mayhem" (S3E06, 1974), et en tant que débardeur innocent accusant le meurtre de Quincy, ME "The Hero Syndrome" (S3 E09). en 1977. Il est également apparu dans l'épisode pilote de 1978 de The Eddie Capra Mysteries.

Walker a maintenu une présence épisodique à la télévision dans les années 1980 et 1990. Il a joué dans deux épisodes de Murder. Il a joué avec Angela Lansbury une fois en 1987 et une autre fois en 1990 le rôle d'un homme handicapé mental dans "Shear Madness" (S06, E20). Ses dernières représentations à l'écran étaient dans les séries télévisées LA Law et In the Heat of the Night , toutes deux en 1991. Il a également fait une apparition dans une série télévisée en 1993 et a joué un petit rôle en 2016 dans le film Au-delà de l'obscurité.

Usually with

Cliff Lyons
Cliff Lyons
(1 films)
John Wayne
John Wayne
(1 films)
Chuck Hayward
Chuck Hayward
(2 films)
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
(2 films)
Ulli Lommel
Ulli Lommel
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Walker Jr. (20 films)

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Actor

Evil Town
Evil Town (1987)
, 1h28
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors James Keach, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker Jr., Hope Summers, Doria Cook-Nelson, Dabbs Greer
Roles Mike Segal
Rating38% 1.940911.940911.940911.940911.94091
The film depicts an evil scientist's (Dean Jagger) campaign to achieve eternal youth, through synthesizing a drug derived from human pituitary fluid. In extracting the fluid, he creates mindless zombies from the donors. Because the local town residents are in on the plot, to achieve immortality, they help the scientist, by abducting visitors who come through town.
Making of a Male Model, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum, Arte Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Roxie Roker, Ted McGinley
Roles Joseph
Rating59% 2.9946152.9946152.9946152.9946152.994615
Kay Dillon (Joan Collins), a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett (Jon-Erik Hexum) in Nevada, while attending an outdoor shoot. She notices his good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working as a model. Burnett, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, accepts the invitation and goes to New York, where he shares an apartment with another model, Chuck Lanyard. Lanyard is addicted to alcohol and drugs; he is 35 years old, and therefore too old to be successful in the business. Burnett, who does not understand Lanyard's problems at first, is now being turned into one of America's best looking models by his agent and soon wins his first professional assignment.
The Devonsville Terror, 1h22
Directed by Ulli Lommel
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Suzanna Love, Donald Pleasence, Robert Walker Jr., Paul Willson
Roles Matthew Pendleton
Rating49% 2.455652.455652.455652.455652.45565
The film opens in 1683 Massachusetts where three women in the town of Devonsville are kidnapped by the townsfolk and systematically tortured and executed. After the final woman's execution, her apparition appears in the sky and a thunderstorm begins.
McVicar
McVicar (1980)
, 1h48
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray, Georgina Hale, Steven Berkoff
Roles Codriver
Rating66% 3.3466253.3466253.3466253.3466253.346625
John McVicar était un caïd londonien. Il est passé au braquage de banque à main armée et est devenue l'"ennemi public n° 1" de Grande-Bretagne. Il a été capturé et placé dans une prison de haute sécurité, mais sera-t-elle en mesure de le retenir ? Voici l'histoire vraie de sa vie, de ses exploits criminels et de sa réhabilitation.
The Passover Plot, 1h48
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Zalman King, Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith, Dan Hedaya, Donald Pleasence, Scott Wilson
Roles Bar Talmi
Rating39% 1.9854251.9854251.9854251.9854251.985425
Une secte religieuse, les Zélotes, vole en secret le corps du Christ afin de réaliser la prophétie de sa résurrection et de rallier la population à leur cause...
Gone with the West, 1h32
Directed by Bernard Girard
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Caan, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, Barbara Werle, Robert Walker Jr., Sammy Davis Jr.
Roles Sheriff of Black Miller
Rating31% 1.5868451.5868451.5868451.5868451.586845
Jud McGraw gets out of prison and seeks revenge against Mimmo, a man who wronged him. He meets Little Moon, a woman who also has good reason to go looking for justice.
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman, 1h30
Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Robert Walker Jr.
Roles Le guitariste
Rating51% 2.5500852.5500852.5500852.5500852.550085
Jeanne (Bardot) plays a modern-day Don Juan–styled woman who prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms. She reveals to a priest a murder she committed and frankly details her past sexual encounters.
Hex
Hex (1973)
, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Western
Actors Keith Carradine, Cristina Raines, Scott Glenn, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, Robert Walker Jr.
Roles Chupo
Rating47% 2.385772.385772.385772.385772.38577
Set in 1919, immediately after the First World War, a loosely knit band of motorcyclists back from fighting in Europe is making their way across the United States to seek their fortunes in California. They come upon the fictional town of Bingo, Nebraska and are challenged to a race by a local hot rodder. The outcome of the race is disputed, and the bikers flee into the surrounding countryside. They hide on a farm owned by two sisters, Oriole and Acacia, whose recently deceased father was a Native American shaman. The bikers are soon discovered by the sisters, who reluctantly allow them to stay overnight. One of the bikers attempts to rape the younger sister, after which the older sister dons her father's shaman regalia and casts a hex on the gang. The bikers soon start departing this world in not so natural ways.
Beware! The Blob, 1h31
Directed by Larry Hagman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Carol Lynley, Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Marlene Clark
Roles Bobby Hartford
Rating41% 2.0650952.0650952.0650952.0650952.065095
Left off after the events of the first movie The Blob, an oil pipeline layer named Chester (Godfrey Cambridge) returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. Prior to taking the blob to a lab to be analyzed, he places the storage container with the substance in his freezer, but he and his wife (Marlene Clark) accidentally let it thaw, releasing "the Blob". It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, Chester's wife, and then Chester himself (while he is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob).
Road to Salina, 1h36
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Mimsy Farmer, Rita Hayworth, Marc Porel, Ed Begley, Ivano Staccioli
Roles Jonas
Rating66% 3.340493.340493.340493.340493.34049
Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina. He stops to drink some water at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago. Jonas is overwhelmed by the awkward situation, but tired and hungry, accepts Mara’s offer of room and board. Feeling sorry for Mara, he pretends to be her beloved son and soon comfortably assume Rocky’s identity. Initially, he believes that Mara is simply delusional, but when Mara’s old friend and neighbor Warren arrives for a visit, surprisingly, he also acts as if Jonas were Rocky.
The Man from O.R.G.Y.
Directed by James Hill (réalisateur britannique)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Louisa Moritz, Steve Rossi
Roles Steve Victor
Rating46% 2.305092.305092.305092.305092.30509
Protagonist Steve Victor (Robert Walker, Jr.) is a spy and scientific investigator for the group Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth (O.R.G.Y.). Victor is given a mission to determine the location of three prostitutes that are due US$15 million from their deceased female manager. Victor starts off the trail only knowing that the three women each have a tattoo on their buttocks of a gopher grinning. He is stymied in his efforts by hired assassins Luigi (Steve Rossi) and Vito (Slappy White). Luigi and Vito have an interest in the investigation because they provided financing for the burlesque business. Another prostitute Gina (Louisa Moritz) states her lack of interest in her owed portion of the monies as she does not wish her wealthy spouse to find out about her activities. Gina tells Victor some clues about how to locate the other two women, although Victor later discovers they are both deceased. Gina had murdered them for in actuality she wants the money. She kills Vito by thrusting a knife into him as he is planning on murdering Victor. Gina turns to kill Victor, but he first shoots the woman and she dies after falling from a window.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider (1969)
, 1h34
Directed by Dennis Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies
Actors Jack Nicholson, Luke Askew, Karen Black, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Toni Basil
Roles Jack
Rating71% 3.59913.59913.59913.59913.5991
The protagonists are two freewheeling hippies: Wyatt (Fonda), nicknamed "Captain America", and Billy (Hopper). Fonda and Hopper said that these characters' names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather (with an Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge affixed to it), while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat. The former is appreciative of help and of others, while the latter is often hostile and leery of outsiders.
Young Billy Young, 1h29
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Parley Baer, Robert Walker Jr., David Carradine, Jack Kelly
Roles Billy Young
Rating57% 2.8532052.8532052.8532052.8532052.853205
On the trail, Ben Kane, a former Dodge City lawman, comes across Billy Young, who has no horse and was abandoned by partner Jesse Boone soon after the killing of a Mexican general.
The Savage Seven, 1h34
Directed by Richard Rush
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Joanna Frank, Larry Bishop, Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Penny Marshall
Roles Johnnie
Rating54% 2.7077152.7077152.7077152.7077152.707715
Kisum, the leader of a motorcycle gang is in love with waitress Marcia Little Hawk. Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk, the leader of a group of Native Americans is not happy about the two of them being together. The two groups alternate between being allies and adversaries, eventually joining forces, but a scheme by crooked businessmen force them at odds with each other.
Eve
Eve (1968)
, 1h34
Directed by Robert Lynn
Genres Thriller, Adventure
Actors Celeste Yarnall, Robert Walker Jr., Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, Fred Clark, Maria Rohm
Roles Mike Yates
Rating47% 2.3922852.3922852.3922852.3922852.392285
An explorer looking for a priceless missing Inca treasure in the Amazon jungle runs across a lost young woman named Eve, who is worshipped as a goddess by jungle natives. Eve is also being pursued by a showman who wants her for his freak show; by the natives who now want to kill her for helping a white man; and by an explorer, Eve's grandfather, who wants to silence her.