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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