Concentration For Actors. Required fields are marked *. Ray Walston spielte in ca. Martin gets amnesia from this concussion. But the rest of it, most of it, was a lot of fun. All rights reserved, Lee Strasberg On The Actors Studio Part 1, Lee Strasberg On The Actors Studio – Part 2, Lee Strasberg On The Actors Studio-Part 3, Lee Strasberg On The Actors Studio-Part 4, Lee Strasberg On The Actors Studio-Part 5, Method Acting Proedures / Get Started Acting, That won’t happen today. I’ve been in movies for a long time. When the family moved to Houston, Texas, Walston's father wanted to teach him the oil business, but Walston instead joined a traveling repertory company (selling tickets as well as acting). how was the overall experience of working on. And you know, from his attitude, the way he’s standing, the way he’s doing things, that he’s just broken hearted. And the woman who was in charge of makeup said no, that won’t work onscreen, it won’t look good onscreen. harry-AT-theatrgroup.com ( replace AT with @ ). I think it's happening. R: Yes, I do too. you, he will tell you, man-to-man. © 1996-2019 Part Two. He then traveled to New York City, where he made his Broadway debut in a 1945 production of Maurice Evans's The G.I. And what it did to my life. And if it’s bad, I’m gonna get accused for it. Ray Walston Interview: Barry Primus Interview : Stuart Stone Interview: Adrien Brody Interview: Melissa Mayo Bio: Harry Governick Bio: GUESTBOOK : PRESS HERE FOR MOBILE : Shelley Winters: An Interview By Harry Governick : Foreground: Alberta Murphy (the author's mother), Shelley Winters and Melissa Mayo (the author's wife). I love you, Ray. When stuck in a piece of junk, Walston still was very, very good. I’ve often wondered, when they’ve done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I’ve seen it, how they did that gun thing. Ray Walston Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 1; Barry Primus Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 3; Adrien Brody Interview; Stuart Stone Interview; Home » Concentration For Actors. Welcome To TheatrGROUP. Interview with Ray Walston pontificates on the world of theater acting. He later was hired for the role of Judge Henry Bone on Picket … My heartfelt condolencesto his family. Ray Walston Period. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Welcome To TheatrGROUP; Method Acting Procedures. But I would like to think that it’s the actor that makes the difference in these cases. TheatrGROUP Theatre Company, with Method Acting Workshop recommended by Shelley Winters, Martin Landau, Ray Walston & Barry Primus, interviews Ray Walston. But he’s slowly coming up to point it to his forehead. I don’t agree with you.”. An Interview with: Ray Walston By Harry Governick Artistic Director, TheatrGROUP. One thing that came up, that I haven’t gotten over yet, was the fact that when I began working on the role, I went and had my hair bleached white. Like they tell the story of the famous Yiddish actor, Jacob Ben-Ami, who had a scene where he was to life the gun to his forehead and kill himself. R: Yes, I do too. It so happened that that particular moment, you can see some white stubble, and it just looks terrific. The crime situation is just impossible. THE ACTORS STUDIO "and so on..." Another TheatrGROUP Original Psychiatrist's Wake from "And So On..." at TheatrGROUP. What you will find here is not copied from books. Ray Walston Interview: Barry Primus Interview : Stuart Stone Interview: Adrien Brody Interview: Melissa Mayo Bio: Harry Governick Bio: GUESTBOOK : WHAT IS METHOD ACTING? Ray Walston, Actor: Popeye. Ray Walston, Melissa Mayo and Harry Governick standing outside the Actors Studio-West in Los Angeles, California. Interview, Porträt, Filmografie, Bilder und Videos zum Star Ray Walston | cinema.de Your email address will not be published. Well, that particular morning, when we first got to the set, we were all hustled down in the area where we were shooting. That won’t happen. I remember one day walking out of my chair, lookin’ at myself in the mirror, I said, ” Okay, the way I look now, this is Ray Walston playing any role he ever played in any movie that was ever produced. That is to say… there was, as a result of the Great Depression, a coming together of American people. I think it’s happening. humorous, tough as nails  and passionate in everything he does in life, giving You would not get mugged. It wasn’t quite there for me. So that that can become, in a tragic moment, as it was with the dog… it can become, to the onlooker, something entirely different. I had a three or four day growth. Artistic Director, TheatrGROUP. Additional Ray Walston stuff: The Walston Wiki Everything you wanted to know about our favorite thespian. / Street Date March 31, 2014 / Available at Amazon.de EUR 14,99 Starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitch Ryan, Jim Davis, G.D. Spradlin, Michael Conrad, Bo Hopkins, John McLiam, Allyn Ann McLerie, Matt Clark, Billy Green Bush, Richard Farnsworth. Instead of getting into makeup first, we had to get down here [on set] because the climate is so right, exactly what we want. My career would have turned out differently. H: Two moments in the film will haunt my memory forever, and both moments were yours. When Candy offers George his life savings as collateral for a piece of George’s dream to buy land to live on, I saw the desperation of a person who knows that the end might not be that far away, and does not want to face it alone. In 1984, Walston played a judge on an episode of Night Court. I think it can happen, I think it will, I think even worse things will happen. Ray Walston was a scene-stealing actor who was able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. MFM wiki All the details on America's craziest space age sitcom. H: So it was a physical pain, an affective memory of a physical pain, that was translated by me as an emotional pain. generously of himself to all he meets. I love going on location, and the location was nice. Ray Walston on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more... HBO Max is looking to play The Westing Game, by giving MGM/UA Television a script-to-series order for an adaptation of the Newbery Medal-winning mystery novel. From New Years Day 2001, here is a Headline News story about the death of actor Ray Walston, who starred in the 60s sitcom "My Favorite Martian." If he doesn't like you, he will tell you, man-to-man. He has a little bit of the devil in him, You would not go home and find your door broken in, and your house robbed. R: Yes, I do too. Ray Walston Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 1; Barry Primus Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 3; Adrien Brody Interview; Stuart Stone Interview; Welcome To TheatrGROUP Technical Director Joe Tuttle with Artistic Director Harry Governick. By Harry Governick ” They were so taken by what he did that they were overcome. Ray Walston, as “Candy” in Gary Sinese’s version of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” The Interview October, 1992. You see, I had a natural growth, but what they would do is darken it every day, every morning when I would get made up. * 2. H: Ray,. There’s a fog, and we wanna get it before it lifts, we wanna do the scene, no makeup, just come do it. Ray Walston Interview-Part 1; Ray Walston Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 1; Barry Primus Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 3; Adrien Brody Interview; Stuart Stone Interview; Cast of "12 Angry Jurors" at TheatrGROUP Presented By TheatrGROUP. I think it can happen, I think it will, I think even worse things will happen. Many people in the audience began to say, “No, no, no! The gun, and the shot involved. TheatrGROUP Method Acting Procedures – When performing in a good film or television show, Walston was very, very good. Harry Governick If he does like Three years later, Walston became one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio. It just did not happen. Sadly, the comic felt the need to give interviews boasting about what a straight stud he was. This is the way he looks.”. That is to say whoever’s got a job they wanna give Ray Walston. I kept saying, “I don’t understand what you’re saying. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor. Ray Walston started his acting career as a spear carrier with a local stock company. I met him in the fall of 1963 when he went to Washington, D.C., as part of a CBS promotional tour. That was one of the few things that I got embroiled in. Ray Walston is a compact bundle of kinetic energy, who lives life from moment-to-moment. Ray Walston Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 1; Barry Primus Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 3; Adrien Brody Interview; Stuart Stone Interview; Welcome To TheatrGROUP Technical Director Joe Tuttle with Artistic Director Harry Governick. And she said, “Well, I am responsible for what goes up on that screen, and I’m telling you that we’re not gonna do this.” I got into a fight with her, saying that I’m also responsible for what goes up on the screen, even more so than you are, because nobody’s gonna think about your goddam makeup, they’re gonna think about my performance. Part Two . life, Ray Walston is every bit as interesting as the characters he has made so At the end of the movie, when George has to shoot Lenny, I missed feeling the degree of emotion I felt with your scene and the dog. Now what he actually did, when he picked up that gun, and he started slowly lifting that gun, he was actually [sensorally] backing into a cold shower…backing into it. Welcome To TheatrGROUP. He has a little bit of the devil in him, part rogue, strong minded, warm hearted, uncommonly common, street-wise, enormously humorous, tough as nails and passionate in everything he does in life, giving generously of himself to all he meets. In another scene, the men who share the bunk house tell you it’s time to shoot your dog, because its “old and stinks, and would be better off out to pasture”. November 1914 in New Orleans + 1 Januar 2001 in Los Angeles. But, H: Ray,. Ray Walston Interview-Part 1; Ray Walston Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 1; Barry Primus Interview-Part 2; Barry Primus Interview-Part 3; Adrien Brody Interview; Stuart Stone Interview; Method Acting Proedures / Get Started Acting. Absolutely makes the man look entirely different. That won’t happen today. EMAIL: This page will lead interested individuals to descriptions of various techniques and procedures of so-called "method" acting. Interview Guests for this episode consist of Ray Walston, himself, which adds an extra memorable touch to this episode, with his first-hand accounts of the stories behind his roles on stage, screen and television. Of pain. And the “feeling” of backing into this cold shower, as it hit his back… he was nearing the top, with that gun. But Of Mice And Men , if looked at as a piece of Americana, then there’s great joy in it, despite the story line. Too much has happened, people have gone too far. Monte Walsh All-Region Blu-ray Explosive Media GmbH / Alive (Germany) 1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. R: That’s exactly right. R: I would like to think that it is the actor who is playing the part, it is the actor who is controlling the words written by Steinbeck, and in this case Horton Foote, who adapted it for the movie, but practically used paragraphs right out of the book, and just placed them right in the screenplay. Starring: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston Years: 1963 to 1966 Network: CBS. He was one of a kind,and the world will miss him dearly. I become familiar with the series as a kid in the 70’s through daily re-runs. 150 Filmen und Serien mit. Ray Walston Wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama For PICKET FENCES | Emmy Archive 1995 - YouTube Ray Walston accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama … I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else. Of a severe pain. Now in my scene, with the dog, a gun was involved, but not in the way that it was in the last scene, so that the actor/director had to contend with… “How will I do this?” he [Sinese] would say, “in order not to go too far with an audience?” It’s a very very very delicate moment. Ray Walston, Melissa Mayo and Harry Governick standing outside the Actors Studio-West I see that same desperation when I visit homes for the aged. Left:  The premise to the sci-fi/sitcom is that a Martian (Ray Walston) crash lands on Earth and is found by reporter Tim O’ Hara (Bill Bixby) of the Los Angeles Sun. By Harry Governick Artistic Director, TheatrGROUP. He did not fire it, of course. It should have blown the top off the theatre. Artistic Director, TheatrGROUP. I don’t understand it. Entdecke dieses Bild von Patrick Dempsey sowie 240 Bilder auf FILMSTARTS.de. Directed by Leslie Goodwins. With Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Michael Fox. Ray is joined here by daughter, Kate Walston, Granddaughters, Sarah and Emma Walston, Actresses Mitzi Gaynor, Ann Marshall and Gwen Verdon, Actors Fyvush Finker and Kevin … I got them all pissed off about that. And I wanted a white stubble on the beard. I think it can happen, I think it will, I think even worse things will happen. Hamlet. Herman Raymond "Ray" Walston (November 2, 1914-January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian, best known as the title character on the 1960's American television comedy series My Favorite Martian. And as he lifted the gun off the table, he picked it up, slowly started up to his head: slowly now, he’s not even up to his shoulder yet. R: But I think the difference is the gun involved. Absolutely broken hearted. Character actor Ray Walston, the lovable extraterrestrial in the 1960s sitcom "My Favorite Martian," died Jan. 1 in Beverly Hills. Your argument against losing your old pal was so touching I cried. in Los Angeles, California. H: If you could do anything different in your life, would you change anything? In how was the overall experience of working on Of Mice And Men ? part rogue, strong minded, warm hearted, uncommonly common, street-wise, enormously TheatrGROUP's "Frostbite" Jenna Conner & Melissa Mayo Entranced Channeling Admiral Cole. And you see him out feeding the chickens. R: First of all, I would have paid attention to my career when I was working in New York, and I got off [into films]… that’s the time I should have been laying plans for the future of my own production company doing my own thing, doing the plays I wanted to do, Shakespearean plays. His presence was always uplifting, his spirit generous to all. Ray Walston Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Ray Walston photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! The truth of your art illuminated this painful subject onscreen for me, reminding me not to forget the aged. However, there’s one scene where it’s the day after Candy’s dog has been shot. In a 1999 interview, Walston said that he was happy and relieved that when he walked down the street, young fans shouted at him "Mr. Hand" because he had finally torn away from his Martian role. I agree with you that it should have been, uh… well, the most memorable moment of the picture, really. You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they’d been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head. Walston was popular with Margo Jones' team of actors before he traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent three years with the Cleveland Play House. I’ve learned over the years that, like everything else in life, when you make a picture you might as well expect certain things to come up, that you’re gonna have to solve. I had a problem here and there with which I had to contend. This is what I used. Presents An Interview with: Ray Walston . My Favorite Martian originally ran on CBS from 1963 to 1966, logging 107 episodes. What a difference a couple of decades make, especially if you’re talking about the late Ray Walston and his Classic TV sci-fi sitcom My Favorite Martian. Unter anderem spielte er den Glen Bateman in der Stephen King Serie "The Stand". famous in his work as an actor. January 2, 2001: It is with great sorrow that I mourn the loss of my wonderful friend. He [ Sinese] was there, at the end, he knew what he had to do, you know, with the gun, and the shooting, and so forth. H: It should have at least equalled your scene, which for me was the most memorable moment in the film. By R: The overall experience was a good one. Directed by Jack Arnold and Daniel Haller. Your email address will not be published. If you bear in mind that the actor (who is also the director) is faced with something entirely different as George than I was with my part as Candy. This Warner Archive Blu-ray highlights a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, resulting in a stunning look at a film that makes terrific use of gritty shots and shadows. Martin and Tim are on their way to interview Professor Eugene Downey, the foremost expert on rocket fuel - Martin thinks the professor can assist in getting him back to Mars - when Martin is hit on the head with a monkey wrench. I think it’s happening. Welcome To TheatrGROUP; Method Acting Procedures. Now whether or not the… result, in terms of the human mind… will… the same thing will not happen now, I don’t think, as happened in 1930. Blast off to the 25th century with Buck Rogers, one of the most popular sci-fi heroes of all time! R: Oh yeah. In life, Ray Walston is every bit as interesting as the characters he has made so famous in his work as an actor. Concentration For Actors. R: Oh, absolutely. The crime situation is just impossible. I’ve watched it on stage, but I don’t remember it. 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