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