Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was an American actor who was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. He became less active in later decades.
Walker appeared in films and television from the early 1960s onwards. His movies include the title role in Ensign Pulver with Burl Ives and Walter Matthau; The War Wagon with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas; the title role in Young Billy Young, alongside Robert Mitchum; Easy Rider, and Beware! The Blob, or—Son of Blob. He featured in ' with Nancy Kwan, Christopher George, Woody Strode, and Sorapong Chatree. In the 1960s, Walker appeared in the television series Route 66. He played the title role of an emotionally disturbedactor who lived and performed on the streets and in circuses, in Naked City episode "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street". In The Big Valley episode "My Son, My Son,", Walker portrayed Evan Miles, an emotionally disturbed college dropout who becomes obsessed with childhood friend Audra Barkley. Walker was cast in the ' episode "Charlie X" 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". In addition he had the title role in an episode of The Time Tunnel titled "Billy the Kid". He also portrayed Nick Baxter, an ill alien who caused the deaths of humans by touch, in an episode of The Invaders. He played Mark Cole in an episode of Bonanza. In the 1970s, Walker had a role in an episode of Columbo, and as an innocent longshoreman who takes the blame for a murder on Quincy, M.E.. He also appeared in the pilot episode of The Eddie Capra Mysteries. 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", and as a mentally handicapped man in "Shear Madness". 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 before officially retiring in 2018.
