David Wayne
Born: 1914-01-30 in Traverse City - Michigan - USA
Died: 1995-02-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
David Wayne (January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years. Wayne was born Wayne James McMeekan in Traverse City, Michigan, the son of Helen Matilda (née Mason) and John David McMeekan. He grew up in Bloomingdale, Michigan. Wayne's first major Broadway role was Og the leprechaun in Finian's Rainbow, for which he won the Theatre World Award and the first ever Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. While appearing in the play, he and co-star Albert Sharpe were recruited by producer David O. Selznick to play Irish characters in the film Portrait of Jennie (1948). It was in 1948 as well that Wayne became one of those fortunate 50 applicants (out of approximately 700) granted membership in New York's newly formed Actors Studio. He was awarded a second Tony for Best Actor in a Play for The Teahouse of the August Moon and was nominated as Best Actor in a Musical for The Happy Time. He originated the role of Ensign Pulver in the classic stage comedy Mister Roberts and also appeared in Say, Darling, After the Fall, and Incident at Vichy.
Filmography
2005
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
1987
- Poker Alice as Amos
- The Survivalist as Dub Daniels
1986
- Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen as Narrator (voice)
1985
- The Golden Girls as Big Daddy
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Cyrus Leffingwell
- Crazy like a Fox as Jennings Hyde
- Finder of Lost Loves as Professor Wheeler
- Finders Keepers as Stapleton
1982
- St. Elsewhere as George Wyler
- Newhart as Mr. Pittman
- Matt Houston
1979
- House Calls as Amos Weatherby
- The Prize Fighter as Pop Morgan
- An American Christmas Carol as Merrivale
- The Girls in the Office as Ben Nayfack
1978
- Dallas as Digger Barnes
- Loose Change as Dr. Moe Sinden
- The Gift of Love as O'Henry and Narrator
- Lassie: The New Beginning as Amos
- Murder at the Mardi Gras as Mickey Mills
1977
1976
- Delvecchio as Jack Henderson
- Once an Eagle as Col. Terwilliger
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- Barney Miller as E.J. Heiss
- Switch as Dancer
- Ellery Queen as Inspector Richard Queen
- The Apple Dumpling Gang as T.R. Clydesdale
- It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
- Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects as Insp. Richard Queen
- Tubby the Tuba as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
1974
- The Front Page as Roy Bensinger
- Huckleberry Finn as The Duke
- The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One as Maynard Richards
- Return of the Big Cat as Grandpa Jubal
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
- Faraday and Company as Branigan
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco as Wally Sensibaugh
- Banacek as Walter Tyson
- The Brian Keith Show
- The Catcher as Armand Faber
1971
- The Andromeda Strain as Dr. Charles Dutton
- The Good Life as Charles Dutton
- Mooch Goes to Hollywood as David Wayne (uncredited)
- The African Elephant as Narrator
1970
- Night Gallery as Dr. Mill
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant as Colonel Rufus Ryder
- With These Hands as Narrator
1969
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Teddy Brewster
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Monsieur Bordeaux
- The Name of the Game as Emory Ward
1966
- Batman as The Mad Hatter
- CBS Playhouse as George Spears
1963
- Burke's Law as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as George Holloway
- Channing as Dr. James Crown
- Marilyn as archive footage
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Andrew Anderson
- The Virginian as Martin Reese
- Sam Benedict
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Big Gamble as Samuel Brennan
- Anatomy of an Accident as John Avery
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Walter Bedeker
- NBC Sunday Showcase as The Devil
- The Last Angry Man as Woodrow Thrasher
1958
- Naked City as Herbert Konish
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Suspicion as James Mennick
- DuPont Show of the Month as Willis Reynolds
- The Three Faces of Eve as Ralph White
- The Sad Sack as Corporal Larry Dolan
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee / Performer
- The Naked Hills as Tracy Powell
1955
- Gunsmoke as Judge Warfield
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sam Jacoby
- The Alcoa Hour as Homer Bolton
- Norby as Preston Norby
- The Tender Trap as Joe McCall
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Grandpa Jubal
- Hell and High Water as Tugboat Walker
1953
- How to Marry a Millionaire as Freddie Denmark
- General Electric Theater as David Vincent
- The I Don't Care Girl as Ed McCoy
- Down Among the Sheltering Palms as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
- Tonight We Sing as Sol Hurok
1952
- Omnibus
- O. Henry's Full House as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
- We're Not Married! as Jeff Norris
- With a Song in My Heart as Don Ross
- Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie as Ben Halper
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sakini
- M as Martin W. Harrow
- As Young as You Feel as Joe Elliott
- Up Front as Joe
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Stella as Carl Granger
- My Blue Heaven as Walter Pringle
- The Reformer and the Redhead as Arthur Maxwell
1949
- Adam's Rib as Kip Lurie
1948
- Studio One as Jasper Hornby
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Portrait of Jennie as Gus O'Toole
1944
- Ditch and Live as Pilot of Ditching B-17