Eric Walker’s acting career began in 1976 when he appeared in a Jack In The Box commercial at the age of 6. He was chosen along with the rest of his tackle football team to appear in two spots, one as football players, and the other as soccer players. Eric enjoyed acting in the two commercials so much that he pleaded with his father Gene Walker for 4 years to get him into acting. Finally, his father said yes, and with the help of his older sister Teressa (Walker) Espinoza, Eric was able to officially begin an acting career in 1980. Eric's sister Teressa went to school with the actress who appeared in Pipi Longstocking movies. It was through her that Eric was able to acquire the phone numbers of several agents. The first agent who interviewed Eric, ended up signing him immediately on the spot.

However, Eric's career got off to a rocky start, so he began studying acting in 1981, at the request of his agent Beverly Hect with veteran acting coach Virgil Frye (father of Soleil Moon Frye, known from television's Punky Brewster and Sabrina The Teenage Witch).
Eric studied the craft of acting with Virgil Frye more than 8 years along side classmates Courtney Gains (Children of the Corn, Colors, The Burbs, Memphis Belle, Sweet Home Alabama), Noah Hathaway and Barrett Oliver (from The Neverending Story), and Sean Penn (I Am Sam), as well as Corey Feldman (Goonies, Lost Boys).

After only 1 year of training with Virgil, Eric started getting small acting parts. He Co-Starred with Dyan Cannon and Barry Newman in Having it All, Directed By Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samauri). In addition, Eric had a guest appearance on the hit television series, Webster, Starrring Emmanuel Lewis. During this time Eric also appeared in 10 different television commercials for various toy companies including Carolina Pride Hot Dogs.

Then, finally after nearly 4 years of hard work and trying to make it as an actor, Eric got his big break when he was cast to star in George Lucas's Ewok Movie. Initially it was scheduled to be an hour after school special for CBS. But it would soon become something more significant as ABC entered into, and then won a bidding war for the television rights against CBS. It then became a special two-hour movie event. It premiered on Thanksgiving Night November 25th, 1984 and was renamed The Ewok Adventure. The movie had a budget of 2 million which was considered high by 1984 production standards, and even went 1.5 million over budget. George Lucas released it overseas as a major motion picture by 20th Century Fox, under the name Caravan of Courage. The movie was a big ratings success for ABC with some 65 million viewers. It is believed to be one of the most recorded VHS movies of all time.

The movie spawned a low rated controversial sequel in which critics and Star Wars Fans blasted Lucas for killing off Eric's character Mace Towani and the rest of the family except for the little sister Cindel Towani, played by Aubree Miller.

Both movies are now again available as a double feature for the first time on DVD under the name Star Wars: Ewok Adventures, Caravan of Courage and Ewoks The Battle for Endor.

After the working for George Lucas, Eric had a break in his career because of an over zealous agent who unwisely repeatedly turned down numerous starring parts and auditions. After a few years Eric’s contract with his agent at the time ran out, and he was then able to switch agents. Shortly after he soon became a working actor again. Some of his new roles included his co-starring with Mickey Rooney in the Disney Movie "Little Spies", and he also won a small supporting role as Robert Downey Jr's brother in the film "Less Then Zero".

While still acting in movies, Eric attended the Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts alongside such well-known actors as Anthony Anderson (Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, Kangaroo Jack, Hustle & Flow) and Jenna Elfman (Darma and Greg). Eric grew into a fully-fledged actor seasoned with not just instinct but the kind of effective acting techniques used in communicating the entire spectrum of human emotion.

In addition, he has since continued to work on movie projects such as Miracle Alley and a number of other smaller-scale short films. He was severely bitten by the ‘behind the scenes film making bug’ thanks to George Lucas and Producer Thomas G. Smith, who rented them a video camera during the production of The Ewok Adventure film. This allowed Eric and actor Warwick Davis (Willow, Harry Potter) to navigate around the production set filming behind the scenes material at ILM, Skywalker Ranch and even the Lucasfilm Ltd. Offices.

In addition to this Eric continued his acting in movies like the 1990s comedy hit And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird. In the short film Miracle Alley, written by G.K. Holland. Eric plays the part of George Peabody III, a thoroughly unpleasant and nasty character. Miracle Alley was well received by the news media due to its humanitarian element. All of the film production costs (including the cast and crew) were donated and all of the proceeds from the movie were donated to Volunteers of America to help create a broader awareness of the homeless worldwide. CNN, E! Entertainment Channel, and Entertainment Tonight covered this miracle in the making. And now plans are in the works for a feature length version of this short film for a Christmas 2007 release called: The Legend of Miracle Alley (www.miraclealley.com).

Today

Eric is also writing a book called 'Growing Up On Sky Walker Ranch’, In collaboration with Marco Froemter noted Star Wars Official Magazine of Germany Writer (who currently has writing assignments for Lucasfilm’s IndianaJones.Com and Star Wars.Com), and G. K. Holland (Star Walker author and creator). The book will chronicle the positive experiences and life affirming lessons Eric learned while working with George Lucas and Lucasfilm Ltd. It will contain a lot information never heard or released about the inner workings of the Star Wars Universe. The book’s title is meant more as an allegory and not to be taken literally.

Ever becoming more and more attentive and fascinated with the Hollywood movie making process, Eric began working behind the camera as a Director and Editor on recent projects such as Melashenko Family: God's Leading Through The Generations. Eric wrote, edited, and directed the Melashenko project which won a special Golden Halo Award from the Southern California Motion Picture Council for having positive moral family values.

Eric has gathered a wealth of knowledge and hands on experience in film production. So today he is busy Directing, Editing, and Writing a number of various independent production and commercial projects. He is also writing several book and movie projects of his own, including a special documentary.

Upcoming Projects – Star Walker

And then there is the huge new exciting multi-media project called Star Walker. The project has a web presence at www.thestarwalkers.com. Below is an excerpt from an upcoming two part interview by noted European Journalist Marco Froemter: “What is Star Walker? Is it just another new movie series following the fame and success of classics like Star Trek or Star Wars? Or will it be just another series of books like Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings? Will it just jump on the band wagon along with successful series like Stargate? Audiences have seen so many releases that a new project can hardly top the already seen releases. Yet, Star Walker promises to be a brand new franchise in so many different ways. Star Walker promises to be an action-packed adventure spectacle with lots of state-of-the-art special effects, exciting martial arts, explosive action, and intriguing story lines.”

Eric’s long time friend, business associate, and martial arts teacher writer G. K. Holland is currently busy writing the first of a series of up to 20 books based on the Star Walker story, including the first screenplay based on the first of these books. One of the lead characters of the first Star Walker movie is loosely based on Eric Walker’s life. The first book is due to be finished soon and a publisher will soon be secured. It’s interesting to note that Holland's writing of Star Walker initially began as a wedding present for Eric Walker who married his then-girlfriend Nhu Tran in South Vietnam in August, 2002.

Please check back on Eric Walker.Net for future updates on all the projects he is currently working on. Eric looks forward to what the future holds in a galaxy of opportunity that is right within his reach.