Don Beddoe
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Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years.
After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory.
Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy!
Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films.
Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s.
Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again.
During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.
Known for
Perry Mason
George Norris
Perry Mason
Dr. Blane
Perry Mason
Carter Farraday
Mannix
Bewitched
Little House on the Prairie
Lassie
Wagon Train
Judge
Four Star Playhouse
Mr. Vickers
Four Star Playhouse
Mr. Thompson
Maverick
Maverick
Price
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
The Wild Wild West
Prof. Robey
Petticoat Junction
Dr. Joseph Depew
Gunsmoke
Halligan
Rawhide
Hood
Rawhide
Minister
The Lucy Show
Mr. Barmarche
Lawman
Route 66
The Texan
The Man They Could Not Hang
Lieutenant Shane
Laredo
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Burt
One Step Beyond
Doc Simmons
Mayberry R.F.D.
G.B. Smith
Bronco
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mr. Taylor
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mr. Macy
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Lieutenant Stone
The Millionaire
Dan Larsen
F Troop
Lux Video Theatre
Paul
Lux Video Theatre
Judge
Cain's Hundred
Clem Burgess
Caged
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
Bullwhip
Judge Carr
Wire Service
Raisner
Golden Boy
Borneo
Pillow Talk
Mr. Walters
Missing Daughters
Al Farrow
Mr. & Mrs. North
Public Defender
Black Bart
J.T. Hall
How Do I Love Thee?
Dr. Littlefield
California
Stark (uncredited)
Military Academy
Marty Lewis
Nickel Mountain
Doc Cathey
Gun Crazy
Chicago Man (uncredited)
The Clown
Gallagher
Our Town
Constable Warren
Carrie
Mr. Goodman
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Joey
Wyoming Renegades
Banker Horace Warren
The Racket
Mitchell (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Cameron
Going My Way
The Night of the Hunter
Walt Spoon
Pete and Gladys
The Alaskans
Cow Country
Joe Davis
Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet
River of No Return
Ben (uncredited)
Nanny and the Professor
Mr. Thatcher
Texas
Sheriff
Easy Living
Jaeger
Tarnished
Curtis Jellison
Warlock
Doctor Wagner
Calcutta
Jack Collins (uncredited)
Jubilee Trail
Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The System
Jerry Allen
Hoodlum Empire
Sen. Blake
Under Age
Albert Ward
Behave Yourself!
Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
Manhattan Heartbeat
Preston
Texas Across the River
Mr. Naylor
Lucky Legs
Ned McLane
Hey, Jeannie!
Hornblower
Ensign O'Toole
Admiral Hornsby
Winged Victory
Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
CBS Playhouse
Loophole
Herman Tate
Kilroy
Commissioner
Crime, Inc.
Deputy District Attorney Dixon
Emergency Wedding
Forbish - Floorwalker
Cafe Hostess
Customer
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
The Talk of the Town
Police Chief
Letter to Loretta
Uncle Charles
Letter to Loretta
Nicholas Barton
Letter to Loretta
Bill Holmes
Million Dollar Pursuit
Bowen
A Star Is Born
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
The Second Hundred Years
Old Man Tolliver
Texas Stagecoach
Tug Wilson
Jack the Giant Killer
Imp
Carson City
Charles Crocker
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Meddler
Welcome Stranger
Mort Elkins
Beware Spooks!
Nick Bruno
The Face Behind the Mask
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
The Tom Ewell Show
Straightaway
Woman in Hiding
Fat Salesman
The Great Rupert
Mr. Haggerty (as Donald T. Beddoe)
Room for One More
Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
Unholy Partners
Mike Reynolds
The Company She Keeps
Jamieson
The Unknown Man
Ed--Fingerprint Man
Don't Bother to Knock
Mr. Ballew
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self (archive footage)
A Bewitched Christmas
Santa Claus
A Very Special Favor
Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Governor Dawson
The Band Wagon
Producer (uncredited)
The Well Groomed Bride
Mr. Beatley
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
David Cooper
The Killer Is Loose
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
They Won't Believe Me
Thomason
O.S.S.
Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Police Inspector Thomas
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Johnson
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Frederick Ross
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Detective Deever
Stop, You're Killing Me
Clyde Post
Good Girls Go to Paris
Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Meet the Stewarts
Taxi Driver
The Impossible Years
Dr. Elliot Fish
Power of the Press
Pringle (uncredited)
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Sheriff Haggerty
Romance of the Redwoods
Forbes
Bride of Vengeance
Councillor
Young Daniel Boone
Charlie Bryan
Flame of Youth
George Briggs
The Joker is Wild
Heckler at the Copacabana (uncredited)
Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond
Man in the Saddle
Love Bidwell (uncredited)
If You Knew Susie
Editor (uncredited)
Not a Ladies' Man
'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
There's That Woman Again
Johnson
Those High Grey Walls
Jockey
They Dare Not Love
Second Sailor
Before I Hang
Capt. McGraw
Blades of the Musketeers
King Louis XIII
Black Eyes and Blues
Phineas Q. Potts
Island of Doomed Men
Brand
The Big Boss
Cliff Randall
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Big Joe Brady
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Process Server
She Knew All the Answers
Barber
Two Latins from Manhattan
Don Barlow
The Steel Cage
Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
Men Without Souls
Warden Schafer
The Rawhide Years
Frank Porter
Once More, My Darling
Judge Fraser
Behind Green Lights
Yager
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Stonley
You Nazty Spy!
Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
Blaze of Noon
Mr. Fell
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Inspector Conroy
Union Pacific
Reporter (uncredited)
For Love or Money
Milo
Another Part of the Forest
Penniman
The Lady Gambles
Mr. Dennis Sutherland
Southside 1-1000
Slade
The Iron Mistress
Dr. Cuny
Shut My Big Mouth
Hill
Dancing in the Dark
Barney Bassett
So You Won't Talk?
Cop
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Fred Martin
The Secret Seven
Maj. Blaine
West of Abilene
Forsyth
Beyond the Sacramento
Warden McKay
Boy Who Caught a Crook
Colonel
The Narrow Margin
Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Police Doctor
General Electric Theater
Dr. Harvey
General Electric Theater
Ticket Agent
Blondie on a Budget
Marvin Williams
This Thing Called Love
Tom Howland
Buck Privates Come Home
Mr. Roberts (State Department)
Papa's Delicate Condition
Mayor Ghio's assistant
Outside These Walls
Dinky
Escape to Glory
Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
The Enforcer
Thomas O'Hara
Scandal Sheet
Pete (uncredited)
Blondie Meets the Boss
Marvin Williams
Getting Gertie's Garter
Clancy
The O. Henry Playhouse
Maximillian Jones
Glamour for Sale
Frank Regan
Girls of the Road
Sheriff
My Son Is Guilty
Duke Mason
Sweetheart of the Campus
Sheriff Denby
Hideout
Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Mr. Richards
Harvard Here I Come
Hypo McGonigle
The Heckler
Green Sox Manager (uncredited)
The Blonde from Singapore
Sgt. Burns
Invitation to a Gunfighter
McKeever
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Phillip Bellem
Three Sappy People
Rumsford
Behind the High Wall
Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
Coast Guard
Bartender (uncredited)
Beyond the Purple Hills
Amos Rayburn
Smith of Minnesota
Lew Smith
Convicted Woman
Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
The Awful Goof
Drunk (uncredited)
The Spook Speaks
Newlywed husband
Flying G-Men
W. S. Hamilton
The Phantom Submarine
Bartlett
Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond
Sabotage Squad
Police Inspector Hanley
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Mayor Sam Pelley
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Ragle
Saintly Sinners
Father Dan Sheridan
Midnight Manhunt
Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
Junior Army
Saginaw Jake
Blue Canadian Rockies
Cyrus Higbee
The Boogie Man Will Get You
J. Gilbert Brampton
Generation
Gilbert
Sing for Your Supper
Wing Boley
Honolulu Lu
Bennie Blanchard
The Bogus Green
Alonzo
Scandal Sheet
Chick Keller
A Fair Chance
Mr. Wilson