
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.
Acting (50 movies)

The Front Page
1974

The Andromeda Strain
1971

How to Marry a Millionaire
1953

Finders Keepers
1984

Hell and High Water
1954

We're Not Married!
1952

The Prize Fighter
1979

Adam's Rib
1949

Portrait of Jennie
1948

Lassie: The New Beginning
1978

The Three Faces of Eve
1957

M
1951

The Sad Sack
1957

The Tender Trap
1955

The Reformer and the Redhead
1950

As Young as You Feel
1951

With a Song in My Heart
1952

The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975

Huckleberry Finn
1974

My Blue Heaven
1950

Tonight We Sing
1953

The Last Angry Man
1959

The Naked Hills
1956

The Gift of Love
1978

Poker Alice
1987

Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953

Stella
1950

The Survivalist
1987

Up Front
1951

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952

The I Don't Care Girl
1953

The Big Gamble
1961

O. Henry's Full House
1952

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975

Tubby the Tuba
1975

The African Elephant
1971

Return of the Big Cat
1974

Murder at the Mardi Gras
1978

The Girls in the Office
1979

In the Glitter Palace
1977

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975

Marilyn
1963

Arsenic and Old Lace
1969

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970

Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971

The Catcher
1972

An American Christmas Carol
1979

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974
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