Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 04, 1913
Died
Dec 31, 1996
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Credits
50 titles
Wesley Addy
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Modern Affair
Ed Rhodes
Before and After
Judge Grady
Hiroshima
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Hiroshima
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
The Bostonians
Dr. Tarrant
Loving
Cabot Alden
Rage of Angels
Abner Parker
The Verdict
Dr. Towler
American Playhouse
Mr. Wentworth
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Connecticut Minister
The Europeans
Mr. Wentworth
Tail Gunner Joe
Middleton
The Andros Targets
General Graves
Network
Nelson Chaney
The Adams Chronicles
Andrew Jackson
The Rockford Files
Agent Steiner
The Grissom Gang
John P. Blandish
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
Medical Center
Ironside
The Invaders
Tomkins
Seconds
John
The Rat Patrol
Colonel Leske
Mister Buddwing
Dice Player
The F.B.I.
U.S. Attorney Cline
I Spy
Hubbard
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Sheriff Standish
Profiles in Courage
Hellinger
4 for Texas
Winthrop Trowbridge
The Fugitive
Homer Price
The Outer Limits
Dr. Rahm
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Marty McDonald
The Defenders
Dr. Simons
John Brown's Raid
Col. Lewis Washington
Ten Seconds to Hell
Wolfgang Sulke
Perry Mason
Alton Brent
The Garment Jungle
Mr. Paul
The Edge of Night
Time Table
Dr. Paul Brucker
The Big Knife
Horatio "Hank" Teagle
Kiss Me Deadly
Lt. Pat Murphy
King Lear
King of France
The Other Wise Man
Omnibus
King of France
Hallmark Hall of Fame
James Monroe
The First Legion
Father John Fulton
Suspense
Studio One
McAllister
Ford Theatre
Prof. Allen Carr
The Philco Television Playhouse