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