David Wayne
ActingAlso Known As
Wayne James McMeekan
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.
Movies
(53 total)
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charles Dutton
How to Marry a Millionaire
as Freddie Denmark
The Front Page
as Roy Bensinger
Adam's Rib
as Kip Lurie
The Three Faces of Eve
as Ralph White
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as T.R. Clydesdale
Portrait of Jennie
as Gus O'Toole
Hell and High Water
as Tugboat Walker
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as Martin W. Harrow
O. Henry's Full House
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
The Tender Trap
as Joe McCall
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
An American Christmas Carol
as Merrivale
Finders Keepers
as Stapleton
The Sad Sack
as Corporal Larry Dolan
We're Not Married!
as Jeff Norris
As Young as You Feel
as Joe Elliott
With a Song in My Heart
as Don Ross
Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
The Last Angry Man
as Woodrow Thrasher
TV Shows
(63 total)
The Twilight Zone
as Walter Bedeker
Batman
as The Mad Hatter
Murder, She Wrote
as Cyrus Leffingwell
The Golden Girls
as Big Daddy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Jacoby
Dallas
as Digger Barnes
Dallas
as Willard 'Digger' Barnes
Hawaii Five-O
as Monsieur Bordeaux
Gunsmoke
as Judge Warfield
Gunsmoke
as Rev. Arthur Byrne
Night Gallery
as Dr. Mill
The Streets of San Francisco
as Wally Sensibaugh
St. Elsewhere
as George Wyler
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Andrew Anderson
Ironside
as Dr. Ian Rice
Barney Miller
as E.J. Heiss
Newhart
as Mr. Pittman
Ellery Queen
as Inspector Richard Queen
