- Was film critic for the London Evening Standard from 1960 until his death in 2003.
- [September 2004] His final book "Icons in the Fire: The Decline and Fall of almost Everybody in the British Film Industry" was published in the UK by Orion.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1968
- His top ten films of all time were: Citizen Kane (1941), Wild Strawberries (1957), The 400 Blows (1959), Some Like It Hot (1959), L'Avventura (1960), La Dolce Vita (1960), The Leopard (1963), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Taxi Driver (1976). Other favourites included The Rules of the Game (1939), Breathless (1960), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Persona (1966), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Godfather (1972), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
- Was an avid collector of modern art paintings and left his collection to the British Museum in his will.
- Director Ken Russell hit him over the head with a rolled up copy of his own review on live television in 1971.
- Walker, an outspoken right-winger politically, was notorious for his vociferous support of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. (He was given a medal for "services to the cinema" at the Manila Film Festival in the 1980s.) When the Marcos regime was finally overthrown and democracy established by the premiership of Mrs. Corey Aquino, Walker went so far as to describe this as "a tragedy".
- He died in his sleep in the early hours of the morning, of a brain hemorrhage. He had given no hint of illness, although he was due to undergo tests in a few days' time.
- He was a fanatical opponent of smoking, even going so far as to add an anti-smoking message to his answer-phone recording, not only asking callers to leave name, number and a short message in the usual manner, but adding the admonition, "Remember - smoking is slow suicide." Once, at a press show, he belligerently accosted another critic, who was smoking a pipe, and demanded he move to another part of the auditorium. The other critic politely pointed out that he was sitting in the smoking section, that were plenty of seats in the non-smoking section on the other side of the cinema and that, anyway, he had arrived first, some minutes ahead of Walker. Walker responded by by pulling the pipe out of his mouth, hurling to the ground and stamping on it until it shattered.
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