But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

Just three years later Walston would become one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio. Hand" because he had finally torn away from his Martian role. He mostly played small roles with stock companies where he not only starred in traveling shows but also worked at a movie theater selling tickets and cleaning the stage floors.

J. Singleton in The Sting (1973) high school teacher Mr.