Robert Walden
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Robert Walden (born Robert Wolkowitz on September 25, 1943 in New York, New York) is an American television and motion picture actor.
Walden's career began in 1970, and for the first several years he often played young doctors. His breakthrough role was in the television series Lou Grant, which won him 3 Emmy Award nominations (in 1979, 1980 and 1981) for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Walden has played several historical characters, including Donald Segretti in the 1976 film All the President's Men, and J. Robert Oppenheimer in the 1980 TV movie Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb. He also made a cameo appearance as a sound engineer in the 1994 film Radioland Murders.
Walden is a distinguished teacher of acting at New York New School University. In August, 2006 he appeared in the Herbert Bergoff Playwrights Foundation production of Arthur Miller's "'The American Clock'" under the direction of Austin Pendleton.