People
David Wayne
- Name: David Wayne
- Birthday: 1914-01-30
- Also known as: Wayne James McMeekan
- Place of birth: Traverse City - Michigan - USA
- Popularity: 4.156
Biography:
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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).
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage) | 2005-08-07 |
| Poker Alice as Amos | 1987-05-21 |
| The Survivalist as Dub Daniels | 1987-01-02 |
| Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage) | 1986-04-19 |
| Finders Keepers as Stapleton | 1984-05-18 |
| An American Christmas Carol as Merrivale | 1979-12-16 |
| The Prize Fighter as Pop Morgan | 1979-11-02 |
| The Girls in the Office as Ben Nayfack | 1979-02-02 |
| The Gift of Love as O'Henry and Narrator | 1978-12-08 |
| Lassie: The New Beginning as Amos | 1978-09-01 |
| Murder at the Mardi Gras as Mickey Mills | 1978-05-10 |
| Loose Change as Dr. Moe Sinden | 1978-02-26 |
| In the Glitter Palace as Nate Redstone | 1977-02-23 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang as T.R. Clydesdale | 1975-07-01 |
| Tubby the Tuba as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice) | 1975-04-30 |
| Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects as Insp. Richard Queen | 1975-03-23 |
| It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! as Dr. Abner Sedgwick | 1975-02-21 |
| The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One as Maynard Richards | 1974-11-08 |
| The Front Page as Roy Bensinger | 1974-11-01 |
| Return of the Big Cat as Grandpa Jubal | 1974-10-06 |
| Huckleberry Finn as The Duke | 1974-05-24 |
| The Catcher as Armand Faber | 1972-06-02 |
| Mooch Goes to Hollywood as David Wayne (uncredited) | 1971-12-31 |
| The African Elephant as Narrator | 1971-10-01 |
| The Andromeda Strain as Dr. Charles Dutton | 1971-03-12 |
| The Boy Who Stole the Elephant as Colonel Rufus Ryder | 1970-09-20 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace as Teddy Brewster | 1969-04-02 |
| Marilyn as Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1963-04-18 |
| The Big Gamble as Samuel Brennan | 1961-07-25 |
| The Last Angry Man as Woodrow Thrasher | 1959-10-22 |
| The Three Faces of Eve as Ralph White | 1957-12-19 |
| The Sad Sack as Corporal Larry Dolan | 1957-11-27 |
| The Naked Hills as Tracy Powell | 1956-06-17 |
| The Tender Trap as Joe McCall | 1955-11-04 |
| Hell and High Water as Tugboat Walker | 1954-02-06 |
| How to Marry a Millionaire as Freddie Denmark | 1953-10-29 |
| Down Among the Sheltering Palms as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt | 1953-03-01 |
| Tonight We Sing as Sol Hurok | 1953-01-26 |
| The I Don't Care Girl as Ed McCoy | 1953-01-14 |
| O. Henry's Full House as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") | 1952-08-07 |
| We're Not Married! as Jeff Norris | 1952-07-11 |
| Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie as Ben Halper | 1952-06-27 |
| With a Song in My Heart as Don Ross | 1952-04-03 |
| As Young as You Feel as Joe Elliott | 1951-06-15 |
| Up Front as Joe | 1951-03-05 |
| M as Martin W. Harrow | 1951-03-01 |
| My Blue Heaven as Walter Pringle | 1950-09-15 |
| Stella as Carl Granger | 1950-07-20 |
| The Reformer and the Redhead as Arthur Maxwell | 1950-05-05 |
| Adam's Rib as Kip Lurie | 1949-11-18 |
| Portrait of Jennie as Gus O'Toole | 1948-12-25 |
| Ditch and Live as Pilot of Ditching B-17 | 1944-01-01 |
