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Personal Info

Birth date

1913-08-04 (111 Years)

Day of death

1996-12-31

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Also known as

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Wesley Addy

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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Filmography

Acting

1996A Modern Affair as Ed Rhodes

1996Before and After as Judge Grady

1995Hiroshima (2 Episodes) as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

1995Hiroshima as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

1984The Bostonians as Dr. Tarrant

1983Loving as Cabot Alden

1983Rage of Angels (2 Episodes) as Abner Parker

1983Rage of Angels as Abner Parker

1982The Verdict as Dr. Towler

1981The Private History of a Campaign That Failed as Connecticut Minister

1979The Europeans as Mr. Wentworth

1977Tail Gunner Joe as Middleton

1977The Andros Targets (1 Episode) as General Graves

1976Network as Nelson Chaney

1976The Adams Chronicles (13 Episodes) as Andrew Jackson

1974The Rockford Files (1 Episode) as Agent Steiner

1971The Grissom Gang as John P. Blandish

1970Tora! Tora! Tora! as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer

1969Medical Center (1 Episode) as Unknown

1967Ironside (1 Episode) as Unknown

1967The Invaders (1 Episode) as Tomkins

1966Seconds as John

1966The Rat Patrol (1 Episode) as Colonel Leske

1966Mister Buddwing as Dice Player

1965The F.B.I. (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as U.S. Attorney Cline, Goulding, Jock Mitchell, Carl Torrance

1965I Spy (1 Episode) as Hubbard

1964Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Sheriff Standish

1964Profiles in Courage (1 Episode) as Hellinger

19634 for Texas as Winthrop Trowbridge

1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) as Homer Price

1963The Outer Limits (1 Episode) as Dr. Rahm

1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Marty McDonald

1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as Dr. Simons

1960John Brown's Raid as Col. Lewis Washington

1959Ten Seconds to Hell as Wolfgang Sulke

1957Perry Mason (1, 1 Episode) as Alton Brent, Joachim DeVry

1957The Garment Jungle as Mr. Paul

1956The Edge of Night (305 Episodes) as Unknown

1956Time Table as Dr. Paul Brucker

1955The Big Knife as Horatio "Hank" Teagle

1955Kiss Me Deadly as Lt. Pat Murphy

1953King Lear as King of France

1953The Other Wise Man as Unknown

1952Omnibus (1 Episode) as King of France

1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1, 2 Episode) as James Monroe, Unknown

1951The First Legion as Father John Fulton

1949Suspense (1 Episode) as Unknown

1948Studio One (1, 1, 1 Episode) as McAllister, Steven Coryat, Walter Marshall

1948Ford Theatre (1 Episode) as Prof. Allen Carr

1948The Philco Television Playhouse (3 Episodes) as Unknown