David Wayne

Personal Info

Birthday

January 30, 1914

Day of Death

1995-02-09

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Traverse City - Michigan - USA

Also Known As

Wayne James McMeekan

David Wayne

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.

Known For

Dallas

Murder, She Wrote

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Batman

The Twilight Zone

Barney Miller

Hawaii Five-O

Ironside

Filmography

2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
1987
Poker Alice
as Amos
The Survivalist
as Dub Daniels
1986
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage)
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
as Narrator (voice)
1984
Finders Keepers
as Stapleton
1979
An American Christmas Carol
as Merrivale
The Prize Fighter
as Pop Morgan
The Girls in the Office
as Ben Nayfack
1978
The Gift of Love
as O'Henry and Narrator
Lassie: The New Beginning
as Amos
Murder at the Mardi Gras
as Mickey Mills
Loose Change
as Dr. Moe Sinden
1977
In the Glitter Palace
as Nate Redstone
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as T.R. Clydesdale
Tubby the Tuba
as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
as Insp. Richard Queen
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
1974
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Maynard Richards
The Front Page
as Roy Bensinger
Return of the Big Cat
as Grandpa Jubal
Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
1972
The Catcher
as Armand Faber
1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as David Wayne (uncredited)
The African Elephant
as Narrator
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charles Dutton
1970
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
as Colonel Rufus Ryder
1969
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Teddy Brewster
1963
Marilyn
as Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
The Big Gamble
as Samuel Brennan
1959
The Last Angry Man
as Woodrow Thrasher
1957
The Three Faces of Eve
as Ralph White
The Sad Sack
as Corporal Larry Dolan
1956
The Naked Hills
as Tracy Powell
1955
The Tender Trap
as Joe McCall
1954
Hell and High Water
as Tugboat Walker
1953
How to Marry a Millionaire
as Freddie Denmark
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
Tonight We Sing
as Sol Hurok
The I Don't Care Girl
as Ed McCoy
1952
O. Henry's Full House
as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
We're Not Married!
as Jeff Norris
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
as Ben Halper
With a Song in My Heart
as Don Ross
1951
As Young as You Feel
as Joe Elliott
Up Front
as Joe
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as Martin W. Harrow
1950
My Blue Heaven
as Walter Pringle
Stella
as Carl Granger
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Arthur Maxwell
1949
Adam's Rib
as Kip Lurie
1948
Portrait of Jennie
as Gus O'Toole
1944
Ditch and Live
as Pilot of Ditching B-17