
Don Beddoe
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years. After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory. Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy! Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films. Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s. Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again. During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.

A Bewitched Christmas
Santa Claus

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self (archive footage)

Nickel Mountain
Doc Cathey

Our Town
Constable Warren

How Do I Love Thee?
Dr. Littlefield

Generation
Gilbert

The Impossible Years
Dr. Elliot Fish

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Ragle

Texas Across the River
Mr. Naylor

A Very Special Favor
Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)

Kilroy
Commissioner

For Love or Money
Milo

Papa's Delicate Condition
Mayor Ghio's assistant

Jack the Giant Killer
Imp

Saintly Sinners
Father Dan Sheridan

Boy Who Caught a Crook
Colonel

Pillow Talk
Mr. Walters

Warlock
Doctor Wagner

Bullwhip
Judge Carr

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
David Cooper

The Joker is Wild
Heckler at the Copacabana (uncredited)

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Mayor Sam Pelley

Invitation to a Gunfighter
McKeever

The Rawhide Years
Frank Porter

Behind the High Wall
Todd 'Mac' MacGregor

The Killer Is Loose
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)

The Miracle on 34th Street
Mr. Macy

The Night of the Hunter
Walt Spoon

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Johnson

The Steel Cage
Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"

A Star Is Born
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
A Fair Chance
Mr. Wilson

Jubilee Trail
Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)

River of No Return
Ben (uncredited)

Loophole
Herman Tate

Wyoming Renegades
Banker Horace Warren

The Band Wagon
Producer (uncredited)

Cow Country
Joe Davis

The System
Jerry Allen

The Clown
Gallagher

Stop, You're Killing Me
Clyde Post

Blue Canadian Rockies
Cyrus Higbee

The Iron Mistress
Dr. Cuny

Don't Bother to Knock
Mr. Ballew

Carrie
Mr. Goodman

Carson City
Charles Crocker

The Narrow Margin
Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes

Hoodlum Empire
Sen. Blake

Scandal Sheet
Pete (uncredited)

Room for One More
Mr. Taylor (uncredited)

Man in the Saddle
Love Bidwell (uncredited)

The Unknown Man
Fingerprint Man

The Racket
Mitchell (uncredited)

Behave Yourself!
Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)

Corky of Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet

Rodeo King and the Senorita
Mr. Richards
The Bogus Green
Alonzo

Million Dollar Pursuit
Bowen

The Enforcer
Thomas O'Hara

The Company She Keeps
Jamieson

Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet

Blades of the Musketeers
King Louis XIII

Southside 1-1000
Slade

Cyrano de Bergerac
The Meddler

Emergency Wedding
Forbish - Floorwalker

Beyond the Purple Hills
Amos Rayburn

Caged
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)

Young Daniel Boone
Charlie Bryan

The Great Rupert
Mr. Haggerty

Tarnished
Curtis Jellison

Gun Crazy
Chicago Man (uncredited)

Woman in Hiding
Fat Salesman

Dancing in the Dark
Barney Bassett

Easy Living
Jaeger

Flame of Youth
George Briggs

Once More, My Darling
Judge Fraser

The Lady Gambles
Mr. Dennis Sutherland

Bride of Vengeance
Councillor

The Crime Doctor's Diary
Phillip Bellem

Hideout
Dr. Hamilton Gibbs

Another Part of the Forest
Penniman

Black Bart
J.T. Hall

If You Knew Susie
Editor (uncredited)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Joey

They Won't Believe Me
Thomason

Welcome Stranger
Mort Elkins

Blaze of Noon
Mr. Fell

Buck Privates Come Home
Mr. Roberts (State Department)

California
Stark (uncredited)

The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Cameron

Calcutta
Jack Collins (uncredited)

O.S.S.
Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse

The Well Groomed Bride
Mr. Beatley

Behind Green Lights
Yager

The Notorious Lone Wolf
Stonley

Getting Gertie's Garter
Clancy

Midnight Manhunt
Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley

Crime, Inc.
Deputy District Attorney Dixon

Winged Victory
Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)

Power of the Press
Pringle (uncredited)

Junior Army
Saginaw Jake

The Boogie Man Will Get You
J. Gilbert Brampton

Smith of Minnesota
Lew Smith

Lucky Legs
Ned McLane

Sabotage Squad
Police Inspector Hanley

The Talk of the Town
Police Chief

Meet the Stewarts
Taxi Driver

Not a Ladies' Man
'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson

Shut My Big Mouth
Hill

Harvard Here I Come
Hypo McGonigle

Honolulu Lu
Bennie Blanchard

Sing for Your Supper
Wing Boley

Unholy Partners
Mike Reynolds

The Blonde from Singapore
Sgt. Burns

Texas
Sheriff

Two Latins from Manhattan
Don Barlow

Sweetheart of the Campus
Sheriff Denby

They Dare Not Love
Second Sailor

She Knew All the Answers
Barber

The Big Boss
Cliff Randall

Under Age
Albert Ward
Black Eyes and Blues
Phineas Q. Potts

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Sheriff Haggerty

The Face Behind the Mask
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara

This Thing Called Love
Tom Howland

The Phantom Submarine
Bartlett

Beyond the Sacramento
Warden McKay

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Big Joe Brady

West of Abilene
Forsyth

So You Won't Talk?
Cop

Glamour for Sale
Frank Regan

The Spook Speaks
Newlywed husband

Before I Hang
Capt. McGraw

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Process Server

The Secret Seven
Maj. Blaine

Military Academy
Marty Lewis

Girls of the Road
Sheriff

Manhattan Heartbeat
Preston

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Police Doctor

Texas Stagecoach
Tug Wilson

Escape to Glory
Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson

Men Without Souls
Warden Schafer

Island of Doomed Men
Brand

The Man from Tumbleweeds
Governor Dawson

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Frederick Ross

The Doctor Takes a Wife
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)

Blondie on a Budget
Marvin Williams

The Heckler
Green Sox Manager (uncredited)

Convicted Woman
Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)

The Lone Wolf Strikes
Inspector Conroy

You Nazty Spy!
Mr. Amscray (uncredited)

Cafe Hostess
Customer

Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond

My Son Is Guilty
Duke Mason

The Awful Goof
Drunk (uncredited)

Three Sappy People
Rumsford

The Amazing Mr. Williams
Detective Deever

Beware Spooks!
Nick Bruno

Scandal Sheet
Chick Keller

Those High Grey Walls
Jockey

Golden Boy
Borneo

Konga, the Wild Stallion
Fred Martin

The Man They Could Not Hang
Lieutenant Shane

Coast Guard
Bartender (uncredited)

Good Girls Go to Paris
Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)

Missing Daughters
Al Farrow

Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond

Union Pacific
Reporter (uncredited)

Outside These Walls
Dinky

Romance of the Redwoods
Forbes

Blondie Meets the Boss
Marvin Williams

Flying G-Men
W. S. Hamilton

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Police Inspector Thomas

There's That Woman Again
Johnson







