Robert Walker (1918-1951) was an American actor. Walker is best remembered for his starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951). Sadly, Walker passed away less than two months after Strangers on a Train was released. He appeared in movies from 1939 to 1952. His IMDb page shows 23 acting credits. This page will rank 20 Robert Walker Movies in 6 different statistical categories. His first three uncredited roles were not included in the rankings.
Robert Walker Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1944
Since You Went Away (1944)
AA Best Picture Nom
1943
Madame Curie (1943)
AA Best Picture Nom
1945
The Clock (1945)
1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
1946
Till The Clouds Roll By (1946)
1951
Strangers on a Train (1951)
1943
Bataan (1943)
1947
The Sea of Grass (1947)
1947
Song of Love (1947)
1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
1944
See Here Private Hargroves (1944)
1945
The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
1945
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
1947
The Beginning or the End (1947)
1951
Vengeance Valley (1951)
1950
The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)
1948
One Touch Of Venus (1948)
1950
Please Believe Me (1950)
1952
My Son John (1952)
1948
My Own True Love (1948)
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Since You Went Away (1944) AA Best Picture Nom |
Claudette Colbert & Shirley Temple |
14.00 | 545.0 | 545.00 | 2 | 73 | 09 / 01 | 98.5 | |
| 2 | Madame Curie (1943) AA Best Picture Nom |
Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon |
7.40 | 306.5 | 548.80 | 24 | 72 | 07 / 00 | 98.0 | |
| 4 | The Clock (1945) | Judy Garland & Directed by Vincent Minnelli |
6.00 | 221.9 | 284.20 | 54 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 97.6 | |
| 3 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) | Spencer Tracy & Robert Mitchum |
13.90 | 541.5 | 787.20 | 3 | 78 | 02 / 01 | 97.4 | |
| 5 | Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) | Judy Garland & Van Johnson |
12.90 | 459.6 | 650.40 | 9 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 93.9 | |
| 7 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | Farley Granger & Directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
5.10 | 127.7 | 209.70 | 57 | 90 | 00 / 00 | 93.8 | |
| 8 | Bataan (1943) | Thomas Mitchell | 5.90 | 243.9 | 371.10 | 44 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 93.8 | |
| 6 | The Sea of Grass (1947) | Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy |
8.50 | 287.6 | 428.10 | 24 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 92.7 | |
| 7 | Song of Love (1947) | Katharine Hepburn & Paul Henreid |
8.40 | 283.1 | 398.80 | 25 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 92.0 | |
| 11 | Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) | Agnes Moorehead & June Allyson |
6.30 | 232.8 | 323.60 | 46 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 90.5 | |
| 9 | See Here Private Hargroves (1944) | Donna Reed | 9.20 | 358.5 | 358.50 | 19 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 90.3 | |
| 12 | The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) | June Allyson | 6.30 | 231.7 | 261.30 | 47 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 13 | What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) | Keenan Wynn | 6.20 | 229.8 | 229.80 | 49 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 87.8 | |
| 14 | The Beginning or the End (1947) | Norman Lloyd | 3.30 | 111.5 | 177.30 | 105 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 84.6 | |
| 15 | Vengeance Valley (1951) | Burt Lancaster & John Ireland |
5.70 | 142.6 | 224.70 | 50 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 83.9 | |
| 15 | The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950) | Edward Arnold | 2.10 | 54.5 | 68.90 | 143 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 61.8 | |
| 17 | One Touch Of Venus (1948) | Ava Gardner | 1.80 | 57.6 | 57.60 | 146 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 59.7 | |
| 18 | Please Believe Me (1950) | Deborah Kerr | 1.70 | 43.1 | 57.40 | 159 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 48.8 | |
| 19 | My Son John (1952) | Helen Hayes & Van Heflin |
2.30 | 51.8 | 51.80 | 144 | 49 | 01 / 00 | 42.3 | |
| 20 | My Own True Love (1948) | Melvyn Douglas | 1.00 | 30.9 | 30.90 | 178 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 26.6 |
More Stats – Robert Walker Adjusted Worldwide Box Office
FYI. For years, my only knowledge of Robert Walker Sr., was the fact that Robert Walker Jr. played in an episode of Star Trek. Luckily, later in life I discovered Strangers on a Train, which is one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies.
saw 3, no 10s, no favorites. not so hidden gem: strangers on a train , an 8, easily the top reviewed.. 2 nines: 30 seconds over Tokyo, madame curie.
Hey bob cox….thanks for the mini-reviews of the three Robert Walker movies that you have seen. I slightly disagree with you about Strangers on a Train…I feel that is one of Hitch’s Top 5 movies….so it is a 10 in my book….but your 8 and my 10 is only a little different. Good Stuff.
Robert Walker was never ever on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Centers of the Hollywood Universe lists. I had 2 Robert Walkers in my database and the other is not his son but some actor who was in numerous B western and some silent movies in the 1910’s. There are people on the December 15, 2018 who have appeared with. All the actors were people who came back on when they switched to Wikipedia. Actually one of these actors he acted with was just in a movie at Christmas (everyone else has passed). These are the actors on the list he appeared with.
105 ROBERT MITCHUM Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
127 BURT LANCASTER Vengeance Valley (1951)
227 KEENAN WYNN See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
227 KEENAN WYNN Since You Went Away (1944)
227 KEENAN WYNN The Clock (1945)
227 KEENAN WYNN What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
232 ANGELA LANSBURY Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
242 AVA GARDNER One Touch of Venus (1948)
305 JOSEPH COTTEN Since You Went Away (1944)
379 JOHN IRELAND Vengeance Valley (1951)
656 CAMERON MITCHELL What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
672 WALTER PIDGEON Madame Curie (1943)
687 FRANK SINATRA Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
708 JOHN DEHNER Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
734 JAMES WHITMORE Please Believe Me (1950)
808 RICHARD JAECKEL My Son John (1952)
867 PETER LAWFORD Please Believe Me (1950)
877 LLOYD NOLAN Bataan (1943)
Bobby appeared with 15 Oscar winners.
BURT LANCASTER Vengeance Valley (1951)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Since You Went Away (1944)
DEAN JAGGER My Son John (1952)
DONNA REED See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
FRANK SINATRA Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
GREER GARSON Madame Curie (1943)
HATTIE MCDANIEL SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (1944)
HELEN HAYES My Son John (1952)
JENNIFER JONES Since You Went Away (1944)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Song of Love (1947)
KATHARINE HEPBURN The Sea of Grass (1947)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Since You Went Away (1944)
MELVYN DOUGLAS The Sea of Grass (1947)
SPENCER TRACY The Sea of Grass (1947)
SPENCER TRACY Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
THOMAS MITCHELL BATAAN (1943)
VAN HEFLIN My Son John (1952)
VAN HEFLIN Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Should be actors who appeared with him.
“When he was offered a meaty role as Burt Lancaster’s weak brother in Vengeance Valley, he demonstrated startling talent. His portrait of a psychotic murderer in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train remains one of the classic characterizations in film history.”
“His personal instability resulted in his death at the age of thirty-two, just when he was coming into his own as an actor”.
Our 4 Star Robert Walker Performances: – Rating The Movie Stars (1983)
1944’s Since You Went Away
1944’s Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1945’s The Clock
1951’s Vengeance Valley
1951’s Strangers on a Train
Always good to get Rating The Movie Stars thoughts on our website.
Most of Robert Walker’s movies were released in the 1940 before I started watching films so that the only two of his flicks that I’ve seen are The Sea of Grass and Strangers on a Train but the latter is undoubtedly THE ONE to see in Robert’s entire career [Hitch had Golden Holden as his 1st choice for Farley Granger’s role.]
Not only was Walker spellbinding as the psychopathic Bruno but it appears to have been one of the most influential crime thrillers ever made. The film is listed at No 32 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years/100 Thrills and its riveting plot has since been pirated to one extent or another for a number other movie productions.
For example in the last year I have seen two TV remakes that stuck reasonably faithfully to Hitch’s plot, one of them featuring male television actors who played out the one-sided perception of having agreed to kill each other’s perceived problem person, and the other version using females for the roles of two women at cross-purposes about murders that one thinks both have agreed to commit.
Jonathan Hale plays the father who is so hated by son Bruno in Strangers on a Train that the latter wants Farley Granger’s Guy Haines to kill him. Hale was a Canuck !!– and he reminds me of a sterner version of Robert Keith, Brian Keith’s dad. Also there is a certain irony in Walker and Hale playing father and son because Hale too died in tragic circumstances, committing suicide in 1966 aged 74. He was best known for playing Dagwood Bumstead’s boss in the 1940s Blondie film series. Ike Bruno in the movie Hale was somewhat of a real-life eccentric, for example turning vigilante by tormenting road hogs when out driving,
This new page is a welcome statistical profile of a talented actor who sadly died very prematurely at the height of his professional powers and [especially as it again contains some powerful stuff from The Man in his 8.28 post yesterday] is “Voted Up!”
Bruce, being a Trekkie I probably knew Walker Jr first and than discovered his father was a well known actor who died too young. Aged 32!
Looking at the chart I’ve only seen 3 of the 20 films, less than I thought. They are – Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Till the Clouds Roll By and my favorite Strangers on a Train.
Good to see that Hitchcock classic at the top of the critics chart though it didn’t do so well on the UMR chart.
I watched Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo again a few months ago, too much chat not enough war action. The last few minutes were spectacular, but too little too late. It was a huge hit in its time.
Nice work Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve…I was right there with you on Jr. His Charlie X was one of my favorite Star Trek (television) bad guys. Tally count: Flora 13, you and me a combined 8…..with you helping the least with 3. Strangers on a Train is one of my favorite Hitch movies……it is one I re-watch the most…right there with Rear Window, Notorious, Rear Window and Psycho. It has been awhile since seeing Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo…..so I do not remember the “too much chat not enough war action” part….I do remember Spencer Tracy’s role was pretty small. Good stuff as always.
I have seen 13 Robert Walker movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Since You Went Away costarring Walker’s ex-wife and mother of his children Jennifer Jones.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is The Sea of Grass.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is One Touch of Venus.
Interesting that Strangers on a Train is only number 10.
Favourite Robert Walker Movies:
Strangers on a Train
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Clock
Till The Clouds Roll By
Her Highness And the Bellboy
Since You Went Away
Madame Curie
The Sailor Takes A Wife
Song of Love
Other Robert Walker Movies I’ve Seen:
Bataan
See Here, Private Hargroves
The Beginning or the End
One Touch of Venus
Hey Flora…..ah…..back to the top of the Tally Heap for you. Tally count….Flora 13 or 65%, Cogerson 5 or 25% and 3 for Steve or 15%. Not sure I realized that Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker were married. Good stuff to log in my trivia brain storage. I was also surprised that Strangers on a Train was 10th….it got some great reviews, but was not a big box office hit and got almost ignored by the Oscar voters…..1 nomination (Best Cinematography)……so it’s great reviews got it into the Top 10 at least. Of your favorites…I have seen 3 of them…..I enjoyed Since You Went Away love Strangers on a Train. I thought Bataan was decent…..while One Touch of Venus was ok at best. Thanks for the visit, comment and tally count.