
David Wayne
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 30, 1914
- Died
- February 9, 1995 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- Traverse City - Michigan - USA
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.
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Filmography

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie · as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)

Poker Alice
Movie · as Amos

The Survivalist
Movie · as Dub Daniels
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

The Golden Girls
TV · as Big Daddy · 1 ep

Finders Keepers
Movie · as Stapleton

Crazy like a Fox
TV · as Jennings Hyde · 1 ep

Finder of Lost Loves
TV · as Professor Wheeler · 1 ep

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Cyrus Leffingwell · 1 ep

St. Elsewhere
TV · as George Wyler · 3 eps

Newhart
TV · as Mr. Pittman · 1 ep

Matt Houston
TV · as Bill Houston · 3 eps

The Prize Fighter
Movie · as Pop Morgan

The Girls in the Office
Movie · as Ben Nayfack

An American Christmas Carol
Movie · as Merrivale

House Calls
TV · as Amos Weatherby · 59 eps

Lassie: The New Beginning
Movie · as Amos

The Gift of Love
Movie · as O'Henry and Narrator

Murder at the Mardi Gras
Movie · as Mickey Mills

Dallas
TV · as Digger Barnes, Willard 'Digger' Barnes · 3 eps

In the Glitter Palace
Movie · as Nate Redstone

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV

Eight Is Enough
TV · 2 eps

Big Hawaii
TV · 1 ep

Hunter
TV · 1 ep

The Love Boat
TV · as Dwight Scoffield · 1 ep

That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage)

Delvecchio
TV · as Jack Henderson · 1 ep

Once an Eagle
TV · as Col. Terwilliger · 7 eps

The Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie · as T.R. Clydesdale

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Movie · as Insp. Richard Queen

Tubby the Tuba
Movie · as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Movie · as Dr. Abner Sedgwick

Switch
TV · as Dancer · 1 ep

Ellery Queen
TV · as Inspector Richard Queen · 22 eps

Barney Miller
TV · as E.J. Heiss · 1 ep

The Front Page
Movie · as Roy Bensinger

Huckleberry Finn
Movie · as The Duke

Return of the Big Cat
Movie · as Grandpa Jubal

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Movie · as Maynard Richards

Barnaby Jones
TV · as Raymond Lennox / 'Steele' · 1 ep

Faraday and Company
TV · as Branigan · 1 ep

The Catcher
Movie · as Armand Faber

The Brian Keith Show
TV · 1 ep

Banacek
TV · as Walter Tyson · 1 ep

The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Wally Sensibaugh · 1 ep

The Andromeda Strain
Movie · as Dr. Charles Dutton

The African Elephant
Movie · as Narrator

Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Movie · as David Wayne (uncredited)
The Good Life
TV · as Charles Dutton · 15 eps

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Movie · as Colonel Rufus Ryder
With These Hands
Movie · as Narrator

Night Gallery
TV · as Dr. Mill · 1 ep

Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie · as Teddy Brewster

Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Monsieur Bordeaux · 1 ep

The Name of the Game
TV · as Emory Ward · 1 ep

Mannix
TV · 1 ep

Ironside
TV · as Dr. Ian Rice · 1 ep

Batman
TV · as The Mad Hatter · 4 eps
CBS Playhouse
TV · as George Spears · 1 ep

Marilyn
Movie · as archive footage

Burke's Law
TV · as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin · 1 ep

Channing
TV · as Dr. James Crown · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as George Holloway · 1 ep

Sam Benedict
TV · 1 ep

The Virginian
TV · as Martin Reese · 1 ep

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Andrew Anderson · 1 ep

The Big Gamble
Movie · as Samuel Brennan

Anatomy of an Accident
Movie · as John Avery

The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Route 66
TV · 1 ep

Outlaws
TV · 2 eps

The Last Angry Man
Movie · as Woodrow Thrasher
Sunday Showcase
Movie

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Walter Bedeker · 1 ep
NBC Sunday Showcase
TV · as The Devil · 1 ep

Naked City
TV · as Herbert Konish · 1 ep

The Three Faces of Eve
Movie · as Ralph White

The Sad Sack
Movie · as Corporal Larry Dolan
The Jet-Propelled Couch
Movie · as Dr. Kirk Allen

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 1 ep

DuPont Show of the Month
TV · as Willis Reynolds · 1 ep

Suspicion
TV · as James Mennick · 1 ep

The Naked Hills
Movie · as Tracy Powell

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee / Performer, Self - Performer · 1 ep

The Tender Trap
Movie · as Joe McCall

Gunsmoke
TV · as Judge Warfield, Rev. Arthur Byrne · 1 ep

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Sam Jacoby · 1 ep
Norby
TV · as Preston Norby · 13 eps

The Alcoa Hour
TV · as Homer Bolton · 1 ep

Hell and High Water
Movie · as Tugboat Walker

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Grandpa Jubal, Colonel Rufus Ryder · 2 eps

How to Marry a Millionaire
Movie · as Freddie Denmark

Tonight We Sing
Movie · as Sol Hurok

Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Movie · as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt

The I Don't Care Girl
Movie · as Ed McCoy

General Electric Theater
TV · as David Vincent, Arthur Martin · 1 ep

We're Not Married!
Movie · as Jeff Norris

With a Song in My Heart
Movie · as Don Ross

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Movie · as Ben Halper

O. Henry's Full House
Movie · as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Omnibus
TV · 1 ep

M
Movie · as Martin W. Harrow

As Young as You Feel
Movie · as Joe Elliott

Up Front
Movie · as Joe

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Sakini, Father Firenzuola · 1 ep

The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie · as Arthur Maxwell

My Blue Heaven
Movie · as Walter Pringle

Stella
Movie · as Carl Granger

What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Adam's Rib
Movie · as Kip Lurie

Portrait of Jennie
Movie · as Gus O'Toole

Studio One
TV · as Jasper Hornby · 1 ep

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Ditch and Live
Movie · as Pilot of Ditching B-17

Stranger on the Third Floor
Movie · as Cab Driver (uncredited)



