David Wayne
Acting • Born 1914-01-30 – Died 1995-02-09
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.
Filmography
116 credits
The Front Page
Movie • 1974
Roy Bensinger
The Andromeda Strain
Movie • 1971
Dr. Charles Dutton
How to Marry a Millionaire
Movie • 1953
Freddie Denmark
Finders Keepers
Movie • 1984
Stapleton
Hell and High Water
Movie • 1954
Tugboat Walker
We're Not Married!
Movie • 1952
Jeff Norris
The Prize Fighter
Movie • 1979
Pop Morgan
Adam's Rib
Movie • 1949
Kip Lurie
Portrait of Jennie
Movie • 1948
Gus O'Toole
Lassie: The New Beginning
Movie • 1978
Amos
The Three Faces of Eve
Movie • 1957
Ralph White
M
Movie • 1951
Martin W. Harrow
The Sad Sack
Movie • 1957
Corporal Larry Dolan
The Tender Trap
Movie • 1955
Joe McCall
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie • 1950
Arthur Maxwell
As Young as You Feel
Movie • 1951
Joe Elliott
With a Song in My Heart
Movie • 1952
Don Ross
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie • 1975
T.R. Clydesdale
Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1974
The Duke
My Blue Heaven
Movie • 1950
Walter Pringle
Tonight We Sing
Movie • 1953
Sol Hurok
The Last Angry Man
Movie • 1959
Woodrow Thrasher
The Naked Hills
Movie • 1956
Tracy Powell
The Gift of Love
Movie • 1978
O'Henry and Narrator
Poker Alice
Movie • 1987
Amos
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Movie • 1953
Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
Stella
Movie • 1950
Carl Granger
The Survivalist
Movie • 1987
Dub Daniels
Up Front
Movie • 1951
Joe
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Movie • 1952
Ben Halper
The I Don't Care Girl
Movie • 1953
Ed McCoy
The Big Gamble
Movie • 1961
Samuel Brennan
O. Henry's Full House
Movie • 1952
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Movie • 1975
Insp. Richard Queen
Tubby the Tuba
Movie • 1975
Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
The African Elephant
Movie • 1971
Narrator
Return of the Big Cat
Movie • 1974
Grandpa Jubal
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Movie • 1978
Mickey Mills
The Girls in the Office
Movie • 1979
Ben Nayfack
In the Glitter Palace
Movie • 1977
Nate Redstone
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Movie • 1975
Dr. Abner Sedgwick
Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie • 1969
Teddy Brewster
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie • 2005
Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Ditch and Live
Movie • 1944
Pilot of Ditching B-17
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Movie • 1970
Colonel Rufus Ryder
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Movie • 1971
David Wayne (uncredited)
The Catcher
Movie • 1972
Armand Faber
An American Christmas Carol
Movie • 1979
Merrivale
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Movie • 1974
Maynard Richards
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
Movie • 1986
Narrator (voice)
With These Hands
Movie • 1970
Narrator
Anatomy of an Accident
Movie • 1961
John Avery
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
George Wyler
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Big Daddy
Batman
TV • 1966
The Mad Hatter
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Monsieur Bordeaux
Route 66
TV • 1960
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Judge Warfield
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Naked City
TV • 1958
Herbert Konish
Mannix
TV • 1967
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV • 1977
Newhart
TV • 1982
Mr. Pittman
Studio One
TV • 1948
Jasper Hornby
Dallas
TV • 1978
Digger Barnes
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
David Vincent
Eight Is Enough
TV • 1977
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sakini
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Walter Bedeker
Crazy like a Fox
TV • 1984
Jennings Hyde
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Sam Jacoby
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Switch
TV • 1975
Dancer
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Martin Reese
House Calls
TV • 1979
Amos Weatherby
Matt Houston
TV • 1982
Ellery Queen
TV • 1975
Inspector Richard Queen
The Brian Keith Show
TV • 1972
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Norby
TV • 1955
Preston Norby
Big Hawaii
TV • 1977
Hunter
TV • 1977
Channing
TV • 1963
Dr. James Crown
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
NBC Sunday Showcase
TV • 1959
The Devil
The Good Life
TV • 1971
Charles Dutton
Delvecchio
TV • 1976
Jack Henderson
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Rev. Arthur Byrne
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Arthur Martin
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
Banacek
TV • 1972
Walter Tyson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Father Firenzuola
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Grandpa Jubal
Matt Houston
TV • 1982
Bill Houston
The Alcoa Hour
TV • 1955
Homer Bolton
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Willis Reynolds
Finder of Lost Loves
TV • 1984
Professor Wheeler
Ironside
TV • 1967
Dr. Ian Rice
Dallas
TV • 1978
Willard 'Digger' Barnes
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
E.J. Heiss
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
George Holloway
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
Once an Eagle
TV • 1976
Col. Terwilliger
Suspicion
TV • 1957
James Mennick
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Andrew Anderson
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Cyrus Leffingwell
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Emory Ward
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Colonel Rufus Ryder
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Dr. Mill
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Wally Sensibaugh
Loose Change
TV • 1978
Dr. Moe Sinden