Robert Walker Jr.

Robert Walker Jr. was an American actor who trained at the Actors Studio and became a familiar face on television during the 1960s and early 1970s. He was born in Queens, New York, to the actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones. His first screen work came in 1962 on Route 66 and Naked City, and his film debut followed in The Hook in 1963. He played the lead in Ensign Pulver (1964), opposite Burl Ives and Walter Matthau, and went on to appear in The War Wagon (1967), Young Billy Young (1969) with Robert Mitchum, Easy Rider (1969), and Beware! The Blob (1972). He was possibly best known as Charlie Evans in the Star Trek episode Charlie X, and his later television work included Columbo, Murder, She Wrote and L.A. Law. He retired in 2018 after a small role in Beyond the Darkness (2018).