Cast
David Wayne
Acting
Cast
David Wayne
Known for
Acting
Born
1914-01-30
From
Traverse City - Michigan - USA
Died
1995-02-09
Also 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.
★7.1
MOVIE1971
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charles Dutton
★5.5
MOVIE1978
Lassie: The New Beginning
as Amos
★6.8
MOVIE1953
How to Marry a Millionaire
as Freddie Denmark
★6.6
MOVIE1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as T.R. Clydesdale
★7.2
MOVIE1948
Portrait of Jennie
as Gus O'Toole
★6.2
MOVIE1955
The Tender Trap
as Joe McCall
★7.5
MOVIE1950
My Blue Heaven
as Walter Pringle
MOVIE1959
Sunday Showcase
★7.0
MOVIE1969
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Teddy Brewster
★6.9
MOVIE1952
O. Henry's Full House
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
★6.0
MOVIE1974
Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
★6.0
MOVIE1954
Hell and High Water
as Tugboat Walker
★7.2
MOVIE1957
The Three Faces of Eve
as Ralph White
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Anatomy of an Accident
as John Avery
★7.3
MOVIE1974
The Front Page
as Roy Bensinger
★7.0
MOVIE1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
★7.1
MOVIE1949
Adam's Rib
as Kip Lurie
★5.9
MOVIE1952
We're Not Married!
as Jeff Norris
★4.0
MOVIE1977
In the Glitter Palace
as Nate Redstone
★6.5
MOVIE1951
M
as Martin W. Harrow
★6.9
MOVIE1987
Poker Alice
as Amos
★8.0
MOVIE1975
Tubby the Tuba
as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
★5.4
MOVIE1984
Finders Keepers
as Stapleton
★6.4
MOVIE1951
As Young as You Feel
as Joe Elliott
★5.7
MOVIE1957
The Sad Sack
as Corporal Larry Dolan
★6.0
MOVIE1961
The Big Gamble
as Samuel Brennan
★8.0
MOVIE1975
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
as Insp. Richard Queen
★6.9
MOVIE1959
The Last Angry Man
as Woodrow Thrasher
★6.7
MOVIE1978
The Gift of Love
as O'Henry and Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE1979
The Girls in the Office
as Ben Nayfack
★4.6
MOVIE1956
The Naked Hills
as Tracy Powell
MOVIE1944
Ditch and Live
as Pilot of Ditching B-17
★7.6
MOVIE1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Arthur Maxwell
★7.2
MOVIE2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
★4.8
MOVIE1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as David Wayne (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1974
Return of the Big Cat
as Grandpa Jubal
★7.3
MOVIE1953
The I Don't Care Girl
as Ed McCoy
★4.8
MOVIE1979
The Prize Fighter
as Pop Morgan
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Up Front
as Joe
★4.4
MOVIE1975
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
★7.5
MOVIE1963
Marilyn
as archive footage
★6.2
MOVIE1979
An American Christmas Carol
as Merrivale
MOVIE1970
With These Hands
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1978
Murder at the Mardi Gras
as Mickey Mills
★6.5
MOVIE1953
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
★3.3
MOVIE1987
The Survivalist
as Dub Daniels
★6.1
MOVIE1952
With a Song in My Heart
as Don Ross
★8.0
MOVIE1974
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Maynard Richards
★9.5
MOVIE1953
Tonight We Sing
as Sol Hurok
★7.0
MOVIE1972
The Catcher
as Armand Faber
★4.0
MOVIE1970
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
★5.8
MOVIE1952
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
as Ben Halper
★9.0
MOVIE1971
The African Elephant
as Narrator
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Stella
as Carl Granger
MOVIE1986
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
as Narrator (voice)