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