Robert Walker
Acting
Biography
Robert Walker (October 13, 1918 - August 28, 1951) was an American film actor. He is probably best known for his role as Bruno Anthony in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train.
Born: October 13, 1918
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Known For
Strangers on a Train
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
The Clock
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
What's My Line?
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Song of Love
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Since You Went Away
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
One Touch of Venus
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
Bataan
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Her Highness and the Bellboy
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
Filmography
as Bruno (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as John Jefferson
as Bruno Antony
as Lee Strobie
as Cmdr. William J. Lattimer
as Terence Keath
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Eddie Hatch
as Charles Stone
as Johannes Brahms
as Brock Brewton
as Col. Jeff Nixon
as Jerome Kern
as John Hill
as Corporal Hargrove
as Jimmy Dobson
as Corporal Joe Allen
as David Thatcher
as Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II
as Pvt. Marion Hargrove
as (archive footage)
as David Le Gros
as Leonard Purckett
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
as Boy (uncredited)
as College Boy (uncredited)
as Wes
as Croupier (uncredited)