Surprised the first time I saw the film version of “Marty” by the actor playing Ralph, the title character’s best friend. It was Frank Sutton, best known as Sergeant Carter on “Gomer Pyle, USMC.” Sutton was born and raised in Tennessee, but fit in very well as a New Yorker. The film was Sutton’s big break, but he isn’t listed in the credits.
Another familiar TV face in the cast is Jerry Paris, the neighbor on the Dick Van Dyke Show, who became a prolific TV director.
And actor Don Gordon as the guy at the dance hall who tries to pay 5 bucks to take his blind date off his hands and Nancy Marchand (best known as Livia Soprano, Tony Sopranos evil mother in The Sopranos) as Clara, the girl Marty meets thanks to the guy trying to dump her.