Ray WalstonFilmography

Touched by an Angel: The Face on the Bar Room Floor

Synopsis: Season Seven of Touched by an Angel begins as overage playboy Everett Clay (Richard Chamberlain is disinherited by his millionaire father Benjamin (Ray Walston). Inspired by the story of the Prodigal Son, Benjamin intends to make Everett miserable enough to change his ways and learn something Read More

My Favorite Martian

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: My Favorite Martian stars Jeff Daniels as Tim O'Hara, once a newspaper man and now a struggling television producer in Santa Barbara. Tim has a crush on vapid news reporter Brace Channing (Elizabeth Hurley) while overlooking his feelings for Lizzie (Daryl Hannah), a technician working at the Read More

Ally McBeal: Car Wash

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Star Trek: Voyager: The Fight

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Swing Vote

Actors: Andy Garcia, Harry Belafonte, Robert Prosky, Ray Walston, James Whitmore

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama set in the near future, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently overturned the Roe vs. Wade decision and thrown the issue of abortion rights back to the individual states. Alabama has subsequently outlawed abortion on demand and has prosecuted Virginia Mapes (Lisa Gay Hamilton) Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: In the Flesh

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Addams Family Reunion

Actors: Tim Curry, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV sequel to the popular films, the Addams set out to find some of their weirder relatives. Tim Curry and Darryl Hannah star. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Get a Clue!

Actors: Cliff De Young, Ashley Peldon, Ray Walston, Sally Kirkland, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed children's book The Westing Game, the movie version of this tale, Get a Clue!, draws young viewers into the strange mysteries encountered by 13-year-old "Turtle" Wexler. After moving into a new town, Turtle learns the house next door is the notoriously haunted Westin Read More

Tricks

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Tyne Daly, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Too old to work as a showgirl in Reno, Nevada, Jackie, a middle-aged beauty (Mimi Rogers), is reduced to prostitution to support herself and her ailing son. She also has a part-time job at a casino, until an abusive client from her other profession beats her senseless and gets her fired. Not only Read More

House Arrest

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Grover Reindorf (Kyle Howard) is a kid with a problem, which is how to keep his parents from divorcing. He hits on a solution that makes sense to him. Why not lock them up in the basement, and keep them there until they reconcile? He and his younger sister Stacey (Amy Sakasitz) agree to do just Read More

Project: ALF

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Ray Walston, Martin Sheen, Jensen Daggett

Synopsis: This made-for-television comedy picks up where the popular alien TV-series ALF left off. Captured by the military on his way back home, ALF is forced to undergo experiments at the hands of the unsympathetic Col. Gilbert Milfoil (Martin Sheen). Two military officers take pity on poor ALF and decide Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, simple-minded Lennie. Set during the Depression era, the film opens as George and Lennie are running from a woman with a torn dress, who has sent a Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The First Duty

Synopsis: On the eve of his graduation from Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher is involved in a fatal in-flight accident. Though he knows the truth behind the tragedy, Wesley is reluctant to tell all for fear of hurting his friends in the Academy. As his fate is determined during a hearing, the crew of the Read More

Picket Fences: Season 01

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Ray Walston

One Special Victory

Actors: John Larroquette, Kathy Baker, Joe Pantoliano, Christine Estabrook, Phil Hartman

Synopsis: When a self-involved real estate agent is given fifty hours of community service to do by a judge, he becomes the coach for a basketball team of developmentally challenged adults. In trying to teach them, he learns. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Pink Lightning

Actors: Sarah Buxton, Martha Byrne, Jennifer Blanc, Jennifer Guthrie, Rainbow Harvest

Synopsis: Pink Lightning is a 1991 Fox Network TV movie set in the California of 1962. Five typically blinkered 60s ladies come of age in a male-dominated society. As sarcastically pointed out by TV critics in 1991, the five girls are conveniently compartmentalized into stereotypes: Nice Girl, Beautiful Read More

Ski Patrol

Actors: Roger Rose, Corby Timbrook, T.K. Carter, Leslie Jordan, George Lopez, Martin Mull

Synopsis: In this slapstick comedy, a group of faithful ski patrol members set out to save Snowy Peaks ski resort from the evil plans of greedy businessman Maris (Martin Mull). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Angel of Death

Actors: Brian Bonsall, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: Gregory Harrison is the Angel of Death in this made-for-TV suspenser. In love with artist Jane Seymour, escaped convict Harrison vows to protect Seymour and her six-year-old son Brian Bonsall from any and all antagonists. Trouble is, Harrison is apt to love Seymour and her boy to death. If you Read More

Popcorn

Actors: Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Derek Rydall, Malcom Danare

Synopsis: In this off-beat horror outing, a band of film students decide to scare up some cash by holding a film festival celebrating horror films from the '50s. Its all great fun until they discover that the projectionist is a homicidal maniac. Gory violence ensues as audience members begin dying in Read More

Blood Salvage

Actors: Danny Nelson, Lori Birdsong, John Saxon, Ray Walston, Evander Holyfield

Synopsis: An oddball trip to Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory by way of Peter Weir's The Cars That Ate Paris, this presents an inbred family of redneck psychopaths who orchestrate highway accidents, disassemble the vehicles for parts, then do the same to the drivers. The patriarch of this cabal of Read More

Fine Gold

Actors: Jane Badler, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Fine Gold was originally made for cable television, where it first aired July 15, 1990. Ted Wass stars as a man falsely accused of embezzlement. In the months that follow, he loses his job, his family, and most of his reason for living. The second half of the film concerns itself with revenge and Read More

A Man of Passion

Actors: Anthony Quinn, R.J. Williams, Maud Adams, Ray Walston, Victoria Vera

Synopsis: Spanish director José Antonio de la Loma helmed this 1988 coming-of-age drama starring Anthony Quinn as an aging retired artist. When Quinn's ambitious daughter leaves her home to seek fame and fortune, she sends her young son to live with his grandfather, who resides on a Mediterranean island. Read More

I Know My First Name Is Steven

Actors: Luke Edwards, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the two-part TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven tells the tragic story of Steven Stayner. At age seven, Steven was kidnapped by two men who held him captive in a tiny shed for seven years. One of the men, a habitual child abuser named Kenneth Parnell, sexually assaulted Read More

Class Cruise

Actors: McLean Stevenson, Ray Walston

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Class Cruise is Animal House for the MENSA crowd. As a reward for their scholastic brilliance, a group of high school kids is rewarded with a 14-week ocean cruise. Not surprisingly, the snootier kids spend most of the trip fending off the idiocies of the "slobs." There's also Read More

Paramedics

Actors: George Newbern, Christopher McDonald, Javier Grajeda, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Elaine Wilkes

Synopsis: Uptown (George Newbern) and Mad Mike (Christopher McDonald) are paramedic partners assigned to the tough South Central section of the city by their irate boss Captain Prescott (John P. Ryan). The duo uncovers a fiendish conspiracy that deals in harvesting internal organs from unwilling donors. Read More

Crash Course

Synopsis: A group of mischievous teen-agers get a notoriously difficult instructor that becomes their summer driving school teacher. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Red River

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Gregory Harrison

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Gunsmoke star James Arness was the protégé of movie luminary John Wayne, it is altogether fitting and proper that Arness step into Wayne's role in the 1988 TV-movie remake of the film classic Red River (1948). The remake follows the original slavishly, at least during the first half. Read More

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Synopsis: Live-action and stop-motion animation combine to adapt Beverly Cleary's novel about a young boy's friendship with a talking rodent. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Blood Relations

Actors: Jan Rubes, Lydie Denier, Kevin Hicks, Lynne Adams, Sam Malkin

Synopsis: Dr. Wells (Jan Rubes) is joined by his fiancee three years after the death of his wife in a scheme to murder an old man for his inheritance money. She soon changes her mind when she discovers that brain transplants take place in the basement laboratory in the family mansion. None of the characters Read More

The Mouse and the Motorcycle: Special Edition

Synopsis: This animated adventure tells of Ralph the talking and motorcycle riding mouse. Episodes include "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" and "Runaway Ralph." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Runaway Ralph

Synopsis: Based on Beverly Cleary's novel The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph is an ABC Kidtime special about a mouse named Ralph who leaves home on his motorcycle once his parents ground him. Eventually, Ralph ends up at a summer camp, where he has several adventures. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back

Actors: Jason Presson, Ray Walston, Avery Schreiber, Patty McCormack, Julianne McNamara-Zeile

Synopsis: The sequel to Saturday the 14th, this horror-comedy traces the adventures of nice-guy teen Eddie Baxter (Jason Presson) as he saves the world from the brink of supernatural destruction. After moving into a decrepit, inherited mansion with his family -- a collection of oddballs who eat nothing but Read More

O.C. and Stiggs

Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Ray Walston, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry Read More

From the Hip

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin, Dan Monahan

Synopsis: Director Bob Clark, whose previous cinematic endeavors ran the gamut from Porky's to A Christmas Story, called the shots on From the Hip. Fresh out of law school, Robin Weathers (Judd Nelson) is hired by a law firm not known for its ethics. Weathers' first client is a man who, up to trial time Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Way to Dusty Death

Synopsis: Cornell Wilde guest stars as Duncan Barnett, the ruthless founder-CEO of Barnett Industries. Gathering his board of directors (and their wives and loved ones) to his lavish New York estage, Barnett seems poised to name his successor. Instead, he is killed in an accident--or, at least, it looks Read More

Rad

Actors: Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire, Ray Walston, Alfie Wise

Synopsis: This film's for the BMX bike racers of the world. A small town is out to raise funds by building a BMX racetrack and sponsoring a major race. They sponsor their own small-town hero Cru (Bill Allen) who's up against the big-monied sponsor's champion Bart Taylor (played by Olympic Read More

Ask Max

Synopsis: The 60-minute comedy Ask Max stars Jeff B. Cohen in the title role. A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girl friend, he sells the design of his latest invention-a jumping bike-to a major toy company. The upshot of this is that Max is appointed a company Read More

Amos

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Kirk Douglas

Synopsis: Stars Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Montgomery manage to rise above the melodramatic trappings of Amos. Douglas plays the title character, a fiercely independent senior-citizen baseball coach, forced to live in a retirement home after an auto accident. During his stay, Amos conducts a battle of wills Read More

Johnny Dangerously

Actors: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of Johnny Dangerously (Byron Thames as the young Johnny, Michael Keaton as the older), a devoted son to his ailing mother (Maureen Stapleton), so ill that she needs money for several Read More

That's Singing: The Best of Broadway

Synopsis: This performance video is a tribute to the American musical theatre. Includes a collection of memorable songs from various Broadway shows. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Jerk, Too

Synopsis: Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love. This version was designed as a pilot for a TV series that never Read More

For Love or Money

Synopsis: Joanna Piper (Suzanne Pleshette) and Mike Coyne (Gil Gerard) are far more concerned with money than with love. To that end, they sign up as contestants for a TV giveaway show. The catch: in order to claim the grand prize of one million dollars, Joanna and Mike must pretend to be hopelessly Read More

Night Court: Harry on Trial

Synopsis: Thanks to the machinations of his nemesis Judge Willard (Jason Bernard), Harry (Harry Anderson) is summoned before a judicial review board. Led by the decidedly off-base Judge Landis (Ray Walton) the board must decide if Harry's bizarre and flippant courtroom behavior constitutes sufficient Read More

Private School

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Michael Zorek, Fran Ryan

Synopsis: Three of the hallmarks of education in America -- nudity, teenage sex, and big, destructive gags -- are on plentiful display in this teen comedy. Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim (Matthew Modine), who attends an academy for boys Read More

This Girl for Hire

Synopsis: In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Actors: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the teen sex comedy), and kick-started the careers of many future stars. The center of this ensemble film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton. She Read More

O'Hara's Wife

Actors: Ed Asner, Mariette Hartley, Jodie Foster, Perry Lang, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: This ghostly made-for-television romance tells the story of a struggling widower who finds that life becomes easier once his beloved comes back from the grave to assist him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fall of the House of Usher

Actors: Martin Landau

Synopsis: A maddened Roderick Usher (Martin Landau) and his dying sister Madeline (Dimitra Arliss) are the only surviving members of the ancient race of the Ushers in this rendition of the classic Edgar Allen Poe tale. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Kid with the Broken Halo

Actors: Gary Coleman

Synopsis: Gary Coleman stars as a teen-age angel who must return to Earth to help out three troubled families in order to earn his wings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Galaxy of Terror

Actors: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens, Zalman King

Synopsis: Also known as Planet of Horrors, this film follows a group of astronauts as they travel into space to retrieve the survivors of a spaceship crash. When they arrive on the planet, the crew runs into some hostile aliens who attempt to gorily wipe them out. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Popeye

Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The King Is Dead

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A slick sports promoter (Ray Walston) convinces Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) that he has genuine talent as a wrestler. It is all part of a scheme to bilk the citizens of Walnut Grove by staging a rigged wrestling match. Things get really sticky when, consumed by gambling fever, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor Read More

Institute for Revenge

Actors: John Hillerman

Synopsis: Big-time movie director Kenneth Annakin called the shots in this TV pilot film. "Institute for Revenge" is the nickname for a computer known as IFR 7000 (voice by John Hillerman). The computer is employed by a large foundation dedicated to righting wrongs, albeit nonviolently. Sam Groom, Lauren Hutton Read More

The Girl Who Saved the World

Synopsis: The "Cliff Hangers" television series provides this film featuring a photojournalist who searches for the men who killed her reporter brother just before he revealed a conspiracy on an international level. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

Actors: Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston, Rip Torn, Jack Carter, Phil Foster

Synopsis: When a sex scandal threatens to blow the top off Washington politics, celebrated madame and advice columnist Xaviera Hollander (Joey Heatherton) is drawn into the fray. The hooker at the center of the controversy is a friend, and when the girl conveniently disappears, Xaviera is outraged. Read More

Silver Streak

Actors: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning, Hilly tells George that her boss is on the verge of exposing a group of vicious art forgers. Later that Read More

The Sting

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones Read More

Mission: Impossible: TOD-5

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Peter Haskell, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The title of this Mission:Impossible episode refers to a potentially devastating new biological weapon. Traitorous government scientist Paul Morse (Ross Elliot) intends to sell TOD-5 to Gordon Holt (Peter Haskell), special representative of a terrorist organization known as the Alpha Group. With Read More

Ironside: Ring of Prayer

Synopsis: Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) wants to find out why a terminally ill convict named Walter Butler (Ray Walston) has been denied parole. The trail of clues leads to Madame Jabez (Barbara Rush), a woman who claims to have supernatural powers. Many strange and inexplicable occurences follow as Read More

Paint Your Wagon

Actors: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, Harve Presnell

Synopsis: After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With Loewe's permission, Lerner wrote five additional tunes for the film with Andre Previn. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) is the grizzled prospector trying his Read More

Caprice

Actors: Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edward Mulhare

Synopsis: Doris Day plays a swinging, mod-attired agent of espionage (yes, that Doris Day) in this caper comedy directed by Frank Tashlin. Patricia Fowler (Day) is an industrial spy who is hired to work undercover at a cosmetics company. While posing as a low-level employee, she is to get the goods on a new Read More

My Favorite Martian: Season 03

Actors: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston, Pamela Britton

Synopsis: The third and final season of My Favorite Martian found the series switching from black-and-white to color, and also making a few adjustments in its format. The basic premise remains the same: a misplaced martian (Ray Walston) has crash-landed on Earth and has moved in with young newspaper Read More

My Favorite Martian: Season 02

Actors: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston, Pamela Britton

Synopsis: As My Favorite Martian enters its second season, young newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby) has become quite accustomed to having a martian as his house guest. He has also come to take for granted the fact that his "Uncle Martin" (Ray Walston) has a super-genius I.Q., is able to travel Read More

My Favorite Martian: Night Life of Uncle Martin

Synopsis: The Martian "defense mechanism" for exhaustion is to split into two different personalities: one for work, the other for play. Thus, as the worn-out Martin (Ray Walston) sleeps, his swinging alter ego Pierre (also Ray Walston) materializes, and immediately heads out on the town to make whoopee. Read More

Kiss Me, Stupid!

Actors: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond

Synopsis: The Catholic League of Decency gave Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid! a "condemned" rating. The Moral Majority charged the picture with debauchery and movie theaters across the nation discontinued its run. The bed-trick comedy had America's panties tied in a knot; one could not imagine a story so Read More

My Favorite Martian: Season 01

Actors: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston, Pamela Britton

Synopsis: Filmed in black-and-white, season one of My Favorite Martian begins literally at the beginning, when Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby), young reporter for the "Los Angeles Sun," slows down his snazzy sports car long enough to investigate a strange object that has crashed on the side of the highway. Out pops Read More

Who's Minding the Store?

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver, Ray Walston

Synopsis: This frantic comedy finds Raymond (Jerry Lewis) working in a department store. Mr. Tuttle (John McGiver) is the watchful owner, whose outspoken wife Phoebe (Agnes Moorehead) makes no secret about her feelings that Raymond is an incompetent boob. Barbara (Jill St. John) is the pretty elevator Read More

My Favorite Martian [TV Series]

Actors: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Anne O. Marshall, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: Making its CBS network debut on September 29, 1963, in the same Sunday night time slot previously held down by Dennis the Menace, My Favorite Martian starred Ray Walston as the title character, an affable, hyper-intelligent and extremely resourceful space alien whose one-man flying saucer Read More

Wives and Lovers

Actors: Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters, Martha Hyer, Ray Walston

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while his wife Bertie (Janet Leigh) earns an income for both of them. Their lives change dramatically when Bill's first novel becomes a best-seller. Bill persuades Bertie to quit Read More

Convicts Four

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks at the crucial years between 1931 and 1949 in the convict's life. That period begins when Resko is convicted of killing a store owner and is sentenced to life in prison. Read More

Shirley Temple Storybook Collection: The Little Mermaid

Actors: Shirley Temple, Nina Foch, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Harron, Ray Walston

The Apartment

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams, David Lewis

Synopsis: Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts. He runs into trouble when he finds himself sharing a Read More

Tall Story

Actors: Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Marc Connelly, Ray Walston, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a young basketball star proposes to a tall and intelligent coed while attending Custer College. She accepts, and he begins to worry about how they will get the money they need to survive. He then finds himself tempted to take a gambler's bribe and throw the game during an Read More

Portrait in Black

Actors: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart

Synopsis: Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her spouse's personal physician, into injecting poison into the ailing industrialist. This crime melodrama chronicles the chain of events that leads to the murderous lovers' Read More

Say One for Me

Actors: Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: This musical comedy takes an off-beat religious turn as it tells the tale of a show-biz priest (Bing Crosby) who runs a Broadway theater for spiritually kindred show-folk. His problems begins when a vivacious but troubled chorine (Debbie Reynolds) shows up with a sad story about her ailing father Read More

Damn Yankees

Actors: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin

Synopsis: Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish gent named Applegate (Ray Walston). Boyd is Read More

South Pacific

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall

Synopsis: Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic that everyone hoped it would be, principally because of some curious creative choices made by the production personnel. Adapted from James A. Michener Read More

Kiss Them for Me

Actors: Cary Grant, Suzy Parker, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Luther Davis' racy wartime comedy Kiss Them for Me was expurgated a bit for the 1957 film version. Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden portray three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Eluding their ulcerated public relations officer (Werner Klemperer Read More

Hallmark Hall of Fame: There Shall Be No Night

Actors: Charles Boyer, Katharine Cornell, Ray Walston, Bradford Dillman, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: First staged on Broadway in 1940 with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and Montgomery Clift in the starring roles, Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play There Shall Be No Night was originally set in Finland in the years before the outbreak of WW2. For this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, the Read More

Dateline

Actors: John Daly, H.V. Kaltenborn, Sid Caesar, Ben Grauer, Martha Raye

State of the Union

Studio One: Little Man, Big World