Wesley Addy
Born
August 4, 1913
Died
December 31, 1996 (83 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Omaha, 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.
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Known For
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
Ford Theatre
Prof. Allen Carr · (1 episode)
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
(3 episodes)
1948