American actor (1940–2019) who played Charlie Evans, the lonely teenager with terrifying mental powers, in Charlie X, one of the earliest episodes of the original series.
Robert Walker Jr. was an American actor, born in 1940, the son of the film stars Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones. His films include Ensign Pulver and Easy Rider.
In Star Trek he guest stars in Charlie X, the second episode broadcast, in September 1966. He plays Charlie Evans, a seventeen-year-old who grew up alone on the planet Thasus after a crash and was given extraordinary powers by its inhabitants so that he could survive. Aboard the Enterprise his clumsy longing for affection, especially from Janice Rand, turns dangerous whenever he is refused. Walker was in his mid-twenties when he played the part.
He continued to act in television for many years and died in 2019.