Interview: Rudolph Walker, OBE

The Eastenders star, Rudolf Walker talks to Promota’s Beauty & Arts Editor Clare Eluka about his success on the screen. CE: What bought you to London in 1960? RW: I came in September of 1960 to be exact. Just coming up to my 21 birthday. I was a very young man who had never left the island of Trinidad apart from sailing over to Tobago. It was an extraordinary feeling because I arrived in Britain and I said to myself, I am here to face whatever happens. There was no panic, I had this confidence. Nothing fazed me, not even the cold weather coming in the autumn. Somebody would say “Rudolph, It’s snowing outside” and I would look and say “Oh, Yes it is” and thought nothing of it.