This union later ended, and in 2016, he married Evangeline Vincent. He then married fellow Trinidadian Dounne Alexander in 1998. Walker was married to Lorna Ross in 1968, but they divorced after having two children. He had been planning to go to the United States, where he had connections, but actor Errol John - who had already migrated to Britain but was in Trinidad doing a play - convinced him to go to the UK, where the training was considered to be superior. With the aim of furthering his career he left the island at the age of 20 in 1960.
He began acting as an eight-year-old in primary school, going on to join Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop as its youngest member. Rudolph Walker was born on 28 September 1939 in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2009, the Rudolph Walker Foundation was established to provide inspirational role models and positive activities that empower young people to overcome the obstacles and build positive futures. Rudolph Malcolm Walker CBE (born 28 September 1939) is a Trinidadian-British actor, best known for his sitcom roles as Bill Reynolds in Love Thy Neighbour (1972–76), Constable Frank Gladstone in The Thin Blue Line (1995–96) and since 2001 as Patrick Trueman in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
