{"id":51853,"date":"2019-12-06T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=51853"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:26:26","slug":"walker-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/12\/walker-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Walker Jr<\/strong>., who portrayed the teenager Charlie Evans on the original series&#8217; <em>Charlie X<\/em>, is dead at the age of seventy-nine.<\/p>\n<p>Born on April 15, 1940 in Queens, New York, to actors<strong> Robert Walker <\/strong>and<strong> Jennifer Jones<\/strong>, trained at the <em>Actors Studio<\/em>. He began his acting career on television by appearing on <em>Route 66<\/em> and <em>Naked City<\/em>, and in the movies with 1963&#8217;s <em>The Hook<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Walker could be seen regularly in the 1960s and 1970s including shows such as <em>Dallas, Ben Casey, The Time Tunnel, Charlie&#8217;s Angels, Columbo, CHiPs, Murder She Wrote,<\/em> and<em> L.A. Law<\/em>; and in films such as <em>The War Wagon, Eve, Easy Rider, Road to Salina, The Happening, The Savage Seven, The Passover Plot<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bob always beat to his own drum and stayed true to himself in all of his endeavors,&#8221; said his wife, Dawn. &#8220;Although an accomplished actor, his true art was living fully. He was a photographer, drummer, raconteur and gallery owner. His love of the ocean kept him in Malibu, and he had great tales of his adventures paddling to Catalina from there. Bob [also] had a constant interest in developing his internal martial arts practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walker was married three times, and is survived by his wife, seven children, and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Walker Jr., who portrayed the teenager Charlie Evans on the original series&#8217; Charlie X,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[5564,9981],"class_list":["post-51853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-charlie-x","tag-walker"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RobertWalkerJrDawnWalker120619.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51855,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853\/revisions\/51855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}