# Charlie X is gone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496 "2019-12-07T02:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/1 "2019-12-07T02:19:07Z")
[Robert Walker, Jr. has died at age 79.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/robert-walker-jr-star-trek-actor-dead-at-79/ar-BBXSlLt?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout) I didn’t know he was Jennifer “Towering Inferno” Jones’s son. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/2 "2019-12-07T02:32:57Z")
Wow. Agreed. I didn’t know that either. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/3 "2019-12-07T04:02:14Z")
Weird that he would die days after D.C. Fontana died too. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/4 "2019-12-07T04:16:59Z")
It always struck me how much he resembled his tragic father. ---
**Author:** ![bionic\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bionic\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bionic_man)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/5 "2019-12-07T05:31:45Z")
He had large part as ensign pulser while jack nicolson had small role. Jack nicolson had large role in easy rider while he had small role. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/6 "2019-12-07T06:03:44Z")
> [@bionic\_man](#): > > He had large part as ensign pulser while jack nicolson had small role. > Jack nicolson had large role in easy rider while he had small role. Jack Nicholson was in _ **Ensign Pulver** _? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/7 "2019-12-07T06:48:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Jack Nicholson was in _ **Ensign Pulver** _? :dubious: 😕 I’ll be damned! So he was: > **[Ensign Pulver (1964) ⭐ 5.9 | Comedy, Drama, War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058060/)** > > 1h 44m | Approved I saw this movie immediately after it came out, when I was nine years old. I loved it then, and I still do now. (At the time, I had never seen _ **Mr Roberts** _, so I didn’t appreciate the “sequel” aspect of the picture, but it didn’t really matter.) The original _ **McHale’s Navy** _ movie came out around the same time, so I was in Seventh Heaven! :o RIP, Bob/Charlie/Frank. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/8 "2019-12-07T07:16:08Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Weird that he would die days after D.C. Fontana died too. Hard on the heels of Sid Haig and Michael J Pollard, too. ☹ (Have I missed anybody?) Yep, they’re dropping like flies, all right. Damn getting old! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/9 "2019-12-07T08:45:52Z")
Wow - it’s kind of surprising to think that Robert Walker Jr. has passed away, considering he was that young space traveler “Charlie X”. But that was over fifty _ **years** _ ago!! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/10 "2019-12-07T14:04:10Z")
I,m sorry he Couldn’t stay, stay, stay. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-x-is-gone/844496/11 "2019-12-07T14:27:36Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I,m sorry he Couldn’t stay, stay, stay. Outstanding! Thread Winner!