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Herman Raymond Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian. Walston started his career on Broadway earning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1956).
Actor: Popeye. Ray Walston started his acting career as a spear carrier with a local stock company. When the family moved to Houston, Texas, Walston's father wanted to teach him the oil business, but Walston instead joined a traveling repertory company (selling tickets as well as acting).
Tony- and Emmy-winning character actor Ray Walston, who achieved success on the Broadway stage in the mid-1950s as the devil in “Damn Yankees” and later found popularity on the small screen as...
Ray Walston was born on December 2, 1914 in Laurel, Mississippi USA and began his acting career in 1939, receiving his first big break when cast as the reporter in the Ben Hecht - Charles MacArthur classic "The Front Page".
Jan 2, 2001 · Award-winning character actor Ray Walston, who played the lovable extraterrestrial Uncle Martin on the 1960s TV sitcom My Favorite Martian and a host of cantankerous coots in later years, has...
Jan 1, 2013 · Walston died at 86 after a career that lasted more than 40 years. We hope he’ll excuse the many fans who still remember him as a Martian – most of us remember him for that...
Ray Walston, the actor who made a charming devil in Damn Yankees, a scowling seabee in South Pacific (on stage and in the film version) and a quirky alien in TV's...
My Favorite Martian: Created by John L. Greene. With Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Alan Hewitt. An exoanthropologist from the planet Mars, stranded on Earth, is rescued by Tim O'Hara, a newspaper reporter who introduces the Martian to his friends and the authorities as his uncle Martin.
Jan 3, 2001 · Ray Walston, whose three-year turn as a sitcom Martian gave him a public profile but only scratched the surface of the talent he showed in a seven-decade acting career on stage and screen and...
Jan 3, 2001 · BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Ray Walston, who played the lovable extraterrestrial Uncle Martin on the 1960s TV sitcom "My Favorite Martian" and the devil in "Damn Yankees," has died. He was...