I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on 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.