Wesley Addy
Acting • Born 1913-08-04 – Died 1996-12-31
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.
Filmography
57 credits
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie • 1962
Marty McDonald
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie • 1964
Sheriff Standish
Network
Movie • 1976
Nelson Chaney
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
Seconds
Movie • 1966
John
The Verdict
Movie • 1982
Dr. Towler
The Garment Jungle
Movie • 1957
Mr. Paul
Ten Seconds to Hell
Movie • 1959
Wolfgang Sulke
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie • 1977
Middleton
Time Table
Movie • 1956
Dr. Paul Brucker
The Big Knife
Movie • 1955
Horatio "Hank" Teagle
4 for Texas
Movie • 1963
Winthrop Trowbridge
Kiss Me Deadly
Movie • 1955
Lt. Pat Murphy
A Modern Affair
Movie • 1996
Ed Rhodes
Hiroshima
Movie • 1995
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Mister Buddwing
Movie • 1966
Dice Player
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Movie • 1981
Connecticut Minister
The Europeans
Movie • 1979
Mr. Wentworth
The First Legion
Movie • 1951
Father John Fulton
The Grissom Gang
Movie • 1971
John P. Blandish
The Bostonians
Movie • 1984
Dr. Tarrant
Before and After
Movie • 1996
Judge Grady
Loving
Movie • 1983
Cabot Alden
King Lear
Movie • 1953
King of France
John Brown's Raid
Movie • 1960
Col. Lewis Washington
The Other Wise Man
Movie • 1953
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
U.S. Attorney Cline
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Alton Brent
Studio One
TV • 1948
McAllister
The Edge of Night
TV • 1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
James Monroe
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Homer Price
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Hellinger
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Rat Patrol
TV • 1966
Colonel Leske
Suspense
TV • 1949
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Dr. Simons
The Andros Targets
TV • 1977
General Graves
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Goulding
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Jock Mitchell
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Carl Torrance
Omnibus
TV • 1952
King of France
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Dr. Rahm
Rage of Angels
TV • 1983
Abner Parker
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Joachim DeVry
Studio One
TV • 1948
Steven Coryat
Studio One
TV • 1948
Walter Marshall
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Agent Steiner
I Spy
TV • 1965
Hubbard
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Tomkins
Hiroshima
TV • 1995
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
The Adams Chronicles
TV • 1976
Andrew Jackson
Ford Theatre
TV • 1948
Prof. Allen Carr
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Carl Munroe