Robert Walker
Actor, Film actor
1918 – 1951
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Who was Robert Walker?
Robert Hudson Walker was an American actor, best known for his starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train.
He started in youthful boy-next-door roles, one of them opposite his first wife Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away. He also played Jerome Kern in Till the Clouds Roll By. Twice divorced by 30, he suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, which were exacerbated by his painful separation and divorce from Jones.
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- Born
- Oct 13, 1918
Salt Lake City - Also known as
- Robert Hudson Walker
- Robert Walker Sr.
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jennifer Jones
(1939/01/02 - 1945/06/20) - Hanna Hertelendy
(1949/07/27 - 1951/08/28) - Barbara Ford
(1948/07/08 - 1948/12/16)
- Jennifer Jones
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Lived in
- Salt Lake City
- Died
- Aug 28, 1951
Los Angeles - Resting place
- Lindquists Washington Heights Memorial Park
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on July 23, 2013
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