Wesley Addy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 4, 1913
- Died
- December 31, 1996 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Biography
Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, usually opposite actor Maurice Evans. After playing two roles in one of Evans's productions of Hamlet, he played Horatio opposite Evans's Hamlet in a 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the work, the most prestigious American production of the play seen on TV up to that time. Also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. Later, during the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryan's Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. In motion pictures, Addy's career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in several pictures, such as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) and The Grissom Gang (1971). In 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work together again in The Verdict., in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newman's case against a hospital for malpractice. Another of Addy's best-remembered roles was that of Lt. Cdr. Alvin Kramer, who unsuccessfully tries to warn American officials of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora!. Addy was born as Robert Wesley Addy in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Danbury, Connecticut. He was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
A Modern Affair
Movie · as Ed Rhodes
Before and After
Movie · as Judge Grady
Hiroshima
Movie · as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Hiroshima
TV · as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson · 2 eps
The Bostonians
Movie · as Dr. Tarrant
Loving
Movie · as Cabot Alden
Rage of Angels
TV · as Abner Parker · 2 eps
The Verdict
Movie · as Dr. Towler
American Playhouse
TV · as Mr. Wentworth · 1 ep
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Movie · as Connecticut Minister
The Europeans
Movie · as Mr. Wentworth
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie · as Middleton
The Andros Targets
TV · as General Graves · 1 ep
Network
Movie · as Nelson Chaney
The Adams Chronicles
TV · as Andrew Jackson · 7 eps
The Rockford Files
TV · as Agent Steiner · 1 ep
The Grissom Gang
Movie · as John P. Blandish
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie · as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
Medical Center
TV · 1 ep
Ironside
TV · 1 ep
The Invaders
TV · as Tomkins · 1 ep
Seconds
Movie · as John
Mister Buddwing
Movie · as Dice Player
The Rat Patrol
TV · as Colonel Leske · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as U.S. Attorney Cline, Goulding, Jock Mitchell, Carl Torrance, Carl Munroe · 1 ep
I Spy
TV · as Hubbard · 1 ep
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie · as Sheriff Standish
Profiles in Courage
TV · as Hellinger · 1 ep
4 for Texas
Movie · as Winthrop Trowbridge
The Fugitive
TV · as Homer Price · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Dr. Rahm · 1 ep
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie · as Marty McDonald
The Defenders
TV · as Dr. Simons · 1 ep
John Brown's Raid
Movie · as Col. Lewis Washington
Ten Seconds to Hell
Movie · as Wolfgang Sulke
The Garment Jungle
Movie · as Mr. Paul
Perry Mason
TV · as Alton Brent, Joachim DeVry · 1 ep
Time Table
Movie · as Dr. Paul Brucker
The Edge of Night
TV · 306 eps
The Big Knife
Movie · as Horatio "Hank" Teagle
Kiss Me Deadly
Movie · as Lt. Pat Murphy
King Lear
Movie · as King of France
The Other Wise Man
Movie
Hamlet
Movie · as Horatio
Omnibus
TV · as King of France · 1 ep
The First Legion
Movie · as Father John Fulton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as James Monroe · 1 ep
Suspense
TV · 1 ep
Studio One
TV · as McAllister, Steven Coryat, Walter Marshall · 1 ep
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · 3 eps
Ford Theatre
TV · as Prof. Allen Carr · 1 ep