Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 30, 1914
Died
Feb 09, 1995
Place of Birth
Traverse City - Michigan - USA
Credits
114 titles
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. 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.
Known For
Filmography
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Poker Alice
Amos
The Survivalist
Dub Daniels
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
Narrator (voice)
The Golden Girls
Big Daddy
Crazy like a Fox
Jennings Hyde
Murder, She Wrote
Cyrus Leffingwell
Finder of Lost Loves
Professor Wheeler
Finders Keepers
Stapleton
St. Elsewhere
George Wyler
Newhart
Mr. Pittman
Matt Houston
House Calls
Amos Weatherby
An American Christmas Carol
Merrivale
The Prize Fighter
Pop Morgan
The Girls in the Office
Ben Nayfack
The Gift of Love
O'Henry and Narrator
Lassie: The New Beginning
Amos
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Mickey Mills
Dallas
Digger Barnes
Big Hawaii
Eight Is Enough
In the Glitter Palace
Nate Redstone
Hunter
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Once an Eagle
Col. Terwilliger
Delvecchio
Jack Henderson
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Ellery Queen
Inspector Richard Queen
Switch
Dancer
The Apple Dumpling Gang
T.R. Clydesdale
Tubby the Tuba
Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Insp. Richard Queen
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Dr. Abner Sedgwick
Barney Miller
E.J. Heiss
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Maynard Richards
The Front Page
Roy Bensinger
Return of the Big Cat
Grandpa Jubal
Huckleberry Finn
The Duke
Faraday and Company
Branigan
Barnaby Jones
Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
The Streets of San Francisco
Wally Sensibaugh
The Brian Keith Show
Banacek
Walter Tyson
The Catcher
Armand Faber
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
David Wayne (uncredited)
The African Elephant
Narrator
The Good Life
Charles Dutton
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Charles Dutton
Night Gallery
Dr. Mill