Career
He appeared in 60 films between 1931 and 1950. Born J. Douglas Dunder in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Walton began his acting career in the theatres of Chicago and New York City. Tall, blond and elegant, Walton played many aristocratic, intellectual or sophisticated English or European men in films such as The Count of Monte Cristo in 1934.
, in which Walton memorably played the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in the film"s prologue.
The Clark Gable version of. And director John Ford"s starring Katharine Hepburn, in which Walton gave his best performance as the effeminate and cowardly "Lord Darnley".
Walton was also directed by Ford in 1934"s The Lost Patrol, Bad Lands in 1939, and, starring John Wayne. In 1939, Walton returned to New York to appear on Broadway in the comedy Billy Draws a Horse.
In the 1940s, Walton"s parts were secondary characters or even uncredited roles in B-movies, or sometimes in high profile films such as King Vidor"s, starring Spencer Tracy, and
One sizable role was "Percival Priceless" in. His final film was. Walton retired in 1950 and died eleven years later, in 1961, from a heart attack, at age 51.