David Wayne

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Traverse City - Michigan - USA, 1914-01-30

Died: 1995-02-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Ditch and Live	Pilot of Ditching B-17	0
2	1948	Portrait of Jennie	Gus O'Toole	71
3	1949	Adam's Rib	Kip Lurie	71
4	1950	The Reformer and the Redhead	Arthur Maxwell	63
5	1950	Stella	Carl Granger	0
6	1950	My Blue Heaven	Walter Pringle	70
7	1951	M	Martin W. Harrow	63
8	1951	Up Front	Joe	0
9	1951	As Young as You Feel	Joe Elliott	68
10	1952	With a Song in My Heart	Don Ross	59
11	1952	Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie	Ben Halper	56
12	1952	We're Not Married!	Jeff Norris	59
13	1952	O. Henry's Full House	Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")	65
14	1953	The I Don't Care Girl	Ed McCoy	65
15	1953	Tonight We Sing	Sol Hurok	100
16	1953	Down Among the Sheltering Palms	Lt. Carl G. Schmidt	50
17	1953	How to Marry a Millionaire	Freddie Denmark	68
18	1954	Hell and High Water	Tugboat Walker	61
19	1955	The Tender Trap	Joe McCall	62
20	1956	The Naked Hills	Tracy Powell	46
21	1957	The Sad Sack	Corporal Larry Dolan	56
22	1957	The Three Faces of Eve	Ralph White	72
23	1959	The Last Angry Man	Woodrow Thrasher	69
24	1961	The Big Gamble	Samuel Brennan	57
25	1963	Marilyn	Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited)	60
26	1969	Arsenic and Old Lace	Teddy Brewster	70
27	1970	The Boy Who Stole the Elephant	Colonel Rufus Ryder	40
28	1971	The Andromeda Strain	Dr. Charles Dutton	70
29	1971	The African Elephant	Narrator	0
30	1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood	David Wayne (uncredited)	47
31	1972	The Catcher	Armand Faber	60
32	1974	Huckleberry Finn	The Duke	59
33	1974	Return of the Big Cat	Grandpa Jubal	0
34	1974	The Front Page	Roy Bensinger	73
35	1974	The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One	Maynard Richards	0
36	1975	It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!	Dr. Abner Sedgwick	40
37	1975	Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects	Insp. Richard Queen	0
38	1975	Tubby the Tuba	Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)	0
39	1975	The Apple Dumpling Gang	T.R. Clydesdale	65
40	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
41	1977	In the Glitter Palace	Nate Redstone	35
42	1978	Loose Change	Dr. Moe Sinden	0
43	1978	Murder at the Mardi Gras	Mickey Mills	0
44	1978	Lassie: The New Beginning	Amos	48
45	1978	The Gift of Love	O'Henry and Narrator	60
46	1979	The Girls in the Office	Ben Nayfack	20
47	1979	The Prize Fighter	Pop Morgan	48
48	1979	An American Christmas Carol	Merrivale	62
49	1984	Finders Keepers	Stapleton	54
50	1986	Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen	Narrator (voice)	0
51	1986	Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage)	75
52	1987	The Survivalist	Dub Daniels	24
53	1987	Poker Alice	Amos	63
54	2005	Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards	Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)	72

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	Studio One	Jasper Hornby	50
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	69
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Sakini	86
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Father Firenzuola	86
6	1952	Omnibus		60
7	1953	General Electric Theater	David Vincent	63
8	1953	General Electric Theater	Arthur Martin	63
9	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Grandpa Jubal	78
10	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Colonel Rufus Ryder	78
11	1955	Norby	Preston Norby	0
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Judge Warfield	66
13	1955	Gunsmoke	Rev. Arthur Byrne	66
14	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Sam Jacoby	77
15	1955	The Alcoa Hour	Homer Bolton	40
16	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee / Performer	51
17	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Performer	51
18	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
19	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Willis Reynolds	68
20	1957	Suspicion	James Mennick	59
21	1958	Naked City	Herbert Konish	55
22	1959	NBC Sunday Showcase	The Devil	43
23	1959	The Twilight Zone	Walter Bedeker	84
24	1960	Outlaws		62
25	1960	Route 66		63
26	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
27	1962	Sam Benedict		60
28	1962	The Virginian	Martin Reese	65
29	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Andrew Anderson	78
30	1963	Channing	Dr. James Crown	70
31	1963	Burke's Law	Al 'The Bomber' Devlin	60
32	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	George Holloway	57
33	1966	Batman	The Mad Hatter	73
34	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
35	1967	Ironside	Dr. Ian Rice	68
36	1967	Mannix		67
37	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Monsieur Bordeaux	71
38	1968	The Name of the Game	Emory Ward	68
39	1970	Night Gallery	Dr. Mill	78
40	1971	The Good Life	Charles Dutton	50
41	1972	Banacek	Walter Tyson	86
42	1972	The Brian Keith Show		50
43	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Wally Sensibaugh	69
44	1973	Barnaby Jones	Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'	69
45	1975	Barney Miller	E.J. Heiss	73
46	1975	Switch	Dancer	67
47	1975	Ellery Queen	Inspector Richard Queen	74
48	1976	Delvecchio	Jack Henderson	0
49	1976	Once an Eagle	Col. Terwilliger	68
50	1977	The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries		71
51	1977	Hunter		80
52	1977	Eight Is Enough		60
53	1977	Big Hawaii		50
54	1978	Dallas	Digger Barnes	69
55	1978	Dallas	Willard 'Digger' Barnes	69
56	1979	House Calls	Amos Weatherby	50
57	1982	Matt Houston		62
58	1982	Matt Houston	Bill Houston	62
59	1982	Newhart	Mr. Pittman	71
60	1982	St. Elsewhere		55
61	1984	Finder of Lost Loves	Professor Wheeler	57
62	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Cyrus Leffingwell	75
63	1984	Crazy like a Fox	Jennings Hyde	71
64	1985	The Golden Girls	Big Daddy	75

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