If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays.

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.