Honours[edit]

In 1970, 1974 and 1998, Walker was named Critic of the Year at the annual British Press awards, also being commended in 1985. He was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1981, and won the Golden Eagle Award in the Philippines for services to international cinema in 1982.^[2]

Personal life and death[edit]

Walker died in July 2003, aged 73. He listed his recreations in Who's Who as "ski-ing and persecuting smokers". He lived at 1 Marlborough, a block of flats at 38-40 Maida Vale in the area of the same name.^[2]^[10]

Double Takes - notes and afterthoughts on the movies 1956-1976, Elm Tree Books 1977

Stanley Kubrick - Director, Norton 1999

Audrey - her real story, St. Martin's Press 1995

– a celebration, New York: Applause Theatre Books, 1998

Bette Davis

Dietrich, New York: Harper and Row 1984

The Celluloid Sacrifice – aspects of sex in the movies, London: Joseph 1966

Elizabeth - The Life of Elizabeth Taylor, Weidenfeld 1991

Garbo - A portrait, Macmillan 1980

Fatal Charm – The Life of , St. Martin's Press 1993

Rex Harrison

- the ultimate star, Harper and Row 1983

Joan Crawford

It's only a movie, Ingrid – encounters on and off the screen, London, Headline 1988

- the authorized biography, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1981

Peter Sellers

Vivien - The life of Vivien Leigh, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1987

, Stein and Day 1976

Rudolph Valentino

Shattered Silents - how the talkies came to stay, London: Elm Tree Books 1978, New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1980

directs, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1972

Stanley Kubrick

Stardom - the Hollywood phenomenon, Stein and Day 1970

No Bells on Sunday: the Journals of (editor), London: Pavilion Books, 1984; New York, Harper & Row 1984