Wesley Addy

Known for ActingBorn 1913-08-04Died 1996-12-31Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hiroshima

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hiroshima

Network

King Lear

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Ford Theatre

The Outer Limits

The Rockford Files

Perry Mason

The Verdict

The Adams Chronicles

Profiles in Courage

Tail Gunner Joe

Seconds

The Fugitive

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

The First Legion

Tora! Tora! Tora!

The Rat Patrol

The Andros Targets

Kiss Me Deadly

Ironside

The Invaders

The Grissom Gang

I Spy

The Edge of Night

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Garment Jungle

Medical Center

A Modern Affair

Before and After

The Defenders

Omnibus

Ten Seconds to Hell

Rage of Angels

Mister Buddwing

The Big Knife

Time Table

The Bostonians

The Europeans

The F.B.I.

Studio One

4 for Texas

Suspense

Loving

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

John Brown's Raid