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Wesley Addy
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, usually opposite actor M…
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Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, usually opposite actor Maurice Evans. After playing two roles in one of Evans's productions of Hamlet, he played Horatio opposite Evans's Hamlet in a 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the work, the most prestigious American production of the play seen on TV up to that time. Also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. Later, during the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryan's Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. In motion pictures, Addy's career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in several pictures, such as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) and The Grissom Gang (1971). In 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work together again in The Verdict., in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newman's case against a hospital for malpractice. Another of Addy's best-remembered roles was that of Lt. Cdr. Alvin Kramer, who unsuccessfully tries to warn American officials of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora!. Addy was born as Robert Wesley Addy in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Danbury, Connecticut. He was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1996
A Modern Affair
Movie Ed Rhodes
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1996
Before and After
Movie Judge Grady
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1995
Hiroshima
TV show Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
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1995
Hiroshima
Movie Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
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1984
The Bostonians
Movie Dr. Tarrant
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1983
Loving
Movie Cabot Alden
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1983
Rage of Angels
TV show Abner Parker
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1982
The Verdict
Movie Dr. Towler
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Mr. Wentworth
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1981
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Movie Connecticut Minister
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1979
The Europeans
Movie Mr. Wentworth
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1977
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie Middleton
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1977
The Andros Targets
TV show General Graves
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1976
Network
Movie Nelson Chaney
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1976
The Adams Chronicles
TV show Andrew Jackson
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1974
The Rockford Files
TV show Agent Steiner
More credits
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1971
The Grissom Gang
Movie John P. Blandish
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1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
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1969
Medical Center
TV show
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1967
Ironside
TV show
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1967
The Invaders
TV show Tomkins
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1966
Seconds
Movie John
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1966
The Rat Patrol
TV show Colonel Leske
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1966
Mister Buddwing
Movie Dice Player
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show U.S. Attorney Cline
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1965
I Spy
TV show Hubbard
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1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie Sheriff Standish
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1964
Profiles in Courage
TV show Hellinger
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1963
4 for Texas
Movie Winthrop Trowbridge
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Homer Price
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1963
The Outer Limits
TV show Dr. Rahm
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1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie Marty McDonald
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1961
The Defenders
TV show Dr. Simons
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1960
John Brown's Raid
Movie Col. Lewis Washington
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1959
Ten Seconds to Hell
Movie Wolfgang Sulke
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Alton Brent
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1957
The Garment Jungle
Movie Mr. Paul
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1956
The Edge of Night
TV show
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1956
Time Table
Movie Dr. Paul Brucker
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1955
The Big Knife
Movie Horatio "Hank" Teagle
