Ray Walston's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Herman Ray Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for November 2 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1956 Best Actor in a Musical (Damn Yankees) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1956 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Damn Yankees as Mr. Applegate

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Ray Walston's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Ray Walston. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Ray Walston in the public record

He started his career on Broadway earning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1956). He appeared in the films South Pacific (1958), Damn Yankees (1958), The Apartment (1960), Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Paint Your Wagon (1969), The Sting (1973), Popeye (1980), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and Of Mice and Men (1992). Walston also starred as the title character on My Favorite Martian and as Glen Bateman in the miniseries The Stand (1994). For his role as Judge Henry Bone in Picket Fences he earned two Primetime Emmy Awards. Walston was born on November 2, 1914, in Laurel, Mississippi, the second son and youngest of three children born to lumberjack Harry Rex Walston and Camilla "Mittie" (née Kimbrell) Walston. He started acting at an early age, beginning his tenure as a spear carrier rounding out productions at many New Orleans theaters. 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.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ray Walston (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Ray Walston, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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.

Paired on shared wording: floors, worked. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 5♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. His family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he joined a repertory theater company under Margo Jones in 1938.
2. He stayed at the Houston Civic Theater six years, "averaging 12 roles a year." 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.
3. He then traveled to New York City, where he made his Broadway debut in a 1945 production of Maurice Evans's The G.I.
4. Hamlet.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Jessie Mueller — 2014 Best Actress in a Musical (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
• Kelli O'Hara — 2015 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
• Sutton Foster — 2002 Best Actress in a Musical (Thoroughly Modern Millie); 2011 Best Actress in a Musical (Anything Goes)
• Uta Hagen — 1951 Best Actress in a Play (The Country Girl); 1963 Best Actress in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

FAQ

What is Ray Walston's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. November 2 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Ray Walston's dates come from?

Birth date 1914-11-02 is the day-precision date on Ray Walston's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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