Robert Walker

ROBERT WALKER d1951. American actor who starred as the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on a Train (1951) which was released shortly before his early demise. He started in youthful boy-next-door roles often as a World War 2 soldier. One of these roles was opposite his first wife (Jennifer Jones) in the World War II epic Since You Went Away (1944). 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. He died in California aged just 32 on August 28th 1951