Wesley Addy

Acting

Born August 4, 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, usually opposite actor Maurice Evans. After playing two roles in one of Evans's productions of Hamlet, he played Horatio opposite Evans's Hamlet in a 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the work, the most prestigious American production of the play seen on TV up to that time. Also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. Later, during the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryan's Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. In motion pictures, Addy's career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in several pictures, such as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) and The Grissom Gang (1971). In 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work together again in The Verdict., in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newman's case against a hospital for malpractice. Another of Addy's best-remembered roles was that of Lt. Cdr. Alvin Kramer, who unsuccessfully tries to warn American officials of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora!. Addy was born as Robert Wesley Addy in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Danbury, Connecticut. He was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1996A Modern Affair — Ed Rhodes
• 1996Before and After — Judge Grady
• 1995Hiroshima — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
• Hiroshima — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
• 1984The Bostonians — Dr. Tarrant
• 1983Loving — Cabot Alden
• Rage of Angels — Abner Parker
• American Playhouse — Mr. Wentworth
• 1982The Verdict — Dr. Towler
• 1981The Private History of a Campaign That Failed — Connecticut Minister
• 1979The Europeans — Mr. Wentworth
• 1977Tail Gunner Joe — Middleton
• The Andros Targets — General Graves
• 1976Network — Nelson Chaney
• The Adams Chronicles — Andrew Jackson
• The Rockford Files — Agent Steiner
• 1971The Grissom Gang — John P. Blandish
• 1970Tora! Tora! Tora! — Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
• Medical Center
• Ironside
• The Invaders — Tomkins
• 1966Mister Buddwing — Dice Player
• 1966Seconds — John
• The Rat Patrol — Colonel Leske
• I Spy — Hubbard
• The F.B.I. — U.S. Attorney Cline, Goulding, Jock Mitchell, Carl Torrance, Carl Munroe
• 1964Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte — Sheriff Standish
• Profiles in Courage — Hellinger
• 19634 for Texas — Winthrop Trowbridge
• The Fugitive — Homer Price
• The Outer Limits — Dr. Rahm
• 1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — Marty McDonald
• The Defenders — Dr. Simons
• 1960John Brown's Raid — Col. Lewis Washington
• 1959Ten Seconds to Hell — Wolfgang Sulke
• Perry Mason — Alton Brent, Joachim DeVry
• 1957The Garment Jungle — Mr. Paul
• The Edge of Night
• 1956Time Table — Dr. Paul Brucker
• 1955Kiss Me Deadly — Lt. Pat Murphy
• 1955The Big Knife — Horatio "Hank" Teagle
• 1953Hamlet — Horatio
• 1953King Lear — King of France
• 1953The Other Wise Man
• Omnibus — King of France
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — James Monroe
• 1951The First Legion — Father John Fulton
• Suspense
• Ford Theatre — Prof. Allen Carr
• Studio One — McAllister, Steven Coryat, Walter Marshall
• The Philco Television Playhouse