Ray Walston’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Ray Walston has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Apartment.
Recurring themes

Arthur
1981
Comedy · Drama

License to Drive
1988
Comedy · Family

Coming to America
1988
Comedy · Romance

Sixteen Candles
1984
Comedy · Romance

Overboard
1987
Comedy · Romance

Just One of the Guys
1985
Comedy · Romance

Loverboy
1989
Comedy · Romance

Short Circuit 2
1988
Comedy · Family

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 fortune from a big-time mobster.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw

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 apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Dir. Gary Sinise · With John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston

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. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston

A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.
Dir. Amy Heckerling · With Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold

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 one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg

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 attend college.
Dir. Hal Needham · With Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire
Six years ago, the lovable intergalactic fugitive Gordon Shumway, best known as 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 at a top-secret military base where he finds allies who feel that ALF's existence should be announced to the world to ensure his safety... especially when they learn that the abrasive Colonel Milfoil wants ALF, and all Alien Life-Forms, destroyed.
Dir. Dick Lowry · With Paul Fusco, Miguel Ferrer, William O'Leary

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 she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.
Dir. Noel Black · With Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley
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 winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston
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 one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?
Dir. Bruce D. Clark · With Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston
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