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.

Filmography

• 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards — Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
• 1987Poker Alice — Amos
• 1987The Survivalist — Dub Daniels
• 1986Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen — Narrator (voice)
• The Golden Girls — Big Daddy
• Crazy like a Fox — Jennings Hyde
• Finder of Lost Loves — Professor Wheeler
• 1984Finders Keepers — Stapleton
• Murder, She Wrote — Cyrus Leffingwell
• Matt Houston — Bill Houston
• Newhart — Mr. Pittman
• St. Elsewhere — George Wyler
• 1979An American Christmas Carol — Merrivale
• House Calls — Amos Weatherby
• 1979The Girls in the Office — Ben Nayfack
• 1979The Prize Fighter — Pop Morgan
• Dallas — Digger Barnes, Willard 'Digger' Barnes
• 1978Lassie: The New Beginning — Amos
• 1978Murder at the Mardi Gras — Mickey Mills
• 1978The Gift of Love — O'Henry and Narrator
• Big Hawaii
• Eight Is Enough
• Hunter
• 1977In the Glitter Palace — Nate Redstone
• The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
• The Love Boat — Dwight Scoffield
• Delvecchio — Jack Henderson
• Once an Eagle — Col. Terwilliger
• 1976That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage)
• Barney Miller — E.J. Heiss
• Ellery Queen — Inspector Richard Queen
• 1975Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects — Insp. Richard Queen
• 1975It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! — Dr. Abner Sedgwick
• Switch — Dancer
• 1975The Apple Dumpling Gang — T.R. Clydesdale
• 1975Tubby the Tuba — Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
• 1974Huckleberry Finn — The Duke
• 1974Return of the Big Cat — Grandpa Jubal
• 1974The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One — Maynard Richards
• 1974The Front Page — Roy Bensinger
• Barnaby Jones — Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
• Faraday and Company — Branigan
• Banacek — Walter Tyson
• The Brian Keith Show
• 1972The Catcher — Armand Faber
• The Streets of San Francisco — Wally Sensibaugh
• 1971Mooch Goes to Hollywood — David Wayne (uncredited)
• 1971The African Elephant — Narrator
• 1971The Andromeda Strain — Dr. Charles Dutton
• The Good Life — Charles Dutton
• Night Gallery — Dr. Mill
• 1970The Boy Who Stole the Elephant — Colonel Rufus Ryder
• 1970With These Hands — Narrator
• 1969Arsenic and Old Lace — Teddy Brewster
• Hawaii Five-O — Monsieur Bordeaux
• The Name of the Game — Emory Ward
• Ironside — Dr. Ian Rice
• Mannix
• Batman — The Mad Hatter
• CBS Playhouse — George Spears
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — George Holloway
• Burke's Law — Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
• Channing — Dr. James Crown
• 1963Marilyn — archive footage
• Sam Benedict
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Andrew Anderson
• The Virginian — Martin Reese
• 1961Anatomy of an Accident — John Avery
• 1961The Big Gamble — Samuel Brennan
• Outlaws
• Route 66
• NBC Sunday Showcase — The Devil
• 1959Sunday Showcase
• 1959The Last Angry Man — Woodrow Thrasher
• The Twilight Zone — Walter Bedeker
• Naked City — Herbert Konish
• DuPont Show of the Month — Willis Reynolds
• Suspicion — James Mennick
• 1957The Jet-Propelled Couch — Dr. Kirk Allen
• 1957The Sad Sack — Corporal Larry Dolan
• 1957The Three Faces of Eve — Ralph White
• 1956The Naked Hills — Tracy Powell
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Sam Jacoby
• Gunsmoke — Judge Warfield, Rev. Arthur Byrne
• Norby — Preston Norby
• The Alcoa Hour — Homer Bolton
• 1955The Tender Trap — Joe McCall
• 1954Hell and High Water — Tugboat Walker
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Grandpa Jubal, Colonel Rufus Ryder
• 1953Down Among the Sheltering Palms — Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
• General Electric Theater — David Vincent, Arthur Martin
• 1953How to Marry a Millionaire — Freddie Denmark
• 1953The I Don't Care Girl — Ed McCoy
• 1953Tonight We Sing — Sol Hurok
• 1952O. Henry's Full House — Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
• Omnibus
• 1952Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie — Ben Halper
• 1952We're Not Married! — Jeff Norris
• 1952With a Song in My Heart — Don Ross
• 1951As Young as You Feel — Joe Elliott
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Sakini, Father Firenzuola
• 1951M — Martin W. Harrow
• 1951Up Front — Joe
• 1950My Blue Heaven — Walter Pringle
• 1950Stella — Carl Granger
• 1950The Reformer and the Redhead — Arthur Maxwell
• 1949Adam's Rib — Kip Lurie
• 1948Portrait of Jennie — Gus O'Toole
• Studio One — Jasper Hornby
• 1944Ditch and Live — Pilot of Ditching B-17
• 1940Stranger on the Third Floor — Cab Driver (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (5)

• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee / Performer, Self - Performer
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self