Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 series Picket Fences. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ray Walston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Applegate (segment "Damn Yankees") (archive footage)
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...

Early Bird Special
2001
as Pappy
A black comedy that was produced but immediately went into arbitration and was seemingly not released.

Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999
This documentary is featured on the Collector's Edition, High School Reunion Edition, and Awesome Special Edition DVDs for 'Fast Times at Ridgemont Hi...

Swing Vote
1999
as Justice Clore Cawley
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious...

My Favorite Martian
1999
as Armitan
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a P...
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
as Self
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter ...

Addams Family Reunion
1998
as Walter Adams
The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives. Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover that Grandpa and Grandma Addams have a disease th...

Tricks
1997
as Big Sam
Ex-showgirl and part-time hooker Rogers loses her legitimate job at a casino because of an abusive trick. She gets revenge when she is blacklisted and...

The Westing Game
1997
as Sandy McSouthers
A girl is angry about having to move to the city, but gets involved in a mystery when a rich neighbor is found dead. His will suggests that one of the...

House Arrest
1996
as Chief Rocco
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce...

Project: ALF
1996
as Motel Manager
Six years ago, the space alien ALF was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught up with him. Now he is being studied a...

Of Mice and Men
1992
as Candy
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.

The Player
1992
as Ray Walston
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Space Case
1992
as Bert
In the future, mental institutions are located on far-away planets. One such planet is the apex for an invasion of Earth by rodent-like aliens. It is ...

One Special Victory
1991
as Wurtz
A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He i...

Ralph S. Mouse
1991
as Matt
Ralph the mouse lives at the Mountain View Inn and loves his motorcycle. When the inn becomes overriden with mice and Ralph's friend Matt the bellboy ...

Popcorn
1991
as Dr. Mnesyne
While holding a horror film festival, a group of film students find themselves stalked by a madman who may have a sinister connection to a cult leader...

Runaway Ralph
1991
as Matt
Join Ralph on a string of adventures after he runs away from home at the Mountain View Inn, and makes a new friend.

Angel of Death
1990
as Prison Librarian
Escaped convict Gary Nicholson falls in love becomes obsessed with artist Laura Hendricks. He vows to protect her and her six-year-old son from any an...

Blood Salvage
1990
as Mr. Stone
Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. He then pro...

Ski Patrol
1990
as Pops
Pops isn't worried about the renewal of the lease for his ski lodge - the safety record is unblemished in spite of the crew of misfits who make up his...

Class Cruise
1989
as Cappy Connors
A few pupils from County High are selected to be the first to go on a study cruise, a privilege that formerly was reserved for members of private scho...

A Man of Passion
1989
as Basilio
A coming of age story of a young boy who is left to live with his grandfather, a famous painter. With his grandfather's fame comes a grand lifestyle w...

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back
1988
as Gramps Baxter
Eddie and his family have just inherited a spooky wreck of a house. What they do not know about the house is that it was built over an evil passage wa...

Blood Relations
1988
as Dr. Charles Macleod
A trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her future husband wants more than just a wife... Dying for ...

Red River
1988
as Groot
Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.

Crash Course
1988
as Principal Paulson
Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified...

O.C. and Stiggs
1987
as Grandpa 'Gramps' Ogilvie
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek rev...

From the Hip
1987
as 1st Judge
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a p...

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1986
as Matt
It looks like young Keith Gridley will have a lonely summer, until he meets a talking mouse named Ralph. Ralph takes an immediate liking to Keith's to...

Ask Max
1986
as Harmon
A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girlfriend, he sells the design of his latest invention-a jumping bike-to a major...

Rad
1986
as Burton Timmer
A BMX racer, who lives in a small town with his mother and sister, is faced with a tough decision, qualify for Helltrack or take his SATs in order to ...

Amos
1985
as Johnny Kent
Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here ...

Johnny Dangerously
1984
as Vendor
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

For Love or Money
1984
as Eppes
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.

The Jerk, Too
1984
as Diesel
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes...

Private School
1983
as Chauncey
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Chris...

This Girl for Hire
1983
as Abner Litto
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
as Mr. Hand
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S...

The Kid with the Broken Halo
1982
as Michael
Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one mor...

O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Walter Tatum
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, wat...
Pale Horse Pale Rider
1981
as Tap Dancer
Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

Galaxy of Terror
1981
as Kore
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as ...

Popeye
1980
as Poopdeck Pappy
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...

The Fall of the House of Usher
1979
as Thaddeus
After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitan...
Institute for Revenge
1979
as Frank Anders
A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseles...

The Girl Who Saved the World
1979
as Bob Richards
A news photographer (Susan Anton) hunts conspirators in Brazil.

The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
1977
as Senator Sturges
The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.

Silver Streak
1976
as Mr. Edgar Whiney
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no ...

The Sting
1973
as J.J. Singleton
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fort...

Paint Your Wagon
1969
as "Mad Jack" Duncan
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a ...

Caprice
1967
as Stuart Clancy
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.

Kiss Me, Stupid
1964
as Orville Jeremiah Spooner
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. Th...

Who's Minding the Store?
1963
as Mr. Quimby
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store ...

Wives and Lovers
1963
as Wylie Driberg
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford b...

Convicts 4
1962
as Iggy
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison ...

Portrait in Black
1960
as Cobb
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

The Apartment
1960
as Joe Dobisch
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apart...

Tall Story
1960
as Professor Leo Sullivan
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe ...

Say One for Me
1959
as Phil Stanley
Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishioners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly ...

Damn Yankees
1958
as Mr. Applegate
Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win th...

South Pacific
1958
as Luther Billis
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where sh...

Kiss Them for Me
1957
as Lt. (j.g.) Howard McCann
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer,...