David Wayne

Actor Jan 30 (died age 81) Traverse City - Michigan - USA 1944–2005 (61 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

The Andromeda Strain

Dr. Charles Dutton

Film

The Front Page

Roy Bensinger

Film

How to Marry a Millionaire

Freddie Denmark

Film

Adam's Rib

Kip Lurie

Film

The Three Faces of Eve

Ralph White

Film

Portrait of Jennie

Gus O'Toole

Film

The Apple Dumpling Gang

T.R. Clydesdale

Film

Ellery Queen

Inspector Richard Queen

Filmography

Acting (112)

Movies (54)

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)

Poker Alice

as Amos

The Survivalist

as Dub Daniels

Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen

1986

as Narrator (voice)

Finders Keepers

as Stapleton

The Prize Fighter

as Pop Morgan

An American Christmas Carol

1979

as Merrivale

6.2

The Girls in the Office

1979

as Ben Nayfack

2.0

The Gift of Love

1978

as O'Henry and Narrator

6.0

Lassie: The New Beginning

1978

as Amos

4.8

Murder at the Mardi Gras

1978

as Mickey Mills

In the Glitter Palace

1977

as Nate Redstone

2.7

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975

as T.R. Clydesdale

6.6

Tubby the Tuba

1975

as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

1975

as Insp. Richard Queen

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!

1975

as Dr. Abner Sedgwick

The Front Page

as Roy Bensinger

Huckleberry Finn

as The Duke

Return of the Big Cat

1974

as Grandpa Jubal

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

1974

as Maynard Richards

The Catcher

1972

as Armand Faber

6.0

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1971

as David Wayne (uncredited)

4.3

The African Elephant

1971

as Narrator

The Andromeda Strain

1971

as Dr. Charles Dutton

7.0

With These Hands

1970

as Narrator

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

1970

as Colonel Rufus Ryder

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Teddy Brewster

Marilyn

as archive footage

The Big Gamble

as Samuel Brennan

Anatomy of an Accident

1961

as John Avery

The Last Angry Man

1959

as Woodrow Thrasher

6.9

The Sad Sack

1957

as Corporal Larry Dolan

5.6

The Three Faces of Eve

as Ralph White

The Naked Hills

as Tracy Powell

The Tender Trap

as Joe McCall

Hell and High Water

as Tugboat Walker

How to Marry a Millionaire

as Freddie Denmark

Tonight We Sing

as Sol Hurok

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

1953

as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt

5.0

The I Don't Care Girl

as Ed McCoy

We're Not Married!

as Jeff Norris

With a Song in My Heart

1952

as Don Ross

5.9

O. Henry's Full House

1952

as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

6.8

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

as Ben Halper

As Young as You Feel

as Joe Elliott

as Martin W. Harrow

Up Front

as Joe

My Blue Heaven

1950

as Walter Pringle

7.0

The Reformer and the Redhead

1950

as Arthur Maxwell

6.3

Stella

1950

as Carl Granger

Adam's Rib

as Kip Lurie

Portrait of Jennie

as Gus O'Toole

Ditch and Live

as Pilot of Ditching B-17

Television (58)

The Golden Girls

as Big Daddy

Murder, She Wrote

as Cyrus Leffingwell

Crazy like a Fox

as Jennings Hyde

Finder of Lost Loves

as Professor Wheeler

St. Elsewhere

as George Wyler

Newhart

as Mr. Pittman

Matt Houston

House Calls

as Amos Weatherby

Dallas

as Willard 'Digger' Barnes

6.8

Loose Change

1978

as Dr. Moe Sinden

Eight Is Enough

Hunter

Big Hawaii

Delvecchio

as Jack Henderson

Once an Eagle

as Col. Terwilliger

Barney Miller

as E.J. Heiss

Ellery Queen

as Inspector Richard Queen

Switch

as Dancer

Barnaby Jones

as Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'

6.9

The Streets of San Francisco

as Wally Sensibaugh

Banacek

as Walter Tyson

The Brian Keith Show

The Good Life

as Charles Dutton

Night Gallery

as Dr. Mill

Hawaii Five-O

as Monsieur Bordeaux

The Name of the Game

as Emory Ward

Ironside

as Dr. Ian Rice

Mannix

Batman

as The Mad Hatter

CBS Playhouse

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

as George Holloway

5.7

Burke's Law

1963

as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin

6.0

Channing

1963

as Dr. James Crown

7.0

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Andrew Anderson

The Virginian

as Martin Reese

Sam Benedict

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Route 66

Outlaws

The Twilight Zone

as Walter Bedeker

NBC Sunday Showcase

as The Devil

Naked City

as Herbert Konish

Suspicion

as James Mennick

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

DuPont Show of the Month

1957

as Willis Reynolds

6.8

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Nominee / Performer

5.9

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Nominee / Performer

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Sam Jacoby

Gunsmoke

as Judge Warfield

The Alcoa Hour

as Homer Bolton

Norby

as Preston Norby

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Colonel Rufus Ryder

7.8

General Electric Theater

as David Vincent

Omnibus

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Sakini

What's My Line?

as Self

Studio One

as Jasper Hornby

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self