David Wayne
Actor
Born January 30, 1914 in Traverse City - Michigan - USA
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).
Filmography
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Poker Alice
Amos
The Survivalist
Dub Daniels
The Golden Girls
Big Daddy
Crazy like a Fox
Jennings Hyde
Murder, She Wrote
Cyrus Leffingwell
Finder of Lost Loves
Professor Wheeler
Finders Keepers
Stapleton
St. Elsewhere
George Wyler
Newhart
Mr. Pittman
Matt Houston
House Calls
Amos Weatherby
An American Christmas Carol
Merrivale
The Prize Fighter
Pop Morgan
The Girls in the Office
Ben Nayfack
The Gift of Love
O'Henry and Narrator
Lassie: The New Beginning
Amos
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Mickey Mills
Dallas
Digger Barnes
Big Hawaii
Eight Is Enough
In the Glitter Palace
Nate Redstone
Hunter
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Once an Eagle
Col. Terwilliger
Delvecchio
Jack Henderson
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Ellery Queen
Inspector Richard Queen
Switch
Dancer
The Apple Dumpling Gang
T.R. Clydesdale
Tubby the Tuba
Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Insp. Richard Queen
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Dr. Abner Sedgwick
Barney Miller
E.J. Heiss
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Maynard Richards
The Front Page
Roy Bensinger
Return of the Big Cat
Grandpa Jubal
Huckleberry Finn
The Duke
Faraday and Company
Branigan
Barnaby Jones
Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
The Streets of San Francisco
Wally Sensibaugh
The Brian Keith Show
Banacek
Walter Tyson
The Catcher
Armand Faber
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
David Wayne (uncredited)
The African Elephant
Narrator
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Charles Dutton
Night Gallery
Dr. Mill
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Colonel Rufus Ryder
Arsenic and Old Lace
Teddy Brewster
Hawaii Five-O
Monsieur Bordeaux
The Name of the Game
Emory Ward
Mannix
Ironside
Dr. Ian Rice
Batman
The Mad Hatter
Burke's Law
Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
Channing
Dr. James Crown
Marilyn
archive footage
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Andrew Anderson
The Virginian
Martin Reese
Sam Benedict
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Big Gamble
Samuel Brennan
Anatomy of an Accident
John Avery
Route 66
Outlaws
The Last Angry Man
Woodrow Thrasher
The Twilight Zone
Walter Bedeker
Sunday Showcase
Naked City
Herbert Konish
The Three Faces of Eve
Ralph White
The Sad Sack
Corporal Larry Dolan
Suspicion
James Mennick
DuPont Show of the Month
Willis Reynolds
The Naked Hills
Tracy Powell
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer
The Tender Trap
Joe McCall
The Alcoa Hour
Homer Bolton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Jacoby
Gunsmoke
Judge Warfield
The Wonderful World of Disney
Grandpa Jubal
Hell and High Water
Tugboat Walker
How to Marry a Millionaire
Freddie Denmark
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
General Electric Theater
David Vincent
Tonight We Sing
Sol Hurok
The I Don't Care Girl
Ed McCoy
Omnibus
O. Henry's Full House
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
We're Not Married!
Jeff Norris
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Ben Halper
With a Song in My Heart
Don Ross
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sakini
As Young as You Feel
Joe Elliott
Up Front
Joe
M
Martin W. Harrow
My Blue Heaven
Walter Pringle
Stella
Carl Granger
The Reformer and the Redhead
Arthur Maxwell
What's My Line?
Self
Adam's Rib
Kip Lurie
Portrait of Jennie
Gus O'Toole
Studio One
Jasper Hornby
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self