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  • My Favourite Martian
  • My Favourite Martian review by from SANDERSTEAD
    Rated - 3.0 stars 14 August 2004
    ...Marvellous to witness the great Ray Walston in one of his last roles before his death in 1999, aged 86. He of course was the ultimate Martian in the pre-Star Trek series o...   Read customer review
  • Kiss Me, Stupid
  • Kiss Me, Stupid review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Kiss Me, Great! 29 May 2006
    ...e, for various reasons, the star pulled out. The decision left the plum role to Ray Walston, thereby allowing that actor his finest hour on screen. Blessed by marriage to ...   Read customer review

Ray Walston - filmography


  • My Favourite Martian on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Christopher Lloyd,  Elizabeth Hurley
    Director: Donald Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The 1960s television series is updated for the 1990s in this computer-effects heavy family effort. Television reporter Tim O' Hara (Daniels) thinks he has the story of the century when he stumbles across a real-life Martian (Lloyd). While trying to gain evidence of the landing, however, the alien ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 487 members
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  • Stephen King's The Stand (2 discs) on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Gary Sinise,  Molly Ringwald,  Jamey Sheridan
    Director: Mick Garris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Stephen King's own adaptation of his best-selling allegorical novel is the ultimate saga of good vs. evil. When a deadly man-made virus destroys 99 per cent of the Earth's population, those left alive are haunted by visions and dreams luring them into two camps--good or evil--and eventually to a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,496 members
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  • Of Mice and Men on DVD (1992)
    Starring: John Malkovich,  Gary Sinise,  Casey Siemaszko
    Director: Gary Sinise
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Actor Gary Sinise directs this excellent adaptation of John Steinbeck's tragic tale about two migrant farmworkers in Depression-era California. Lennie (John Malkovich), a sweet-natured, mentally-retarded man who doesn't realize his own crushing strength, and George (Sinise), his companion and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3,965 members
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  • Popcorn on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Jill Schoelen,  Tom Villard,  Ray Walston
    Director: Mark Herrier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Maggie (Jill Schoelen) has been suffering recently from terrifying and realistic dreams. When film students hold a "horror-thon" to raise money for their department, they discover a film from the 1960s called THE POSSESSOR which mirrors the events in Maggie's nightmares. The director of THE ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 163 members
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  • From The Hip (1987)
    Starring: Judd Nelson,  Elizabeth Perkins,  John Hurt
    Director: Bob Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A 25-year-old lawyer's wacky and anything-goes approach to criminal defence turns him into an overnight media sensation. Convinced of the innocence of his client, this young lawyer would stand on his head to obtain an acquittal.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 34 members
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  • Galaxy of Terror on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Erin Moran,  Edward Albert,  Ray Walston
    Director: Bruce D. Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Two astronauts sent to the farthest regions of space on a rescue mission land on the dark and barren planet of Morganthus. On the planet, they encounter a foul, hell-born terror born out of their own worst fears, and must overcome these fears to entertain any chance of returning.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 405 members
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  • Silver Streak on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Jill Clayburgh,  Richard Pryor,  Gene Wilder
    Director: Arthur Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Humorous tale set aboard a train bound from Los Angeles to Detroit. Gene Wilder plays an editor who becomes involved in art forgery and a murder plot, as well as having a romantic escapade with a young sexy female...all during one train ride.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,406 member
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  • The Sting on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Robert Redford,  Robert Shaw
    Director: George Roy Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 12,342 members
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  • Paint Your Wagon on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Lee Marvin,  Jean Seberg,  Ray Walston
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin break out of their traditional screen personas in this offbeat western musical comedy with a memorable Lerner and Loewe score. Pardner (Eastwood) and Ben Rumson (Marvin) are two buddies who share everything, including their wife Elizabeth (Jean Seberg), whom they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,361 members
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  • Caprice (1967)
    Starring: Doris Day,  Richard Harris,  Ray Walston
    Director: Frank Tashlin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Screen idol Doris Day tackles industrial espionage alongside Richard Harris in Caprice, the hilarious comedy caper directed by Frank Tashlin. Doris Day plays Patricia Fowler, a spy hired to work undercover at a cosmetics company to discover a new formula that the firm is planning to market. But it ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Kiss Me, Stupid on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Dean Martin,  Kim Novak,  Ray Walston
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Wilder's smutty low comedy, Dean Martin has little trouble easing into the role of Dino, a womanizing pop singer with a yen for the grape. En route to Hollywood after a Las Vegas gig, he stops in a small Nevada town, where his arrival is considered a piece of extraordinary fortune by amateur ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 287 members
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  • Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
    Starring: Jerry Lewis,  Jill St. John,  Ray Walston
    Director: Frank Tashlin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
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  • The Apartment on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  Shirley MacLaine,  Fred MacMurray
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 12,238 members
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  • South Pacific on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Rossano Brazzi,  Mitzi Gaynor,  John Kerr
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,089 members
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  • South Pacific - Blu-ray (1958)
    Starring: Rossano Brazzi,  Mitzi Gaynor,  John Kerr
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A Rodgers and Hammerstein classic revolving around a forbidden love affair between a native girl and a young American sailor on a Pacific island during World War II. SOUTH PACIFIC's blend of war, love, and racial bigotry is based on the novel TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by James A. Michener. The ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 9 members
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Ray Walston facts

5 most recent films

South Pacific - Carnegie Hall Concert - 2.0 stars
My Favourite Martian - 3.0 stars
Stephen King's The Stand - 3.5 stars
Of Mice and Men - 3.5 stars
Popcorn - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Sting - 4.0 stars
The Apartment - 3.5 stars
Of Mice and Men - 3.5 stars
Paint Your Wagon - 3.5 stars
Silver Streak - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Who's Minding the Store? - 3 stars
Silver Spoons - The Complete First Season - 2.0 stars
South Pacific - Carnegie Hall Concert - 2.0 stars
From The Hip - 3.0 stars
Caprice - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Juanita Hall - 6 times - show films
France Nuyen - 6 times - show films
Mitzi Gaynor - 5 times - show films
Rossano Brazzi - 5 times - show films
John Kerr - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joshua Logan - 7 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 3 times - show films
Mick Garris - 3 times - show films
Gary Sinise - 2 times - show films
Amy Heckerling - 2 times - show films