Claim: Paul Walker was an actor.

Brian O'Conner -LRB- also known as Brian Earl Spilner -RRB- is a fictional character and one of the two main protagonists of The Fast and the Furious film series , the other being Dominic Toretto . He is initially portrayed as a police officer , who is later discharged from the LAPD for aiding and abetting Toretto in the first film . He is portrayed by Paul Walker and appears in all films in the series except The Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift and The Fate of the Furious although he is mentioned in the latter . After Walker 's death in a single vehicle accident on November 30 , 2013 , Universal Pictures decided to retire the character .