David Wayne
Acting
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.
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)
Finders Keepers
Stapleton
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
In the Glitter Palace
Nate Redstone
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
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
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
The Catcher
Armand Faber
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
David Wayne (uncredited)
The African Elephant
Narrator
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Charles Dutton
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Colonel Rufus Ryder
With These Hands
Narrator
Arsenic and Old Lace
Teddy Brewster
The Big Gamble
Samuel Brennan
Anatomy of an Accident
John Avery
The Last Angry Man
Woodrow Thrasher
The Three Faces of Eve
Ralph White
The Sad Sack
Corporal Larry Dolan
The Naked Hills
Tracy Powell
The Tender Trap
Joe McCall
Hell and High Water
Tugboat Walker
How to Marry a Millionaire
Freddie Denmark
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
Tonight We Sing
Sol Hurok
The I Don't Care Girl
Ed McCoy
O. Henry's Full House
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
We're Not Married!
Jeff Norris
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Ben Halper
With a Song in My Heart
Don Ross
As Young as You Feel
Joe Elliott
Up Front
Joe
M
Martin W. Harrow
My Blue Heaven
Walter Pringle
Stella
Carl Granger
The Reformer and the Redhead
Arthur Maxwell
Adam's Rib
Kip Lurie
Portrait of Jennie
Gus O'Toole
Ditch and Live
Pilot of Ditching B-17