Don Beddoe
Acting • Born 1903-07-01 – Died 1991-01-19
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years. After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory. Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy! Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films. Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s. Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again. During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.
Filmography
232 credits
The Night of the Hunter
Movie • 1955
Walt Spoon
The Secret Seven
Movie • 1940
Maj. Blaine
Blondie Meets the Boss
Movie • 1939
Marvin Williams
Blondie on a Budget
Movie • 1940
Marvin Williams
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Movie • 1942
J. Gilbert Brampton
Don't Bother to Knock
Movie • 1952
Mr. Ballew
The Talk of the Town
Movie • 1942
Police Chief
The Narrow Margin
Movie • 1952
Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
Jack the Giant Killer
Movie • 1962
Imp
Hoodlum Empire
Movie • 1952
Sen. Blake
The Man They Could Not Hang
Movie • 1939
Lieutenant Shane
Loophole
Movie • 1954
Herman Tate
The Company She Keeps
Movie • 1951
Jamieson
They Won't Believe Me
Movie • 1947
Thomason
The Enforcer
Movie • 1951
Thomas O'Hara
Buck Privates Come Home
Movie • 1947
Mr. Roberts (State Department)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Movie • 1947
Joey
Our Town
Movie • 1977
Constable Warren
The Face Behind the Mask
Movie • 1941
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
Crime, Inc.
Movie • 1945
Deputy District Attorney Dixon
The Band Wagon
Movie • 1953
Producer (uncredited)
Flame of Youth
Movie • 1949
George Briggs
The Lady Gambles
Movie • 1949
Mr. Dennis Sutherland
The Phantom Submarine
Movie • 1940
Bartlett
Warlock
Movie • 1959
Doctor Wagner
Woman in Hiding
Movie • 1950
Fat Salesman
Golden Boy
Movie • 1939
Borneo
Behind Green Lights
Movie • 1946
Yager
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Movie • 1940
Frederick Ross
Million Dollar Pursuit
Movie • 1951
Bowen
The System
Movie • 1953
Jerry Allen
Behind the High Wall
Movie • 1956
Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
Jubilee Trail
Movie • 1954
Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Winged Victory
Movie • 1944
Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
Flying G-Men
Movie • 1939
W. S. Hamilton
Not a Ladies' Man
Movie • 1942
'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
The Awful Goof
Movie • 1939
Drunk (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet
Movie • 1952
Pete (uncredited)
The Unknown Man
Movie • 1951
Fingerprint Man
The Great Rupert
Movie • 1950
Mr. Haggerty
Hideout
Movie • 1949
Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Carson City
Movie • 1952
Charles Crocker
The Spook Speaks
Movie • 1940
Newlywed husband
Dancing in the Dark
Movie • 1949
Barney Bassett
Girls of the Road
Movie • 1940
Sheriff
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Movie • 1955
Johnson
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Movie • 1941
Sheriff Haggerty
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Movie • 1940
Inspector Conroy
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Movie • 1949
Phillip Bellem
Stop, You're Killing Me
Movie • 1952
Clyde Post
Unholy Partners
Movie • 1941
Mike Reynolds
O.S.S.
Movie • 1946
Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
The Iron Mistress
Movie • 1952
Dr. Cuny
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Movie • 1946
Stonley
Island of Doomed Men
Movie • 1940
Brand
Easy Living
Movie • 1949
Jaeger
The Bogus Green
Movie • 1951
Alonzo
Bullwhip
Movie • 1958
Judge Carr
The Steel Cage
Movie • 1954
Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
Welcome Stranger
Movie • 1947
Mort Elkins
Three Sappy People
Movie • 1939
Rumsford
Blue Canadian Rockies
Movie • 1952
Cyrus Higbee
Scandal Sheet
Movie • 1939
Chick Keller
The Big Boss
Movie • 1941
Cliff Randall
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Movie • 1939
Police Inspector Thomas
The Killer Is Loose
Movie • 1956
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
Those High Grey Walls
Movie • 1939
Jockey
Men Without Souls
Movie • 1940
Warden Schafer
Black Bart
Movie • 1948
J.T. Hall
Boy Who Caught a Crook
Movie • 1961
Colonel
You Nazty Spy!
Movie • 1940
Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
River of No Return
Movie • 1954
Ben (uncredited)
Outside These Walls
Movie • 1939
Dinky
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Movie • 1957
Mayor Sam Pelley
Gasoline Alley
Movie • 1951
Walt Wallet
Once More, My Darling
Movie • 1949
Judge Fraser
This Thing Called Love
Movie • 1940
Tom Howland
Beyond the Purple Hills
Movie • 1950
Amos Rayburn
Beware Spooks!
Movie • 1939
Nick Bruno
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Movie • 1958
David Cooper
Blaze of Noon
Movie • 1947
Mr. Fell
For Love or Money
Movie • 1963
Milo
Mandrake the Magician
Movie • 1939
Frank Raymond
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Movie • 1940
Governor Dawson
Saintly Sinners
Movie • 1962
Father Dan Sheridan
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Reporter (uncredited)
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Movie • 1951
Walt Wallet
Texas Across the River
Movie • 1966
Mr. Naylor
Emergency Wedding
Movie • 1950
Forbish - Floorwalker
Cow Country
Movie • 1953
Joe Davis
Sweetheart of the Campus
Movie • 1941
Sheriff Denby
Before I Hang
Movie • 1940
Capt. McGraw
Papa's Delicate Condition
Movie • 1963
Mayor Ghio's assistant
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Movie • 1939
Fred Martin
Calcutta
Movie • 1946
Jack Collins (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Detective Deever
Texas
Movie • 1941
Sheriff
A Very Special Favor
Movie • 1965
Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
There's That Woman Again
Movie • 1938
Johnson
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Movie • 1967
Ragle
A Star Is Born
Movie • 1954
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
Kilroy
Movie • 1965
Commissioner
Caged
Movie • 1950
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
Manhattan Heartbeat
Movie • 1940
Preston
Man in the Saddle
Movie • 1951
Love Bidwell (uncredited)
Carrie
Movie • 1952
Mr. Goodman
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie • 1939
Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Wyoming Renegades
Movie • 1954
Banker Horace Warren
Coast Guard
Movie • 1939
Bartender (uncredited)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Movie • 1940
Big Joe Brady
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Movie • 1940
Police Doctor
The Heckler
Movie • 1940
Green Sox Manager (uncredited)
Texas Stagecoach
Movie • 1940
Tug Wilson
Bride of Vengeance
Movie • 1949
Councillor
The Joker is Wild
Movie • 1957
Heckler at the Copacabana (uncredited)
Meet the Stewarts
Movie • 1942
Taxi Driver
Shut My Big Mouth
Movie • 1942
Hill
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Movie • 1940
Process Server
Junior Army
Movie • 1942
Saginaw Jake
Getting Gertie's Garter
Movie • 1945
Clancy
The Impossible Years
Movie • 1968
Dr. Elliot Fish
Power of the Press
Movie • 1943
Pringle (uncredited)
Smith of Minnesota
Movie • 1942
Lew Smith
Harvard Here I Come
Movie • 1941
Hypo McGonigle
The Blonde from Singapore
Movie • 1941
Sgt. Burns
Under Age
Movie • 1941
Albert Ward
Missing Daughters
Movie • 1939
Al Farrow
My Son Is Guilty
Movie • 1939
Duke Mason
West of Abilene
Movie • 1940
Forsyth
Honolulu Lu
Movie • 1941
Bennie Blanchard
Sabotage Squad
Movie • 1942
Police Inspector Hanley
Romance of the Redwoods
Movie • 1939
Forbes
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Movie • 1951
Mr. Richards
Midnight Manhunt
Movie • 1945
Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
Room for One More
Movie • 1952
Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
The Clown
Movie • 1953
Gallagher
If You Knew Susie
Movie • 1948
Editor (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
Beyond the Sacramento
Movie • 1940
Warden McKay
California
Movie • 1947
Stark (uncredited)
Cafe Hostess
Movie • 1940
Customer
Generation
Movie • 1969
Gilbert
Lucky Legs
Movie • 1942
Ned McLane
Young Daniel Boone
Movie • 1950
Charlie Bryan
Escape to Glory
Movie • 1940
Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
Blades of the Musketeers
Movie • 1950
King Louis XIII
The Rawhide Years
Movie • 1956
Frank Porter
Convicted Woman
Movie • 1940
Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
They Dare Not Love
Movie • 1941
Second Sailor
Nickel Mountain
Movie • 1984
Doc Cathey
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie • 1950
The Meddler
Two Latins from Manhattan
Movie • 1941
Don Barlow
Glamour for Sale
Movie • 1940
Frank Regan
She Knew All the Answers
Movie • 1941
Barber
Mandrake the Magician
Movie • 1940
Frank Raymond
The Well Groomed Bride
Movie • 1946
Mr. Beatley
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Mr. Cameron
Sing for Your Supper
Movie • 1941
Wing Boley
Military Academy
Movie • 1940
Marty Lewis
Another Part of the Forest
Movie • 1948
Penniman
Black Eyes and Blues
Movie • 1941
Phineas Q. Potts
Pillow Talk
Movie • 1959
Mr. Walters
Gun Crazy
Movie • 1950
Chicago Man (uncredited)
Behave Yourself!
Movie • 1951
Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
So You Won't Talk?
Movie • 1940
Cop
How Do I Love Thee?
Movie • 1970
Dr. Littlefield
The Racket
Movie • 1951
Mitchell (uncredited)
Tarnished
Movie • 1950
Curtis Jellison
A Fair Chance
Movie • 1954
Mr. Wilson
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Movie • 1957
McKeever
Southside 1-1000
Movie • 1950
Slade
A Bewitched Christmas
Movie • 1994
Santa Claus
The Miracle on 34th Street
Movie • 1955
Mr. Macy
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Maverick
TV • 1957
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Clem Burgess
F Troop
TV • 1965
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Route 66
TV • 1960
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Dr. Joseph Depew
Mannix
TV • 1967
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
George Norris
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Halligan
Bewitched
TV • 1964
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Dr. Harvey
Lassie
TV • 1954
Laredo
TV • 1965
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Burt
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
TV • 1966
Straightaway
TV • 1961
Going My Way
TV • 1962
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Prof. Robey
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Mr. Thatcher
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Hood
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Dan Larsen
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Paul
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Doc Simmons
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Lieutenant Stone
Pete and Gladys
TV • 1960
Bronco
TV • 1958
The Alaskans
TV • 1959
Lawman
TV • 1958
Wire Service
TV • 1956
Raisner
The Texan
TV • 1958
Public Defender
TV • 1954
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Hornblower
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Uncle Charles
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
The Tom Ewell Show
TV • 1960
The O. Henry Playhouse
TV • 1957
Maximillian Jones
Maverick
TV • 1957
Price
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Minister
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Nicholas Barton
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Ticket Agent
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Bill Holmes
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Judge
Ensign O'Toole
TV • 1962
Admiral Hornsby
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
Mr. Barmarche
Mayberry R.F.D.
TV • 1968
G.B. Smith
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Mr. Vickers
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Mr. Thompson
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Dr. Blane
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Carter Farraday
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Mr. Taylor
The Second Hundred Years
TV • 1967
Old Man Tolliver
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Mr. Macy
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Judge
Your Jeweler's Showcase
TV • 1952
Charlie
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mr. Stacy