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Actor Robert Walker Jr., son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, is no more. He was 79.
Walker Jr. died on Thursday, his family confirmed to the official website for the television show “Star Trek”, reports variety.com.
Walker Jr. is best remembered for playing the titular Charlie Evans in the “Star Trek” episode “Charlie X” from the show’s first season in 1966. His character was a teenage social misfit with psychic powers. The episode was written by D.C. Fontana who also passed away earlier this week.
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Walker Jr. also starred in a handful of 1960s pictures including “Ensign Pulver” with Burl Ives and Walter Matthau, and “Young Billy Young”.
He was born in Queens, New York in 1940, by which time his father was just launching his career as an actor.