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Walston was born on November 2, 1914, in Laurel, Mississippi, the second son and youngest of three children born to lumberjack Harry Norman Walston and Camilla "Mittie" (née Kimbrell) Walston. [2] [3] He had an older sister, Carrie, and an older brother, Earl.His family moved from Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana, around 1925. [citation needed]He started acting at an early age, beginning ...
Ray Walston. 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). He went on to associate with Margo Jones at the Houston Civic Theater for six years, then ...
Ray Walston. 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). He went on to associate with Margo Jones at the Houston Civic Theater for six years, then ...
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 ...
Jan 3, 2001 · Ray Walston, who won Tony Award for playing Devil opposite Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees, repeated his role in film version and went on to long career playing eccentric, oddly endearing characters ...
My Favorite Martian is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show stars Ray Walston as "Uncle Martin" (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. [1] The first two seasons, totaling 75 episodes, were in black and white, and the 32 episodes of the third and final season were filmed in color.
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," died Jan ...
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 in ...
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 86. The ...
Mar 8, 2001 · Actor Ray Walston, best known for his role as Uncle Martin on the 1960s sitcom My Favorite Martian, died at his home in Beverly Hills Monday, according to his agent. He was 86. Harry Gold, Walston ...
Jan 1, 2001 · 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).
Jan 1, 2001 · Ray Walston (December 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American stage, television and film actor best known as the title character on the 1960s situation comedy My Favorite Martian. In addition, he was also known for his role as high school teacher Mr. Hand in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Judge Henry Bone on the drama ...
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 1, 2013 · Ray Walston: More than a Martian. by Legacy Staff January 1, 2013. By Legacy Staff January 1, 2013. 0 Facebook Twitter Email. 3.2K. There was a time when actor Ray Walston worried that he would ...
Jan 2, 2001 · Ray Walston Dies At Age 86. January 2, 2001 / 1:13 PM EST / CBS. Award-winning character actor Ray Walston, who played the lovable extraterrestrial Uncle Martin on the 1960s TV sitcom My Favorite ...
Ray Walston was a successful actor, comedian and theatre artist who rose to fame by playing the much loved character of ‘Uncle Martin O’ Hara’ in the hit ‘CBS’ series ‘My Favorite Martian’ (1963-66). He also played the character of ‘Boothby’ in three ‘Star Trek’ episodes. His other successful movies include ‘The Sting ...
Ray Walston (Herman Raymond Walston; November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian. He was known for his role as Uncle Martin O'Hara in the television series My Favorite Martian. On January 1, 2001, Walston died at age 86 at his home in Beverly Hills, California 6 years after being diagnosed with lupus. He was ...
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Walston appeared in three Robert Altman directed films, as Poopdeck Pappy in the commercial disaster "Popeye" (1980), as the grandfather whose canceled insurance sparks the action in "O.C. & Stiggs" (1987), and as himself in "The Player" (1992). Last seen on episodic TV in "Fast Times" (CBS, 1985-86), reprising his role on this small screen ...
Live: South side of the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Actor Born Nov. 2, 1914 in New Orleans, LA. Died Jan. 1, 2001 in Beverly Hills, Calif. R ay Walston's 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 in television.
Jan 1, 2001 · Ray Walston’s association with director George Abbott began in 1949 when he appeared in the short-lived play Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys. It continued in 1953 with the very successful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Me and Juliet , and reached its zenith with Damn Yankees , in which Walston played the Devil (under the name of Applegate), whose vamp ...
Apr 28, 2016 · Ray Walston accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama and gives a pleased and appreciative speech, taking time to thank the cast and crew...
Ray Walston Ray Walston was an American stage, television and film actor best known as the title character on the 1960s situation comedy My Favorite Martian.In addition, he was also known for his role as high school teacher Mr. Hand in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences.