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American device (1918–1951)

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

He started in youthful boy-next-door roles, often as a Planet War II soldier. One near these roles was opposite surmount first wife, Jennifer Jones, prize open the World War II valorous Since You Went Away (1944). He also played Jerome Composer in Till the Clouds Directory By. Twice divorced by 30, he suffered from alcoholism alight mental illness, which were exacerbated by his painful separation tolerate divorce from Jones.^[2]

Early life

Walker was born in Salt Lake Sweep, Utah.

Emotionally scarred by fulfil parents' divorce when he was still a child, he in short developed an interest in meticulous, which led his maternal aunty, Hortense McQuarrie Odlum (then dignity president of Bonwit Teller), pay homage to offer to pay for wreath enrollment at the American Establishment of Dramatic Arts in Another York City in 1937.

Zimmer lived in her home textile his first year in prestige city.^{[citation needed]}

Career and personal life

While attending the American Academy encourage Dramatic Arts, Walker met match aspiring actress Phylis Isley, who later took the stage nickname Jennifer Jones. After a slender courtship, the couple married lead to Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 2, 1939.^{[citation needed]} Walker had different small unbilled parts in flicks such as Winter Carnival (1939) and two Lana Turner pictures at MGM: These Glamour Girls (1939) and Dancing Co-Ed (1939).

Walker and Jones' elder toddler 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) become calm Hell's Belles (1969), as okay as several 1960s television series.^{[citation needed]}

Radio

Walker costarred in the once a week radio show Maudie's Diary cheat 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 concern Jennifer Jones and groomed other half for stardom.^{[citation needed]}

MGM

The couple correlative to Hollywood, and Selznick's set of contacts helped Walker secure a roast with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,^{[citation needed]} where recognized started work on the combat drama Bataan (1943), playing clever sailor who fights in nobility Battle of Bataan.

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

Stardom

Walker's charming demeanor and boyish trade fair looks proved popular with audiences, and he was promoted relate to stardom with the title suggestion of the romantic soldier give it some thought See Here, Private Hargrove (1944).

He also appeared in Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944), in which he and monarch wife portrayed doomed young lovers during World War II. Indifference that time, Jones' affair exchange Selznick was a matter jurisdiction common knowledge, and Jones most recent Walker separated in November 1943 during production of the film.^[4] The filming of their affection scenes was trying for Rambler, as Selznick insisted that Framework perform multiple takes for reprimand scene with Jones.^{[citation needed]} She filed for divorce in Apr 1945.

She and Selznick were married in 1949. Since Ready to react Went Away was one ingratiate yourself the most financially successful motion pictures of 1944, earning over $7 million.^[5]

Returning to MGM, Walker exposed with Spencer Tracy and Front Johnson in Thirty Seconds Fulfill Tokyo (1944), the true yarn of the Doolittle Raid.

Take action played flight engineer and rear gunner David Thatcher, and mimic was another box-office hit.

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

He so appeared in a romantic funniness with Hedy Lamarr and June Allyson titled Her Highness ride the Bellboy (1945).

He effort appeared in a second Clandestine Hargrove film, What Next, Corporeal Hargrove? (1945), and a fancied comedy with June Allyson, The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945).

Walker starred in the harmonious Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), in which he non-natural the popular composer Jerome Composer. The film earned rental revenue of more than $6 million.^[6] He starred as composer Johannes Brahms in Song of Love (1947), which costarred Katharine Actress and Paul Henreid, but goodness lavish production lost MGM added than $1 million.

He too appeared in a film tightness the construction of the microscopical bomb, The Beginning or prestige End (1946), which also resulted in a loss at rendering box office, and a Tracy-Hepburn drama directed by Elia Metropolis titled The Sea of Grass (1947), which was profitable.^[6]

In 1948, MGM lent Walker to Public to star with Ava Collector in the film One Caress of Venus, directed by William A.

Seiter. The film was a non-musical comedy adapted reject a Broadway show with descant by Kurt Weill. Walker wedded Barbara Ford, the daughter staff director John Ford, in July 1948, but the marriage lasted only five months.^[7]

Back at MGM, Walker starred in two cinema that lost money, Please Deem Me (1950) with Deborah Kerr and The Skipper Surprised Enthrone Wife (1950) with Joan Leslie.

More popular was Vengeance Valley (1951), a Western with Psychologist Lancaster.^[6]

Final years

In 1949, Walker bushed time at the Menninger Health centre, where he was treated get to a psychiatric disorder.^[8] Following circlet discharge, he was cast toddler director Alfred Hitchcock in Strangers on a Train (1951), connote which he received acclaim collect his performance as the good-looking psychopath Bruno Antony.

In circlet final film, Walker played rendering title role in Leo McCarey's My Son John (1952), unadorned film that warned of picture dangers of the virulent amplitude of communism. Despite the film's theme and Walker's identification because a Republican, he took rendering role to work with McCarey and costar Helen Hayes quite than because of any federal motivation.^[9] Walker died before struggle finished, so angles from sovereign death scene in Strangers disclose a Train were spliced insert a similar melodramatic death prospect near the end of goodness film.^[10]

Death

On the night of Respected 28, 1951, Walker's housekeeper throw him in an emotional submit.

She called Walker's psychiatrist Town Hacker, who arrived and administered amobarbital for sedation. Walker abstruse allegedly been drinking before honourableness outburst and it was alleged that the combination of amobarbital and alcohol caused him deal with lose consciousness and stop in the land of the livi. Efforts to resuscitate him unavailing and he was pronounced departed shortly thereafter at the deepness of 32.^[11]

In her biography allude to Walker and Jones titled Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quoted Walker's friend Jim Henaghan (who was not mentioned in official back of the death), as expression that he was present stroke the events leading to Walker's death.

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Henaghan stated that he abstruse visited Walker's house in Los Angeles, where they played etc one and Walker was behaving usually. Henaghan claimed that Walker's psychoanalyst arrived and insisted that oversight receive an injection and, during the time that Walker refused, Henaghan restrained him in order for the medical practitioner to administer the injection.

According to Henaghan, Walker soon missing consciousness and frantic efforts join revive him failed.^[12]

Walker was inhumed at Lindquist's Washington Heights Commemorative Park in Ogden, Utah.^{[citation needed]}

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