September 12: Happy Birthday Paul Walker

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Paul Walker (1973-2013) was born in Glendale, California, and grew up in the Southern California area. He began acting in commercials as a child and made his first TV guest appearances when he was about eleven.

In 2001, Walker made his first appearance in the role he is most famous for, as Brian O’Conner in The Fast and the Furious. He returned to the role in five additional films in the durable action franchise.

Walker made his feature film debut in 1986, in a low-budget horror comedy titled Monster in the Closet. That year, he also was cast as a regular on a short-lived CBS sitcom, Throb. He made a number of feature film and TV appearances over the next decade or so.

In the late 1990s, Walker, then in his mid-twenties, was still playing high-schoolers a lot of the time. He was Reese Witherspoon’s boyfriend in Pleasantville, and Freddie Prinze, Jr.’s rival for Rachael Leigh Cook’s affections in She’s All That. He finally escaped playing teenagers when he starred in The Fast and the Furious.

For the last decade-plus of his life, Walker found steady work starring in second-tier action/thriller films of all sorts. He starred in the treasure hunt thriller Into the Blue, the thriller The Death and Life of Bobby Z (based on a Don Winslow novel), and the heist movie Takers. He also starred in the disaster film Hours, and in Brick Mansions, a remake of the French thriller District 13.

The latter two films, along with Furious 7, were posthumous films for Walker. In November of 2013, he died in a fiery car crash along with his friend Roger Rodas, when Rodas lost control of his Porsche and they hit a lamp post. Walker was 40 at his death.

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Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!