
David Wayne
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.
113 acting credits
Acting · 113

Dallas
1978

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Mannix
1967

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Ironside
1967

Batman
1966

Hawaii Five-O
1968

St. Elsewhere
1982

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

The Twilight Zone
1959

The Virginian
1962

Barney Miller
1975

The Golden Girls
1985

Tony Awards
1956

Naked City
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Burke's Law
1963

Route 66
1960

Barnaby Jones
1973

What's My Line?
1950

Studio One
1948

Newhart
1982

Night Gallery
1970

The Name of the Game
1968

Gunsmoke
1955

The Streets of San Francisco
1972

Omnibus
1952

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Matt Houston
1982

Switch
1975

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977

Eight Is Enough
1977
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

Crazy like a Fox
1984

Ellery Queen
1975

Banacek
1972

Outlaws
1960

Sam Benedict
1962

Finder of Lost Loves
1984
CBS Playhouse
1966

Suspicion
1957

DuPont Show of the Month
1957

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Hunter
1977

The Alcoa Hour
1955

Once an Eagle
1976

Delvecchio
1976

Channing
1963

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Brian Keith Show
1972

General Electric Theater
1953

The Andromeda Strain
1971
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959

House Calls
1979

Big Hawaii
1977

How to Marry a Millionaire
1953

Faraday and Company
1973

The Front Page
1974

The Three Faces of Eve
1957

Adam's Rib
1949

O. Henry's Full House
1952
Norby
1955

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

Portrait of Jennie
1948

Loose Change
1978

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

We're Not Married!
1952

M
1951
The Good Life
1971

Finders Keepers
1984

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

The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

The Last Angry Man
1959

An American Christmas Carol
1979

Hell and High Water
1954

Marilyn
1963

The Naked Hills
1956

Lassie: The New Beginning
1978

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975

Stella
1950

Huckleberry Finn
1974

The Gift of Love
1978

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970

Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953

The Girls in the Office
1979

Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971

My Blue Heaven
1950

As Young as You Feel
1951

Return of the Big Cat
1974

The Tender Trap
1955

The Big Gamble
1961

Poker Alice
1987

The Survivalist
1987

In the Glitter Palace
1977

The Prize Fighter
1979

Arsenic and Old Lace
1969

The Sad Sack
1957

The Reformer and the Redhead
1950

Murder at the Mardi Gras
1978

With a Song in My Heart
1952

Tonight We Sing
1953

The I Don't Care Girl
1953
Ditch and Live
1944

The Catcher
1972

Up Front
1951

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952

Anatomy of an Accident
1961

The African Elephant
1971

Tubby the Tuba
1975
Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen
1986
With These Hands
1970