David Wayne
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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
Credits
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
as Dr. Charles Dutton
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
as Freddie Denmark
The Front Page (1974)
as Roy Bensinger
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
as T.R. Clydesdale
Lassie: The New Beginning (1978)
as Amos
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
as Gus O'Toole
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
as Ralph White
Adam's Rib (1949)
as Kip Lurie
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Finders Keepers (1984)
as Stapleton
Poker Alice (1987)
as Amos
Hell and High Water (1954)
as Tugboat Walker
We're Not Married! (1952)
as Jeff Norris
As Young as You Feel (1951)
as Joe Elliott
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
An American Christmas Carol (1979)
as Merrivale
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
The Tender Trap (1955)
as Joe McCall
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
M (1951)
as Martin W. Harrow
My Blue Heaven (1950)
as Walter Pringle
Huckleberry Finn (1974)
as The Duke
The Sad Sack (1957)
as Corporal Larry Dolan
Sunday Showcase (1959)
Actor
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974)
as Maynard Richards
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Teddy Brewster
Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)
as David Wayne (uncredited)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! (1975)
as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
The Naked Hills (1956)
as Tracy Powell
The Big Gamble (1961)
as Samuel Brennan
Marilyn (1963)
as archive footage
The Gift of Love (1978)
as O'Henry and Narrator
Ditch and Live (1944)
as Pilot of Ditching B-17
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
as Nate Redstone
Anatomy of an Accident (1961)
as John Avery
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970)
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
The Girls in the Office (1979)
as Ben Nayfack
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
as Don Ross
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
as Arthur Maxwell
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects (1975)
as Insp. Richard Queen
The Prize Fighter (1979)
as Pop Morgan
The Last Angry Man (1959)
as Woodrow Thrasher
Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978)
as Mickey Mills
Up Front (1951)
as Joe
Tubby the Tuba (1975)
as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
The Jet-Propelled Couch (1957)
as Dr. Kirk Allen
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
The I Don't Care Girl (1953)
as Ed McCoy
The Catcher (1972)
as Armand Faber
Return of the Big Cat (1974)
as Grandpa Jubal
Stella (1950)
as Carl Granger
The Survivalist (1987)
as Dub Daniels
Tonight We Sing (1953)
as Sol Hurok
The African Elephant (1971)
as Narrator
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
as Ben Halper
With These Hands (1970)
as Narrator
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen (1986)
as Narrator (voice)