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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 30, 1914
Died
February 9, 1995
Place of Birth
Traverse City - Michigan - USA
Also Known As
- Wayne James McMeekan
David Wayne
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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
7.2
Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
6.3
Amos
Poker Alice
1987
2.4
Dub Daniels
The Survivalist
1987
🎬
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
1986
7.6
Big Daddy
The Golden Girls
1985
7.1
Jennings Hyde
Crazy like a Fox
1984
7.5
Cyrus Leffingwell
Murder, She Wrote
1984
5.7
Professor Wheeler
Finder of Lost Loves
1984
5.3
Stapleton
Finders Keepers
1984
5.6
George Wyler
St. Elsewhere
1982
Credits
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
2005
7.2
Poker Alice
as Amos
1987
6.3
The Survivalist
as Dub Daniels
1987
2.4
🎬
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
as Narrator (voice)
1986
0.0
The Golden Girls
as Big Daddy
1985
7.6
Crazy like a Fox
as Jennings Hyde
1984
7.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Cyrus Leffingwell
1984
7.5
Finder of Lost Loves
as Professor Wheeler
1984
5.7
Finders Keepers
as Stapleton
1984
5.3
St. Elsewhere
as George Wyler
1982
5.6
Newhart
as Mr. Pittman
1982
7.1
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Matt Houston
as Bill Houston
1982
6.2
House Calls
as Amos Weatherby
1979
5.0
An American Christmas Carol
as Merrivale
1979
6.2
The Prize Fighter
as Pop Morgan
1979
4.8
The Girls in the Office
as Ben Nayfack
1979
2.0
The Gift of Love
as O'Henry and Narrator
1978
6.0
Lassie: The New Beginning
as Amos
1978
4.8
Murder at the Mardi Gras
as Mickey Mills
1978
0.0
Dallas
as Digger Barnes
1978
6.8
Dallas
as Willard 'Digger' Barnes
1978
6.8
Loose Change
as Dr. Moe Sinden
1978
0.0
Big Hawaii
1977
5.0
Eight Is Enough
1977
6.1
In the Glitter Palace
as Nate Redstone
1977
2.7
Hunter
1977
8.0
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
7.1
Once an Eagle
as Col. Terwilliger
1976
6.8
Delvecchio
as Jack Henderson
1976
0.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
Ellery Queen
as Inspector Richard Queen
1975
7.4
Switch
as Dancer
1975
6.7
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as T.R. Clydesdale
1975
6.6
Tubby the Tuba
as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
1975
0.0
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
as Insp. Richard Queen
1975
0.0
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
1975
4.0
Barney Miller
as E.J. Heiss
1975
7.3
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Maynard Richards
1974
0.0
The Front Page
as Roy Bensinger
1974
7.3
Return of the Big Cat
as Grandpa Jubal
1974
0.0
Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
1974
5.9
Barnaby Jones
as Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
1973
6.9
The Streets of San Francisco
as Wally Sensibaugh
1972
7.0
The Brian Keith Show
1972
5.0
Banacek
as Walter Tyson
1972
8.6
The Catcher
as Armand Faber
1972
6.0
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as David Wayne (uncredited)
1971
4.3
The African Elephant
as Narrator
1971
0.0
🎬
The Good Life
as Charles Dutton
1971
5.0
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charles Dutton
1971
7.0
Night Gallery
as Dr. Mill
1970
7.8
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
1970
4.0
🎬
With These Hands
as Narrator
1970
0.0
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Teddy Brewster
1969
7.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Monsieur Bordeaux
1968
7.1
The Name of the Game
as Emory Ward
1968
6.8
Mannix
1967
6.7
Ironside
as Dr. Ian Rice
1967
6.8
🎬
CBS Playhouse
1966
7.0
Batman
as The Mad Hatter
1966
7.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as George Holloway
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
1963
6.0
Channing
as Dr. James Crown
1963
7.0
Marilyn
as Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
6.0
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Andrew Anderson
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Martin Reese
1962
6.4
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Big Gamble
as Samuel Brennan
1961
5.7
Anatomy of an Accident
as John Avery
1961
0.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
Outlaws
1960
6.2
The Last Angry Man
as Woodrow Thrasher
1959
6.9
The Twilight Zone
as Walter Bedeker
1959
8.5
🎬
NBC Sunday Showcase
as The Devil
1959
4.3
Naked City
as Herbert Konish
1958
5.5
The Three Faces of Eve
as Ralph White
1957
7.2
The Sad Sack
as Corporal Larry Dolan
1957
5.6
Suspicion
as James Mennick
1957
5.9
DuPont Show of the Month
as Willis Reynolds
1957
6.8
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
The Naked Hills
as Tracy Powell
1956
4.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9
The Tender Trap
as Joe McCall
1955
6.1
The Alcoa Hour
as Homer Bolton
1955
4.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Jacoby
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Judge Warfield
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Rev. Arthur Byrne
1955
6.6
🎬
Norby
as Preston Norby
1955
0.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Grandpa Jubal
1954
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
1954
7.8
Hell and High Water
as Tugboat Walker
1954
6.1
How to Marry a Millionaire
as Freddie Denmark
1953
6.8
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
1953
5.0
General Electric Theater
as David Vincent
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Arthur Martin
1953
6.4
Tonight We Sing
as Sol Hurok
1953
10.0
The I Don't Care Girl
as Ed McCoy
1953
6.5
Omnibus
1952
6.0
O. Henry's Full House
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1952
6.7
We're Not Married!
as Jeff Norris
1952
5.8
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
as Ben Halper
1952
5.4
With a Song in My Heart
as Don Ross
1952
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sakini
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Father Firenzuola
1951
8.6
As Young as You Feel
as Joe Elliott
1951
6.3
Up Front
as Joe
1951
0.0
M
as Martin W. Harrow
1951
6.4
My Blue Heaven
as Walter Pringle
1950
7.0
Stella
as Carl Granger
1950
0.0
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Arthur Maxwell
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Adam's Rib
as Kip Lurie
1949
7.1
Portrait of Jennie
as Gus O'Toole
1948
7.1
Studio One
as Jasper Hornby
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
🎬
Ditch and Live
as Pilot of Ditching B-17
1944
0.0