Happy Birthday: Ray Walston (1914–2001)

Ray Walston (1914–2001)

Born: December 2, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Died: January 1, 2001 (age 86) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Ruth Calvert (3 November 1943 – 1 January 2001) (his death) (1 child)

(his 1995 Emmy Award acceptance speech) I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage.

(on being labeled a character actor) I’m an actor and that’s it — period. Producers and studios have thrown many things at me over the years: comedy, tragedy, drama, drawing-room comedy. I’ve managed to keep my head above water in most of these genres, but I don’t put myself in any one category like “comic actor” or “musical-comedy” actor.

My Favorite Martian (1963) ended after three years, because the people at the top killed the goose that laid the golden egg. They didn’t know how to keep the goose alive.

SOUTH PACIFIC 1958 dir. Joshua Logan Starring: Rossano Brazzi Mitzi Gaynor The Sting 1973 dir. George Roy Hill starring Newman Robert Redford

The Apartment 1960 dir. Billy Wilder starring Jack Lemon MacLaine

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