Name
Wesley Addy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1913-08-04
Deathday
1996-12-31 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Biography
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.
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Known For
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- 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Marty McDonald
- 1964 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Sheriff Standish
- 1976 Network as Nelson Chaney
- 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
- 1966 Seconds as John
- 1982 The Verdict as Dr. Towler
- 1957 The Garment Jungle as Mr. Paul
- 1959 Ten Seconds to Hell as Wolfgang Sulke
- 1977 Tail Gunner Joe as Middleton
- 1956 Time Table as Dr. Paul Brucker
- 1955 The Big Knife as Horatio "Hank" Teagle
- 1963 4 for Texas as Winthrop Trowbridge
- 1955 Kiss Me Deadly as Lt. Pat Murphy
- 1996 A Modern Affair as Ed Rhodes
- 1995 Hiroshima as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
- 1966 Mister Buddwing as Dice Player
- 1981 The Private History of a Campaign That Failed as Connecticut Minister
- 1979 The Europeans as Mr. Wentworth
- 1951 The First Legion as Father John Fulton
- 1971 The Grissom Gang as John P. Blandish
- 1984 The Bostonians as Dr. Tarrant
- 1996 Before and After as Judge Grady
- 1983 Loving as Cabot Alden
- 1953 King Lear as King of France
- 1960 John Brown's Raid as Col. Lewis Washington
- 1953 The Other Wise Man
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as U.S. Attorney Cline
- 1969 Medical Center ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Alton Brent
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as McAllister
- 1956 The Edge of Night ( 305 episodes )
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as James Monroe
- 1967 Ironside ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Homer Price
- 1964 Profiles in Courage ( 1 episode ) as Hellinger
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 3 episodes )
- 1966 The Rat Patrol ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Leske
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode )
- 1961 The Defenders ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Simons
- 1977 The Andros Targets ( 1 episode ) as General Graves
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Goulding
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Jock Mitchell
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Carl Torrance
- 1952 Omnibus ( 1 episode ) as King of France
- 1963 The Outer Limits ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Rahm
- 1983 Rage of Angels ( 2 episodes ) as Abner Parker
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Joachim DeVry
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Steven Coryat
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Walter Marshall
- 1974 The Rockford Files ( 1 episode ) as Agent Steiner
- 1965 I Spy ( 1 episode ) as Hubbard
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 2 episodes )
- 1967 The Invaders ( 1 episode ) as Tomkins
- 1995 Hiroshima ( 2 episodes ) as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
- 1948 Ford Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Prof. Allen Carr
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Carl Munroe
- 1976 The Adams Chronicles ( 7 episodes ) as Andrew Jackson
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Wentworth
