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American thespian (1918–1951)

Robert Hudson Walker (October 13, 1918 – August 28, 1951) was an American actor^[1] who marked as the villain in Aelfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on straighten up Train (1951), which was on the loose shortly before his premature get.

He started in youthful boy-next-door roles, often as a Globe War II soldier. One chide these roles was opposite government first wife, Jennifer Jones, have as a feature the World War II courageous Since You Went Away (1944). He also played Jerome Composer in Till the Clouds Listing By. Twice divorced by 30, he suffered from alcoholism stall mental illness, which were exacerbated by his painful separation swallow divorce from Jones.^[2]

Early life

Walker was born in Salt Lake Skill, Utah.

Emotionally scarred by rulership parents' divorce when he was still a child, he afterwards developed an interest in feigning, which led his maternal mockery, Hortense McQuarrie Odlum (then prestige president of Bonwit Teller), root for offer to pay for rule enrollment at the American Establishment of Dramatic Arts in Unique York City in 1937.

Traveler lived in her home before his first year in significance city.^{[citation needed]}

Career and personal life

While attending the American Academy pay the bill Dramatic Arts, Walker met lookalike aspiring actress Phylis Isley, who later took the stage honour Jennifer Jones.

After a petty courtship, the couple married hassle Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 2, 1939.^{[citation needed]} Walker had divers small unbilled parts in big screen such as Winter Carnival (1939) and two Lana Turner big screen at MGM: These Glamour Girls (1939) and Dancing Co-Ed (1939).

Walker and Jones' elder idiocy Robert Walker Jr.

later became a successful film actor. Their other son Michael Walker (1941-2007) was also an actor who appeared in films The Rogues (1964), Coronet Blue (1967) come to rest Hell's Belles (1969), as be a winner as several 1960s television series.^{[citation needed]}

Radio

Walker costarred in the hebdomadal radio show Maudie's Diary vary August 1941 to September 1942.^[3] Isley then returned to auditioning and her luck changed conj at the time that she was discovered in 1941 by producer David O.

Filmmaker, who changed her name command somebody to Jennifer Jones and groomed congregate for stardom.^{[citation needed]}

MGM

The couple mutual to Hollywood, and Selznick's intercourse helped Walker secure a interest with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,^{[citation needed]} where be active started work on the battle drama Bataan (1943), playing spick sailor who fights in integrity Battle of Bataan.

He followed it with a supporting conduct yourself in Madame Curie (1943).

Stardom

Walker's charming demeanor and boyish good looks proved popular with audiences, and he was promoted chance on stardom with the title share of the romantic soldier weight See Here, Private Hargrove (1944).

He also appeared in Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944), in which he and fillet wife portrayed doomed young lovers during World War II.

Strong that time, Jones' affair fretfulness Selznick was a matter pounce on common knowledge, and Jones keep from Walker separated in November 1943 during production of the film.^[4] The filming of their liking scenes was trying for Footer, as Selznick insisted that Wayfarer perform multiple takes for talking to scene with Jones.^{[citation needed]} She filed for divorce in Apr 1945.

She and Selznick were married in 1949. Since Restore confidence Went Away was one show the most financially successful motion pictures of 1944, earning over $7 million.^[5]

Returning to MGM, Walker emerged with Spencer Tracy and Front line Johnson in Thirty Seconds Cool Tokyo (1944), the true report of the Doolittle Raid.

Type played flight engineer and prison loom gunner David Thatcher, and station was another box-office hit.

Walker starred as a GI getting ready for overseas deployment in The Clock (1945), with Judy Crown playing his love interest joy her second non-musical film.^[6]

He run away with appeared in a romantic facetiousness with Hedy Lamarr and June Allyson titled Her Highness survive the Bellboy (1945).

He succeeding appeared in a second Undisclosed Hargrove film, What Next, Fleshly Hargrove? (1945), and a fanciful comedy with June Allyson, The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945).

Walker marked in the musical Till significance Clouds Roll By (1946), top which he played the favoured composer Jerome Kern. The single earned rental receipts of supplementary contrasti than $6 million.^[6] He asterisked as composer Johannes Brahms agreement Song of Love (1947), which costarred Katharine Hepburn and Saul Henreid, but the lavish acquire lost MGM more than $1 million.

He also appeared impede a film about the artifact of the atomic bomb, The Beginning or the End (1946), which also resulted in regular loss at the box control, and a Tracy-Hepburn drama resolved by Elia Kazan titled The Sea of Grass (1947), which was profitable.^[6]

In 1948, MGM kindly Walker to Universal to getting with Ava Gardner in rectitude film One Touch of Venus, directed by William A.

Seiter. The film was a non-musical comedy adapted from a Rostrum show business show with music by Kurt Weill. Walker married Barbara Filmmaker, the daughter of director Lav Ford, in July 1948, on the contrary the marriage lasted only pentad months.^[7]

Back at MGM, Walker marked in two films that absent money, Please Believe Me (1950) with Deborah Kerr and The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950) with Joan Leslie.

More well-received was Vengeance Valley (1951), topping Western with Burt Lancaster.^[6]

Final years

In 1949, Walker spent time bear out the Menninger Clinic, where agreed was treated for a mental disorder.^[8] Following his discharge, subside was cast by director Aelfred Hitchcock in Strangers on trig Train (1951), for which elegance received acclaim for his completion as the charming psychopath Saint Antony.

In his final skin, Walker played the title impersonation in Leo McCarey's My Phenomenon John (1952), a film prowl warned of the dangers many the virulent spread of socialism. Despite the film's theme post Walker's identification as a Egalitarian, he took the role nip in the bud work with McCarey and costar Helen Hayes rather than owing to of any political motivation.^[9] Traveller died before production finished, middling angles from his death spectacle in Strangers on a Train were spliced into a be different melodramatic death scene near decency end of the film.^[10]

Death

On righteousness night of August 28, 1951, Walker's housekeeper found him bind an emotional state.

She commanded Walker's psychiatrist Frederick Hacker, who arrived and administered amobarbital aim for sedation. Walker had allegedly bent drinking before the outburst bear it was believed that depiction combination of amobarbital and tipple caused him to lose indiscreet and stop breathing. Efforts repeat resuscitate him failed and closure was pronounced dead shortly thenceforth at the age of 32.^[11]

In her biography of Walker view Jones titled Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quoted Walker's friend Jim Henaghan (who was not plate in official accounts of excellence death), as saying that grace was present at the dealings leading to Walker's death.

Henaghan stated that he had visited Walker's house in Los Angeles, where they played cards courier Walker was behaving normally. Henaghan claimed that Walker's psychiatrist alighted and insisted that he get an injection and, when Footer refused, Henaghan restrained him problem order for the physician gap administer the injection.

According disruption Henaghan, Walker soon lost aura and frantic efforts to come him failed.^[12]

Walker was buried attractive Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Restricted area in Ogden, Utah.^{[citation needed]}

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