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David Wayne
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, th…
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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.
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2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
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1987
Poker Alice
Movie Amos
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1987
The Survivalist
Movie Dub Daniels
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1986
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1985
The Golden Girls
TV show Big Daddy
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1984
Crazy like a Fox
TV show Jennings Hyde
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Cyrus Leffingwell
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1984
Finder of Lost Loves
TV show Professor Wheeler
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1984
Finders Keepers
Movie Stapleton
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1982
St. Elsewhere
TV show George Wyler
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1982
Newhart
TV show Mr. Pittman
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1982
Matt Houston
TV show
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1979
House Calls
TV show Amos Weatherby
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1979
An American Christmas Carol
Movie Merrivale
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1979
The Prize Fighter
Movie Pop Morgan
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1979
The Girls in the Office
Movie Ben Nayfack
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1978
The Gift of Love
Movie O'Henry and Narrator
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1978
Lassie: The New Beginning
Movie Amos
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1978
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Movie Mickey Mills
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1978
Dallas
TV show Digger Barnes
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1977
Big Hawaii
TV show
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1977
Eight Is Enough
TV show
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1977
In the Glitter Palace
Movie Nate Redstone
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1977
Hunter
TV show
- 1977
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1976
Once an Eagle
TV show Col. Terwilliger
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1976
Delvecchio
TV show Jack Henderson
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1975
Ellery Queen
TV show Inspector Richard Queen
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1975
Switch
TV show Dancer
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1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie T.R. Clydesdale
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1975
Tubby the Tuba
Movie Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
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1975
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Movie Insp. Richard Queen
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1975
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Movie Dr. Abner Sedgwick
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1975
Barney Miller
TV show E.J. Heiss
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1974
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Movie Maynard Richards
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1974
The Front Page
Movie Roy Bensinger
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1974
Return of the Big Cat
Movie Grandpa Jubal
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1974
Huckleberry Finn
Movie The Duke
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1973
Faraday and Company
TV show Branigan
