
Don Beddoe
Biography
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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.
Acting (169 movies)

The Night of the Hunter
1955

The Secret Seven
1940

Blondie Meets the Boss
1939

Blondie on a Budget
1940

The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942

Don't Bother to Knock
1952

The Talk of the Town
1942

The Narrow Margin
1952

Jack the Giant Killer
1962

Hoodlum Empire
1952

The Man They Could Not Hang
1939

Loophole
1954

The Company She Keeps
1951

They Won't Believe Me
1947

The Enforcer
1951

Buck Privates Come Home
1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947

Our Town
1977

The Face Behind the Mask
1941

Crime, Inc.
1945

The Band Wagon
1953

Flame of Youth
1949

The Lady Gambles
1949

The Phantom Submarine
1940

Warlock
1959

Woman in Hiding
1950

Golden Boy
1939

Behind Green Lights
1946

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940

Million Dollar Pursuit
1951

The System
1953

Behind the High Wall
1956

Jubilee Trail
1954

Winged Victory
1944

Flying G-Men
1939

Not a Ladies' Man
1942

The Awful Goof
1939

Scandal Sheet
1952

The Unknown Man
1951

The Great Rupert
1950

Hideout
1949

Carson City
1952

The Spook Speaks
1940

Dancing in the Dark
1949

Girls of the Road
1940

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941

The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940

The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949

Stop, You're Killing Me
1952

Unholy Partners
1941

O.S.S.
1946

The Iron Mistress
1952

The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946

Island of Doomed Men
1940

Easy Living
1949

Bullwhip
1958

The Steel Cage
1954

Welcome Stranger
1947

Three Sappy People
1939

Blue Canadian Rockies
1952

Scandal Sheet
1939

The Big Boss
1941

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939

The Killer Is Loose
1956

Those High Grey Walls
1939

Men Without Souls
1940

Black Bart
1948

Boy Who Caught a Crook
1961

You Nazty Spy!
1940

River of No Return
1954

Outside These Walls
1939

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957

Gasoline Alley
1951

Once More, My Darling
1949

This Thing Called Love
1940

Beyond the Purple Hills
1950

Beware Spooks!
1939

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958

Blaze of Noon
1947

For Love or Money
1963

Mandrake the Magician
1939

The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940

Saintly Sinners
1962

Union Pacific
1939

Corky of Gasoline Alley
1951

Texas Across the River
1966

Emergency Wedding
1950

Cow Country
1953

Sweetheart of the Campus
1941

Before I Hang
1940

Papa's Delicate Condition
1963

Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939

Calcutta
1946

The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939

Texas
1941

A Very Special Favor
1965

There's That Woman Again
1938

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967

A Star Is Born
1954
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