Person Details

Birthday: 1913-08-04 15:29:55

Death: 1996-12-31 15:29:55

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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Movie Involvements: 24

TV Involvements: 21


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
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8

Perry Mason

(1957) Joachim DeVry
Studio One
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4

Studio One

(1948) Walter Marshall
The Fugitive
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7

The Fugitive

(1963) Homer Price
The Rockford Files
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7

The Rockford Files

(1974) Agent Steiner
The Outer Limits
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8

The Outer Limits

(1963) Dr. Rahm
Omnibus
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6

Omnibus

(1952) King of France
The Defenders
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6

The Defenders

(1961) Dr. Simons
Tora! Tora! Tora!
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7

Tora! Tora! Tora!

(1970) Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1996 Ed Rhodes
Judge Grady
1995 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
1984 Dr. Tarrant
1983 Cabot Alden
Abner Parker
Abner Parker
1982 Dr. Towler
1981 Connecticut Minister
1979 Mr. Wentworth
1977 Middleton
General Graves
1976 Nelson Chaney
1974 Agent Steiner
1971 John P. Blandish
1970 Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
1969 N/A
1967 N/A
Tomkins
1966 John
Colonel Leske
N/A
Dice Player
1965 Carl Torrance
Jock Mitchell
Goulding
U.S. Attorney Cline
Hubbard
1964 Sheriff Standish
Hellinger
1963 Winthrop Trowbridge
Homer Price
Dr. Rahm
1962 Marty McDonald
1961 Dr. Simons
1960 N/A
1959 Wolfgang Sulke
1957 Alton Brent
Joachim DeVry
Mr. Paul
1956 N/A
Dr. Paul Brucker
1955 Horatio "Hank" Teagle
Lt. Pat Murphy
1953 King of France
1952 King of France
1951 James Monroe
N/A
Father John Fulton
1949 N/A
1948 Walter Marshall
Steven Coryat
McAllister
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Year Character Movie/Tv

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