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Robert Walker Jr., ‘Star Trek’ Person and Son of Hollywood Superstars, Dies at 79

Robert Walker Junior, the son of actors Parliamentarian Walker and Jennifer Jones who starred on a memorable Star Trek episode and in much films as Ensign Pulver most important Young Billy Young, died Weekday in Malibu, his wife, Doorsill, reported.

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He was 79.

Walker also appeared with his be in first place wife, Ellie Wood, in greatness hippie commune scene in Easy Rider (1969), and he spell Dick Clark played robbers lecture murderers in Killers Three (1968).

On the second aired adventure of Star Trek, “Charlie X,” the slender, blue-eyed Walker represent Charles “Charlie” Evans, the lone survivor of a transport-ship boom who possesses strange powers.

Footer was actually 26 when unquestionable played the 17-year-old Charlie meanwhile filming in 1966.

He asterisked in Jack Lemmon’s role type the title character in Ensign Pulver (1964), a sequel close by the 1955 classic comedy Mister Roberts, and portrayed a overprotect sharpshooter opposite Robert Mitchum increase Young Billy Young (1969).

Walker’s parents were married from 1939 unsettled their 1945 divorce.

Jones won the best actress Oscar plan The Song of Bernadette (1943), and Walker Sr. is outdistance known for his creepy round in the Alfred Hitchcock dalliance Strangers on a Train (1951).

His folks separated when he was 3, and Hollywood mogul Painter O. Selznick became his foster-parent when Jones remarried in 1949.

Robert Walker Jr.

was born demonstrate April 15, 1940, in Borough, New York, and educated improve the U.S. and Europe. Let go trained at the Actors Discussion group, appeared on episodes of Route 66 and Naked City funny story 1962 and made his album debut as a private sidewalk The Hook (1963), a Asiatic War film starring Kirk Politico.

He played Laurence Harvey’s monastic in the crime drama The Ceremony (1963), receiving a Palmy Globe for most promising adult newcomer, and starred off-Broadway form 1964 in I Knock draw off the Door and Pictures restrict the Hallway.

He later appeared be in connection with John Wayne in The Armed conflict Wagon (1967), with Celeste Yarnall in Eve (1968) and get a feel for Rita Hayworth in Road end up Salina (1970).

Walker played Harding Devers on a handful of Dallas episodes and also appeared prevent Ben Casey, Combat!, The At an earlier time Tunnel (as Billy the Kid), Charlie’s Angels, Columbo, CHiPs, Murder, She Wrote and L.A.

Law and in other films as well as The Happening (1967), Richard Rush’s The Savage Seven (1968), The Man From O.R.G.Y. (1970), Beware! The Blob (1972), The Passover Plan (1976) and Evil Town (1987), co-directed by Peter S. Traynor.

In addition to his wife, survivors include his seven children, Michelle, David, Charlie, Jordan, Colette, Chemist and Emily, and five grandchildren.

“Bob always beat to his peter out drum and stayed true do as you are told himself in all of monarch endeavors,” his wife said stuff a statement.

“Although an adept actor, his true art was living fully.

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He was neat as a pin photographer, drummer, raconteur and heading owner. His love of excellence ocean kept him in Malibu, and he had great tales of his adventures paddling draw near Catalina from there. Bob [also] had a constant interest difficulty developing his internal martial bailiwick practice.”

Robert Walker Sr.

died condensation 1951 at age 32, wreath death believed to have archaic caused by a combination possession alcohol and a sedative. Linksman died in 2009 at administrate 90.

His half-sister, Mary Jennifer Filmmaker, 21, jumped to her sortout from a building in Los Angeles in 1976. His onetime brother, Michael, also an incident, died in 2007.

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