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Wesley Addy
Actor
Died December 31, 1996 (83 years)
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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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
| 1996 | Harvest of Fire · as Bishop Levi Lapp |
| 1996 | Before and After · as Judge Grady |
| 1995 | A Modern Affair · as Ed Rhodes |
| 1995 | Hiroshima · as Secretary Of War Henry L. Stimson |
| 1988 | In the Heat of the Night (TV Series) · as Arvin Allenby |
| 1984 | The Bostonians · as Dr. Tarrant |
| 1983 | Loving (TV Series) · as Cabot Alden |
| 1983 | Rage of Angels (TV Series) · 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 |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Mr. Wentworth |
| 1979 | The Europeans · as Mr. Wentworth |
| 1977 | Tail Gunner Joe · as Middleton |
| 1977 | The Andros Targets (TV Series) · as General Graves |
| 1977 | The Love Boat II · as Dr. Livingston |
| 1976 | Network · as Nelson Chaney |
| 1976 | The Adams Chronicles (TV Series) · as Andrew Jackson |
| 1975 | Ryan's Hope (TV Series) · as William Price Woodard |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files (TV Series) · as Agent Steiner |
| 1971 | The Grissom Gang · as John P. Blandish |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! · as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer |
| 1969 | Medical Center (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) |
| 1967 | The Invaders (TV Series) · as Tomkins |
| 1966 | Seconds · as John |
| 1966 | The Rat Patrol (TV Series) · as Colonel Leske |
| 1966 | Love On A Rooftop (TV Series) · as Man |
| 1966 | Meet Me in St. Louis · as Mr. Smith |
| 1966 | Mister Buddwing · as Dice Player |
| 1965 | Days of our Lives (TV Series) · as Dr. Eric Cooper |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as U.s. Attorney Cline |
| 1965 | I Spy (TV Series) · as Hubbard |
| 1964 | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte · as Sheriff Standish |
| 1964 | Profiles in Courage (TV Series) · as Hellinger |
| 1964 | Slattery's People (TV Series) · as Dr. Ralph Newsome |
| 1964 | Twelve O'Clock High (TV Series) · as Maj. Gen. Fox |
| 1963 | 4 for Texas · as Winthrop Trowbridge |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Homer Price |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Dr. Rahm |
| 1962 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? · as Marty Mcdonald |
| 1961 | The Defenders (TV Series) · as Dr. Simons |
| 1960 | Insight (TV Series) · as Mr. Burton |
| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) · as Stafford Price |
| 1959 | Ten Seconds to Hell · as Wolfgang Sulke |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Alton Brent |
| 1957 | The Garment Jungle · as Mr. Paul |
| 1956 | The Edge of Night (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Time Table · as Dr. Paul Brucker |
| 1955 | The Big Knife · as Horatio "hank" Teagle |
| 1955 | Kiss Me Deadly · as Lt. Pat Murphy |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Jim Hampshire |
| 1953 | The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1953 | You Are There (TV Series) · as Admiral Lord Nelson |
| 1952 | Omnibus (TV Series) · as King Of France |
| 1952 | The Doctor (1952) (TV Series) · as Charles Miller |
| 1952 | My Six Convicts · as Bit Role |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as James Monroe |
| 1951 | Out There (TV Series) · as Commander Xeglon |
| 1951 | Celanese Theatre (TV Series) · as Hugh Farley |
| 1951 | The First Legion · as Father John Fulton |
| 1950 | Danger (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Web (1950) (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Lawrence Grabel |
| 1949 | The Big Story (TV Series) · as Edgar E. Frady |
| 1949 | Suspense (TV Series) |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Mcallister |
| 1948 | Ford Theatre (TV Series) · as Prof. Allen Carr |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1948 | The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |