David Wayne

Born: 1914-01-30

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   David Wayne (January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years. Early life and career 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.


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Portrait of Jennie

as Gus O'Toole
Released: 1948-12-25

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

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The Apple Dumpling Gang

as T.R. Clydesdale
Released: 1975-07-01

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters...

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How to Marry a Millionaire

as Freddie Denmark
Released: 1953-10-29

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

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The Andromeda Strain

as Dr. Charles Dutton
Released: 1971-03-12

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to...

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Adam's Rib

as Kip Lurie
Released: 1949-11-18

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of...

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The Three Faces of Eve

as Ralph White
Released: 1957-12-19

A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.

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The Front Page

as Roy Bensinger
Released: 1974-11-01

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss...

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O. Henry's Full House

as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Released: 1952-08-07

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and...

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An American Christmas Carol

as Merrivale
Released: 1979-12-16

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a...

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Poker Alice

as Amos
Released: 1987-05-21

She's a New Orleans gambler with a poker face no man can resist. And when she unwittingly wins a...

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We're Not Married!

as Jeff Norris
Released: 1952-07-11

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years...

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Stella

as Carl Granger
Released: 1950-07-20

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

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Finders Keepers

as Stapleton
Released: 1984-05-18

On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals...

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

as Dr. Abner Sedgwick
Released: 1975-02-21

TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his...

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M

as Martin W. Harrow
Released: 1951-03-01

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police...

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The Gift of Love

as O'Henry and Narrator
Released: 1978-12-08

Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but...

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That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)
Released: 1976-05-16

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time...

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The Sad Sack

as Corporal Larry Dolan
Released: 1957-11-27

Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic...

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The I Don't Care Girl

as Ed McCoy
Released: 1953-01-14

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a...

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The Tender Trap

as Joe McCall
Released: 1955-11-04

A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.

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The Naked Hills

as Tracy Powell
Released: 1956-06-17

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849....

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The Reformer and the Redhead

as Arthur Maxwell
Released: 1950-05-05

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]) (archive footage)
Released: 1986-04-19

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she...

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Hell and High Water

as Tugboat Walker
Released: 1954-02-06

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan...

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Mooch Goes to Hollywood

as David Wayne (uncredited)
Released: 1971-12-31

A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Tubby the Tuba

as Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
Released: 1975-04-30

When Tubby the Tuba sets out to find a melody all of his own, his journey results in this...

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The Catcher

as Armand Faber
Released: 1972-06-02

An ex-cop and a Harvard graduate team up to become bounty hunters.

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Down Among the Sheltering Palms

as Lt. Carl G. Schmidt
Released: 1953-03-01

War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely...

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With a Song in My Heart

as Don Ross
Released: 1952-04-03

Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist...

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As Young as You Feel

as Joe Elliott
Released: 1951-06-15

Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the...

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Huckleberry Finn

as The Duke
Released: 1974-05-24

Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often...

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Arsenic and Old Lace

as Teddy Brewster
Released: 1969-04-02

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs,...

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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

as Insp. Richard Queen
Released: 1975-03-23

When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled...

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Lassie: The New Beginning

as Amos
Released: 1978-09-01

The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle...

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My Blue Heaven

as Walter Pringle
Released: 1950-09-15

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For...

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

as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)
Released: 2005-08-07

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey...

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The Survivalist

as Dub Daniels
Released: 1987-01-02

An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.

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Loose Change

as Dr. Moe Sinden
Released: 1978-02-26

Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during...

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The Last Angry Man

as Woodrow Thrasher
Released: 1959-10-22

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own...

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The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

as Colonel Rufus Ryder
Released: 1970-09-20

A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show....

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Marilyn

as Self ("We're Not Married") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1963-04-18

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the...

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Up Front

as Joe
Released: 1951-03-05

Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of...

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Murder at the Mardi Gras

as Mickey Mills
Released: 1978-05-10

A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in...

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Return of the Big Cat

as Grandpa Jubal
Released: 1974-10-06

A boy, Leroy McClaren, trains a wild dog to hunt the cougar that has been threatening the family.

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In the Glitter Palace

as Nate Redstone
Released: 1977-02-23

The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in...

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The African Elephant

as Narrator
Released: 1971-10-01

African Elephant originally played in theatres as King Elephant.. The film is a straightforward,...

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The Prize Fighter

as Pop Morgan
Released: 1979-11-02

"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair:...

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The Girls in the Office

as Ben Nayfack
Released: 1979-02-02

A romantic comedy about four women employed by an ultra-modern Houston department store who...

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The Big Gamble

as Samuel Brennan
Released: 1961-07-25

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the...

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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

as Ben Halper
Released: 1952-06-27

At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his...

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

as Maynard Richards
Released: 1974-11-08

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.

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Tonight We Sing

as Sol Hurok
Released: 1953-01-26

Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life...

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Dallas

as Digger Barnes
First aired: 1978-04-02

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all....

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Dallas

as Willard 'Digger' Barnes
First aired: 1978-04-02

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all....

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Batman

as The Mad Hatter
First aired: 1966-01-12

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Cyrus Leffingwell
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Ironside

as Dr. Ian Rice
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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St. Elsewhere

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-26

St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Monsieur Bordeaux
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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The Twilight Zone

as Walter Bedeker
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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The Virginian

as Martin Reese
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee / Performer
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Performer
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Mannix

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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The Golden Girls

as Big Daddy
First aired: 1985-09-14

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake....

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Newhart

as Mr. Pittman
First aired: 1982-10-02

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in...

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Barney Miller

as E.J. Heiss
First aired: 1975-01-23

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Studio One

as Jasper Hornby
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Naked City

as Herbert Konish
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Switch

as Dancer
First aired: 1975-09-09

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...

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Burke's Law

as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Andrew Anderson
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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Barnaby Jones

as Raymond Lennox / 'Steele'
First aired: 1973-01-28

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...

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Eight Is Enough

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-03-15

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15,...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Night Gallery

as Dr. Mill
First aired: 1970-12-16

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...

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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-01-30

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC....

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Gunsmoke

as Judge Warfield
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Rev. Arthur Byrne
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Matt Houston

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-09-26

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...

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Matt Houston

as Bill Houston
First aired: 1982-09-26

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...

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Suspicion

as James Mennick
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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Outlaws

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-26

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank...

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Banacek

as Walter Tyson
First aired: 1972-09-13

Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Omnibus

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-11-09

Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

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The Name of the Game

as Emory Ward
First aired: 1968-09-20

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...

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Crazy like a Fox

as Jennings Hyde
First aired: 1984-12-30

Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Sam Jacoby
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Ellery Queen

as Inspector Richard Queen
First aired: 1975-09-11

Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character...

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Finder of Lost Loves

as Professor Wheeler
First aired: 1984-09-22

The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private...

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Sam Benedict

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-09-15

Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Grandpa Jubal
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Colonel Rufus Ryder
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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DuPont Show of the Month

as Willis Reynolds
First aired: 1957-09-29

DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired...

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Channing

as Dr. James Crown
First aired: 1963-09-18

Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College....

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The Brian Keith Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-15

The Brian Keith Show is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1972 to March 1974....

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Once an Eagle

as Col. Terwilliger
First aired: 1976-12-02

Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Sakini
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Father Firenzuola
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Delvecchio

as Jack Henderson
First aired: 1976-09-09

Delvecchio is an American television series that aired on CBS during the 1976-77 season. It...

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Big Hawaii

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-21

Big Hawaii is an American drama television series that aired from September 21 until November...

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House Calls

as Amos Weatherby
First aired: 1979-12-17

Dating someone you work with can create problems, as Charley Michaels and Ann Anderson learned....

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Hunter

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-02-18

Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.

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The Alcoa Hour

as Homer Bolton
First aired: 1955-10-16

The Alcoa Hour is an American anthology television series that was aired live on NBC from 1955...

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General Electric Theater

as David Vincent
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Arthur Martin
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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