David Wayne

David Wayne

  • Birthday: 1914-01-30
  • Deathday: 1995-02-09
  • Place of birth: Traverse City - Michigan - USA
  • Also know as: Wayne James McMeekan

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   David Wayne (January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years. Early life and career 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

M

1951

As Martin W. Harrow

The Naked Hills

1956

As Tracy Powell

Up Front

1951

As Joe

The African Elephant

1971

As Narrator

The Andromeda Strain

1971

As Dr. Charles Dutton

The Three Faces of Eve

1957

As Ralph White

The Sad Sack

1957

As Corporal Larry Dolan

Tonight We Sing

1953

As Sol Hurok

The Last Angry Man

1959

As Woodrow Thrasher

The I Don't Care Girl

1953

As Ed McCoy

An American Christmas Carol

1979

As Merrivale

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

1975

As Insp. Richard Queen

The Prize Fighter

1979

As Pop Morgan

The Tender Trap

1955

As Joe McCall

The Reformer and the Redhead

1950

As Arthur Maxwell

As Young as You Feel

1951

As Joe Elliott

With a Song in My Heart

1952

As Don Ross

My Blue Heaven

1950

As Walter Pringle

Stella

1950

As Carl Granger

The Big Gamble

1961

As Samuel Brennan

How to Marry a Millionaire

1953

As Freddie Denmark

Huckleberry Finn

1974

As The Duke

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

1953

As Lt. Carl G. Schmidt

The Front Page

1974

As Roy Bensinger

We're Not Married!

1952

As Jeff Norris

Adam's Rib

1949

As Kip Lurie

Poker Alice

1987

As Amos

Hell and High Water

1954

As Tugboat Walker

Portrait of Jennie

1948

As Gus O'Toole

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975

As T.R. Clydesdale

The Gift of Love

1978

As O'Henry and Narrator

The Survivalist

1987

As Dub Daniels

Finders Keepers

1984

As Stapleton

Ditch and Live

1944

As Pilot of ditching B-17

The Catcher

1972

As Armand Faber

Tubby the Tuba

1975

As Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)

The Girls in the Office

1979

As Ben Nayfack

Arsenic and Old Lace

1969

As Teddy Brewster

Murder at the Mardi Gras

1978

As Mickey Mills

O. Henry's Full House

1952

As Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

In the Glitter Palace

1977

As Nate Redstone

Loose Change

1978

As Dr. Moe Sinden

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

1970

As Colonel Rufus Ryder

Marilyn

1963

As Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1971

As David Wayne (uncredited)

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

As Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time")

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

As Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

As (archive footage)

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