Don Beddoe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
224 acting credits
Acting · 224
Perry Mason
1957
Mannix
1967
Bewitched
1964
Maverick
1957
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Lassie
1954
Wagon Train
1957
Petticoat Junction
1963
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Four Star Playhouse
1952
Route 66
1960
Cheyenne
1955
The Wild Wild West
1965
Lawman
1958
Rawhide
1959
The Lucy Show
1962
Father Knows Best
1954
One Step Beyond
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Texan
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Laredo
1965
F Troop
1965
Bronco
1958
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
The Millionaire
1955
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
Cain's Hundred
1961
CBS Playhouse
1966
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Public Defender
1954
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Wire Service
1956
The Alaskans
1959
Pete and Gladys
1960
Hey, Jeannie!
1956
The Second Hundred Years
1967
Ensign O'Toole
1962
Letter to Loretta
1953
Going My Way
1962
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
The Gale Storm Show
1956
General Electric Theater
1953
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
The Night of the Hunter
1955
Conflict
1956
Pillow Talk
1959
River of No Return
1954
Warlock
1959
Straightaway
1961
A Star Is Born
1954
Gun Crazy
1950
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
Caged
1950
The O. Henry Playhouse
1957
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
Crime, Inc.
1945
Texas
1941
Carrie
1952
The Enforcer
1951
California
1947
Don't Bother to Knock
1952
The Band Wagon
1953
The Clown
1953
The Talk of the Town
1942
Winged Victory
1944
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
Golden Boy
1939
Room for One More
1952
The Lady Gambles
1949
The Racket
1951
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
Union Pacific
1939
The Rawhide Years
1956
The Company She Keeps
1951
Gasoline Alley
1951
Sabotage Squad
1942
Carson City
1952
Black Bart
1948
Scandal Sheet
1952
The Iron Mistress
1952
The Narrow Margin
1952
Texas Across the River
1966
Convicted Woman
1940
The Great Rupert
1950
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
Cafe Hostess
1940
Your Jeweler's Showcase
1952
Jubilee Trail
1954
Easy Living
1949
Man in the Saddle
1951
The Impossible Years
1968
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
Welcome Stranger
1947
Coast Guard
1939
The Killer Is Loose
1956
Woman in Hiding
1950
The System
1953
Generation
1969
Papa's Delicate Condition
1963
Before I Hang
1940
Blondie on a Budget
1940
Behave Yourself!
1951
Behind Green Lights
1946
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946
Dancing in the Dark
1949
Sweetheart of the Campus
1941
Wyoming Renegades
1954
The Secret Seven
1940
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
Outside These Walls
1939
The Man They Could Not Hang
1939
Hoodlum Empire
1952
The Joker is Wild
1957
Southside 1-1000
1950
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
Calcutta
1946
Tarnished
1950
Cow Country
1953
Kilroy
1965
So You Won't Talk?
1940
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
She Knew All the Answers
1941
Once More, My Darling
1949
Midnight Manhunt
1945
Harvard Here I Come
1941
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
Our Town
1977
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949
They Won't Believe Me
1947
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
Beware Spooks!
1939
Bride of Vengeance
1949
Hideout
1949
Nickel Mountain
1984
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
Military Academy
1940
A Very Special Favor
1965
Romance of the Redwoods
1939
Rodeo King and the Senorita
1951
There's That Woman Again
1938
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
Texas Stagecoach
1940
Beyond the Sacramento
1940
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957
The Miracle on 34th Street
1955
The Awful Goof
1939
Bullwhip
1958
Loophole
1954
Three Sappy People
1939
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
O.S.S.
1946
Under Age
1941
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
Mandrake the Magician
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
The Unknown Man
1951
Men Without Souls
1940
Unholy Partners
1941
Black Eyes and Blues
1941
Flame of Youth
1949
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
Behind the High Wall
1956
Another Part of the Forest
1948
Stop, You're Killing Me
1952
Glamour for Sale
1940
Shut My Big Mouth
1942
This Thing Called Love
1940
Blades of the Musketeers
1950
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
Blaze of Noon
1947
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Emergency Wedding
1950
Escape to Glory
1940
Meet the Stewarts
1942
You Nazty Spy!
1940
If You Knew Susie
1948
The Steel Cage
1954
Power of the Press
1943
The Blonde from Singapore
1941
Corky of Gasoline Alley
1951
Those High Grey Walls
1939
Beyond the Purple Hills
1950
For Love or Money
1963
The Phantom Submarine
1940
Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939
Honolulu Lu
1941
They Dare Not Love
1941
Flying G-Men
1939
Missing Daughters
1939
Scandal Sheet
1939
Island of Doomed Men
1940
Lucky Legs
1942
Smith of Minnesota
1942
Mandrake the Magician
1939
Junior Army
1942
Girls of the Road
1940
Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
How Do I Love Thee?
1970
The Bogus Green
1951
Boy Who Caught a Crook
1961
The Big Boss
1941
Million Dollar Pursuit
1951
Blue Canadian Rockies
1952
Saintly Sinners
1962
The Spook Speaks
1940
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1957
Young Daniel Boone
1950
West of Abilene
1940
The Heckler
1940
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940
My Son Is Guilty
1939
Not a Ladies' Man
1942
A Bewitched Christmas
1994
Sing for Your Supper
1941
A Fair Chance
1954