John Charles Walker (born July 5, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer. His film Strand: Under the Dark Cloth won the Genie Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990, and he won a Gemini Award in 1992 for Leningradskaya: The Hand of Stalin. He was also a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for A Winter Tan, a collective film that he codirected and coproduced with Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs, Aerlyn Weissman and John Frizzell, and his film The Fairy Faith was a nominee for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 21st Genie Awards in 2001.