- Alexander Walker was born on March 22, 1930 in Portadown, Northern Ireland, UK. He was a writer, known for Omnibus (1967), Burton and Taylor (2013) and Garbo (1969). He died on July 15, 2003 in London, England, UK.
- 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".
- 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
- An interview for Alfred Hitchcock was like a living autopsy.
- I have been told by people, that when I write that a film is wonderful, they are not going to see it and vice versa.
- In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
- I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
- I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to world cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
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