Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1914-01-30
- Day of Death1995-02-09 (81 years)
- Place of BirthTraverse City - Michigan - USA
- Also Known AsWayne 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...Read More
Acting Career
- 1987
Poker Alice
As: Amos
- 1987
The Survivalist
As: Dub Daniels
- 1985
The Golden Girls
As: Big Daddy
- 1984
Crazy like a Fox
As: Jennings Hyde
- 1984
Murder, She Wrote
As: Cyrus Leffingwell
- 1984
Finder of Lost Loves
As: Professor Wheeler
- 1984
Finders Keepers
As: Stapleton
- 1982
Newhart
As: Mr. Pittman
1982Matt Houston
As: Bill Houston
1979House Calls
As: Amos Weatherby
1979An American Christmas Carol
As: Merrivale
1979The Prize Fighter
As: Pop Morgan
1979The Girls in the Office
As: Ben Nayfack
1978The Gift of Love
As: O'Henry and Narrator
1978Lassie: The New Beginning
As: Amos
1978Murder at the Mardi Gras
As: Mickey Mills
1978Dallas
As: Digger Barnes
- 1978
Dallas
As: Willard 'Digger' Barnes
1978Loose Change
As: Dr. Moe Sinden
1977In the Glitter Palace
As: Nate Redstone
1976Once an Eagle
As: Col. Terwilliger
1976Delvecchio
As: Jack Henderson
1975Ellery Queen
As: Inspector Richard Queen
1975Switch
As: Dancer
1975The Apple Dumpling Gang
As: T.R. Clydesdale
1975Tubby the Tuba
As: Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
1975Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
As: Insp. Richard Queen
1975It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
As: Dr. Abner Sedgwick
1975Barney Miller
As: E.J. Heiss
1974The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
As: Maynard Richards
- 1974
The Front Page
As: Roy Bensinger
1974Return of the Big Cat
As: Grandpa Jubal
1974Huckleberry Finn
As: The Duke
1973Barnaby Jones
As: Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
1972The Streets of San Francisco
As: Wally Sensibaugh
1972Banacek
As: Walter Tyson
1972The Catcher
As: Armand Faber
1971Mooch Goes to Hollywood
As: David Wayne (uncredited)
1971The African Elephant
As: Narrator
- 1971
The Andromeda Strain
As: Dr. Charles Dutton
1970Night Gallery
As: Dr. Mill
1970The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
As: Colonel Rufus Ryder
1969Arsenic and Old Lace
As: Teddy Brewster
1968Hawaii Five-O
As: Monsieur Bordeaux
1968The Name of the Game
As: Emory Ward
1967Ironside
As: Dr. Ian Rice
1966Batman
As: The Mad Hatter
1963Burke's Law
As: Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
1963Channing
As: Dr. James Crown
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
As: Andrew Anderson
1962The Virginian
As: Martin Reese
1961The Big Gamble
As: Samuel Brennan
1959The Last Angry Man
As: Woodrow Thrasher
1959The Twilight Zone
As: Walter Bedeker
1958Naked City
As: Herbert Konish
- 1957
The Three Faces of Eve
As: Ralph White
1957The Sad Sack
As: Corporal Larry Dolan
1957Suspicion
As: James Mennick
1957DuPont Show of the Month
As: Willis Reynolds
1956The Naked Hills
As: Tracy Powell
1955The Tender Trap
As: Joe McCall
1955The Alcoa Hour
As: Homer Bolton
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As: Sam Jacoby
1955Gunsmoke
As: Judge Warfield
- 1955
Gunsmoke
As: Rev. Arthur Byrne
1954The Wonderful World of Disney
As: Grandpa Jubal
- 1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
As: Colonel Rufus Ryder
1954Hell and High Water
As: Tugboat Walker
- 1953
How to Marry a Millionaire
As: Freddie Denmark
1953Down Among the Sheltering Palms
As: Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
1953General Electric Theater
As: David Vincent
- 1953
General Electric Theater
As: Arthur Martin
1953Tonight We Sing
As: Sol Hurok
1953The I Don't Care Girl
As: Ed McCoy
1952O. Henry's Full House
As: Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1952We're Not Married!
As: Jeff Norris
1952Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
As: Ben Halper
1952With a Song in My Heart
As: Don Ross
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: Sakini
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: Father Firenzuola
1951As Young as You Feel
As: Joe Elliott
1951Up Front
As: Joe
1951M
As: Martin W. Harrow
1950My Blue Heaven
As: Walter Pringle
1950Stella
As: Carl Granger
1950The Reformer and the Redhead
As: Arthur Maxwell
- 1949
Adam's Rib
As: Kip Lurie
1948Portrait of Jennie
As: Gus O'Toole
1948Studio One
As: Jasper Hornby