David Wayne
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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
Credits
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
as Dr. Charles Dutton
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
as Freddie Denmark
The Front Page (1974)
as Roy Bensinger
Adam's Rib (1949)
as Kip Lurie
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
as T.R. Clydesdale
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
as Gus O'Toole
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Lassie: The New Beginning (1978)
as Amos
Hell and High Water (1954)
as Tugboat Walker
We're Not Married! (1952)
as Jeff Norris
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
as Ralph White
Finders Keepers (1984)
as Stapleton
The Tender Trap (1955)
as Joe McCall
M (1951)
as Martin W. Harrow
An American Christmas Carol (1979)
as Merrivale
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Teddy Brewster
Huckleberry Finn (1974)
as The Duke
The Gift of Love (1978)
as O'Henry and Narrator
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects (1975)
as Insp. Richard Queen
The Last Angry Man (1959)
as Woodrow Thrasher
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
as Don Ross
Sunday Showcase (1959)
Actor
Poker Alice (1987)
as Amos
The Sad Sack (1957)
as Corporal Larry Dolan
As Young as You Feel (1951)
as Joe Elliott
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
as Arthur Maxwell
The Girls in the Office (1979)
as Ben Nayfack
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! (1975)
as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
as Ben Halper
Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)
as David Wayne (uncredited)
The I Don't Care Girl (1953)
as Ed McCoy
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974)
as Maynard Richards
Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978)
as Mickey Mills
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970)
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
The Jet-Propelled Couch (1957)
as Dr. Kirk Allen
Anatomy of an Accident (1961)
as John Avery
My Blue Heaven (1950)
as Walter Pringle
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
as Nate Redstone
The Prize Fighter (1979)
as Pop Morgan
The African Elephant (1971)
as Narrator
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
Return of the Big Cat (1974)
as Grandpa Jubal
Marilyn (1963)
as archive footage
The Big Gamble (1961)
as Samuel Brennan
The Naked Hills (1956)
as Tracy Powell
Up Front (1951)
as Joe
Ditch and Live (1944)
as Pilot of Ditching B-17
Stella (1950)
as Carl Granger
The Survivalist (1987)
as Dub Daniels
The Catcher (1972)
as Armand Faber
Tubby the Tuba (1975)
as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
Tonight We Sing (1953)
as Sol Hurok
With These Hands (1970)
as Narrator
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen (1986)
as Narrator (voice)