Wesley Addy
27 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 4, 1913
- Died
- Dec 31, 1996 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Also known as
- Роберт Уэсли Эдди · Robert 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.
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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
Wesley Addy: movies and TV shows
Acting (50)
- 1996 A Modern Affair
as Ed Rhodes
- 1996 Before and After
as Judge Grady
- 1995
- 1995 Hiroshima
as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
- 1984 The Bostonians
as Dr. Tarrant
- 1983 Loving
as Cabot Alden
- 1983
- 1982 The Verdict
as Dr. Towler
- 1982
- 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
- 1976 Network
as Nelson Chaney
- 1976
- 1974
- 1971 The Grissom Gang
as John P. Blandish
- 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
- 1969
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966 Seconds
as John
- 1966
- 1966 Mister Buddwing
as Dice Player
- 1965 The F.B.I. · TV
as U.S. Attorney Cline / Goulding / Jock Mitchell / Carl Torrance / Carl Munroe · 5 episodes
- 1965
- 1964 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Sheriff Standish
- 1964
- 1963 4 for Texas
as Winthrop Trowbridge
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Marty McDonald
- 1961
- 1960 John Brown's Raid
as Col. Lewis Washington
- 1959 Ten Seconds to Hell
as Wolfgang Sulke
- 1957
- 1957 The Garment Jungle
as Mr. Paul
- 1956
- 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
- 1953 Hamlet
as Horatio
- 1953
- 1951
- 1951 The First Legion
as Father John Fulton
- 1949
- 1948
- 1948
- 1948
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1952 Omnibus
1 episode