Actor
· Acting
David Wayne
Born 1914-01-30
Died 1995-02-09
📍 Traverse City - Michigan - USA
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 111
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
2005
Poker Alice
as Amos
1987
The Survivalist
as Dub Daniels
1987
The Golden Girls
as Big Daddy
1985
Crazy like a Fox
as Jennings Hyde
1984
Murder, She Wrote
as Cyrus Leffingwell
1984
Finder of Lost Loves
as Professor Wheeler
1984
Finders Keepers
as Stapleton
1984
St. Elsewhere
as George Wyler
1982
Newhart
as Mr. Pittman
1982
Matt Houston
1982
Matt Houston
as Bill Houston
1982
House Calls
as Amos Weatherby
1979
An American Christmas Carol
as Merrivale
1979
The Prize Fighter
as Pop Morgan
1979
The Girls in the Office
as Ben Nayfack
1979
The Gift of Love
as O'Henry and Narrator
1978
Lassie: The New Beginning
as Amos
1978
Murder at the Mardi Gras
as Mickey Mills
1978
Dallas
as Digger Barnes
1978
Dallas
as Willard 'Digger' Barnes
1978
Loose Change
as Dr. Moe Sinden
1978
Big Hawaii
1977
Eight Is Enough
1977
In the Glitter Palace
as Nate Redstone
1977
Hunter
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Once an Eagle
as Col. Terwilliger
1976
Delvecchio
as Jack Henderson
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
Ellery Queen
as Inspector Richard Queen
1975
Switch
as Dancer
1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as T.R. Clydesdale
1975
Tubby the Tuba
as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
1975
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
as Insp. Richard Queen
1975
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
1975
Barney Miller
as E.J. Heiss
1975
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Maynard Richards
1974
The Front Page
as Roy Bensinger
1974
Return of the Big Cat
as Grandpa Jubal
1974
Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
1974
Faraday and Company
as Branigan
1973
Barnaby Jones
as Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
1973
The Streets of San Francisco
as Wally Sensibaugh
1972
The Brian Keith Show
1972
Banacek
as Walter Tyson
1972
The Catcher
as Armand Faber
1972
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as David Wayne (uncredited)
1971
The African Elephant
as Narrator
1971
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charles Dutton
1971
Night Gallery
as Dr. Mill
1970
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
1970
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Teddy Brewster
1969
Hawaii Five-O
as Monsieur Bordeaux
1968
The Name of the Game
as Emory Ward
1968
Mannix
1967
Ironside
as Dr. Ian Rice
1967
Batman
as The Mad Hatter
1966
Burke's Law
as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
1963
Channing
as Dr. James Crown
1963
Marilyn
as archive footage
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Andrew Anderson
1962
The Virginian
as Martin Reese
1962
Sam Benedict
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
The Big Gamble
as Samuel Brennan
1961
Anatomy of an Accident
as John Avery
1961
Route 66
1960
Outlaws
1960
The Last Angry Man
as Woodrow Thrasher
1959
The Twilight Zone
as Walter Bedeker
1959
Naked City
as Herbert Konish
1958
The Three Faces of Eve
as Ralph White
1957
The Sad Sack
as Corporal Larry Dolan
1957
Suspicion
as James Mennick
1957
DuPont Show of the Month
as Willis Reynolds
1957
The Naked Hills
as Tracy Powell
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Performer
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
The Tender Trap
as Joe McCall
1955
The Alcoa Hour
as Homer Bolton
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Jacoby
1955
Gunsmoke
as Judge Warfield
1955
Gunsmoke
as Rev. Arthur Byrne
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Grandpa Jubal
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
1954
Hell and High Water
as Tugboat Walker
1954
How to Marry a Millionaire
as Freddie Denmark
1953
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
1953
General Electric Theater
as David Vincent
1953
General Electric Theater
as Arthur Martin
1953
Tonight We Sing
as Sol Hurok
1953
The I Don't Care Girl
as Ed McCoy
1953
Omnibus
1952
O. Henry's Full House
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1952
We're Not Married!
as Jeff Norris
1952
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
as Ben Halper
1952
With a Song in My Heart
as Don Ross
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sakini
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Father Firenzuola
1951
As Young as You Feel
as Joe Elliott
1951
Up Front
as Joe
1951
M
as Martin W. Harrow
1951
My Blue Heaven
as Walter Pringle
1950
Stella
as Carl Granger
1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Arthur Maxwell
1950
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
Adam's Rib
as Kip Lurie
1949
Portrait of Jennie
as Gus O'Toole
1948
Studio One
as Jasper Hornby
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948