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Wesley Addy

Born · August 4, 1913

Died · December 31, 1996 (83 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Bio

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

Network

Network

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

The Verdict

The Verdict

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

A Modern Affair

Ed Rhodes

1996

Before and After

Judge Grady

1996

Hiroshima

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson · (2 episodes)

1995

Hiroshima

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

1995

The Bostonians

Dr. Tarrant

1984

Loving

Cabot Alden

1983

Rage of Angels

Abner Parker · (2 episodes)

1983

Rage of Angels

Abner Parker

1983

The Verdict

Dr. Towler

1982

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

Connecticut Minister

1981

The Europeans

Mr. Wentworth

1979

Tail Gunner Joe

Middleton

1977

The Andros Targets

General Graves · (1 episode)

1977

Network

Nelson Chaney

1976

The Adams Chronicles

Andrew Jackson · (13 episodes)

1976

The Rockford Files

Agent Steiner · (1 episode)

1974

The Grissom Gang

John P. Blandish

1971

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer

1970

Medical Center

(1 episode)

1969

Ironside

(1 episode)

1967

The Invaders

Tomkins · (1 episode)

1967

Seconds

John

1966

The Rat Patrol

Colonel Leske · (1 episode)

1966

Mister Buddwing

Dice Player

1966

The F.B.I.

U.S. Attorney Cline · (1 episode)

1965

The F.B.I.

Goulding · (1 episode)

1965

The F.B.I.

Jock Mitchell · (1 episode)

1965

The F.B.I.

Carl Torrance · (1 episode)

1965

I Spy

Hubbard · (1 episode)

1965

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Sheriff Standish

1964

Profiles in Courage

Hellinger · (1 episode)

1964

4 for Texas

Winthrop Trowbridge

1963

The Fugitive

Homer Price · (1 episode)

1963

The Outer Limits

Dr. Rahm · (1 episode)

1963

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Marty McDonald

1962

The Defenders

Dr. Simons · (1 episode)

1961

John Brown's Raid

Col. Lewis Washington

1960

Ten Seconds to Hell

Wolfgang Sulke

1959

Perry Mason

Alton Brent · (1 episode)

1957

Perry Mason

Joachim DeVry · (1 episode)

1957

The Garment Jungle

Mr. Paul

1957

The Edge of Night

(305 episodes)

1956

Time Table

Dr. Paul Brucker

1956

The Big Knife

Horatio "Hank" Teagle

1955

Kiss Me Deadly

Lt. Pat Murphy

1955

King Lear

King of France

1953

The Other Wise Man

1953

Omnibus

King of France · (1 episode)

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

James Monroe · (1 episode)

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(2 episodes)

1951

The First Legion

Father John Fulton

1951

Suspense

(1 episode)

1949

Studio One

McAllister · (1 episode)

1948

Studio One

Steven Coryat · (1 episode)

1948

Studio One

Walter Marshall · (1 episode)

1948

The Philco Television Playhouse

(3 episodes)

1948