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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).
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.
Movies
The Front Page
Roy Bensinger
How to Marry a Millionaire
Freddie Denmark
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Charles Dutton
Finders Keepers
Stapleton
Hell and High Water
Tugboat Walker
We're Not Married!
Jeff Norris
The Prize Fighter
Pop Morgan
Adam's Rib
Kip Lurie
Portrait of Jennie
Gus O'Toole
The Three Faces of Eve
Ralph White
M
Martin W. Harrow
The Sad Sack
Corporal Larry Dolan
The Tender Trap
Joe McCall
The Reformer and the Redhead
Arthur Maxwell
As Young as You Feel
Joe Elliott
With a Song in My Heart
Don Ross
The Apple Dumpling Gang
T.R. Clydesdale
Huckleberry Finn
The Duke
My Blue Heaven
Walter Pringle
Tonight We Sing
Sol Hurok
The Last Angry Man
Woodrow Thrasher
The Naked Hills
Tracy Powell
The Gift of Love
O'Henry and Narrator
Poker Alice
Amos
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
Stella
Carl Granger
Up Front
Joe
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Ben Halper
The I Don't Care Girl
Ed McCoy
The Big Gamble
Samuel Brennan
O. Henry's Full House
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Tubby the Tuba
Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
The African Elephant
Narrator
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Mickey Mills
The Girls in the Office
Ben Nayfack
In the Glitter Palace
Nate Redstone
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Dr. Abner Sedgwick
Marilyn
Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Teddy Brewster
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Ditch and Live
Pilot of Ditching B-17
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Colonel Rufus Ryder
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
David Wayne (uncredited)
The Catcher
Armand Faber
An American Christmas Carol
Merrivale
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Maynard Richards
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage)
The Survivalist
Dub Daniels
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Insp. Richard Queen
Loose Change
Dr. Moe Sinden
Lassie: The New Beginning
Amos
Shows
The Golden Girls
Big Daddy
Mannix
Newhart
Mr. Pittman
Gunsmoke
Judge Warfield
Naked City
Herbert Konish
Night Gallery
Eight Is Enough
General Electric Theater
David Vincent
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sakini
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Jacoby
Outlaws
House Calls
Amos Weatherby
St. Elsewhere
Burke's Law
Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
Route 66
Batman
The Mad Hatter
Hawaii Five-O
Monsieur Bordeaux
The Streets of San Francisco
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Omnibus
Studio One
Jasper Hornby
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Twilight Zone
Walter Bedeker
Crazy like a Fox
Jennings Hyde
Sam Benedict
Switch
Dancer
The Virginian
Martin Reese
Matt Houston
The Brian Keith Show
CBS Playhouse
Norby
Preston Norby
Big Hawaii
Hunter
The Good Life
Charles Dutton
Ellery Queen
Inspector Richard Queen
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer
Tony Awards
Self - Performer
Dallas
Willard 'Digger' Barnes
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist
Barnaby Jones
Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
Suspicion
James Mennick
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Andrew Anderson
Murder, She Wrote
Cyrus Leffingwell
Dallas
Digger Barnes
Channing
Dr. James Crown
Gunsmoke
Rev. Arthur Byrne
General Electric Theater
Arthur Martin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Father Firenzuola
The Alcoa Hour
Homer Bolton
DuPont Show of the Month
Willis Reynolds
Finder of Lost Loves
Professor Wheeler
Barney Miller
E.J. Heiss
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
NBC Sunday Showcase
The Devil
Delvecchio
Jack Henderson
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
Banacek
Walter Tyson
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Grandpa Jubal
Matt Houston
Bill Houston
Ironside
Dr. Ian Rice
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
George Holloway