It all turned to shit for Marlon Brando Thirty-six years ago today

You can read all about Wally Cox, but in case you are lazy I plucked this from the text:

He became the roommate of Marlon Brando, who encouraged him to study acting with Stella Adler. Cox and Brando remained close friends for the rest of Cox's life, and Brando appeared unannounced at Cox's wake when he died. Brando is also reported to have kept Cox's ashes in his bedroom and conversed with them nightly.

(Even Cobina doesn't do that. Yet.) And then I found this. Thanks to that author for the photo of Wally. Here is a wee sample of Wally's work from his early fifties show Hiram Holiday: