Wesley Addy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 4, 1913
- Died
- Dec 31, 1996 (aged 83)
- Place of birth
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Credits
- 51
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
Network
1976Movie
Nelson Chaney
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962Movie
Marty McDonald
The Verdict
1982Movie
Dr. Towler
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970Movie
Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
Seconds
1966Movie
John
Kiss Me Deadly
1955Movie
Lt. Pat Murphy
Filmography
A Modern Affair
1996Movie
Ed Rhodes
Before and After
1996Movie
Judge Grady
Hiroshima
1995TV
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Hiroshima
1995Movie
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
The Bostonians
1984Movie
Dr. Tarrant
Loving
1983Movie
Cabot Alden
Rage of Angels
1983TV
Abner Parker
The Verdict
1982Movie
Dr. Towler
American Playhouse
1982TV
Mr. Wentworth
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981Movie
Connecticut Minister
The Europeans
1979Movie
Mr. Wentworth
Tail Gunner Joe
1977Movie
Middleton
The Andros Targets
1977TV
General Graves
Network
1976Movie
Nelson Chaney
The Adams Chronicles
1976TV
Andrew Jackson
The Rockford Files
1974TV
Agent Steiner
The Grissom Gang
1971Movie
John P. Blandish
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970Movie
Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
Medical Center
1969TV
Ironside
1967TV
The Invaders
1967TV
Tomkins
Seconds
1966Movie
John
The Rat Patrol
1966TV
Colonel Leske
Mister Buddwing
1966Movie
Dice Player
The F.B.I.
1965TV
U.S. Attorney Cline, Goulding, Jock Mitchell, Carl Torrance, Carl Munroe
I Spy
1965TV
Hubbard
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964Movie
Sheriff Standish
Profiles in Courage
1964TV
Hellinger
4 for Texas
1963Movie
Winthrop Trowbridge
The Fugitive
1963TV
Homer Price
The Outer Limits
1963TV
Dr. Rahm
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962Movie
Marty McDonald
The Defenders
1961TV
Dr. Simons
John Brown's Raid
1960Movie
Col. Lewis Washington
Ten Seconds to Hell
1959Movie
Wolfgang Sulke
Perry Mason
1957TV
Alton Brent, Joachim DeVry
The Garment Jungle
1957Movie
Mr. Paul
The Edge of Night
1956TV
Time Table
1956Movie
Dr. Paul Brucker
The Big Knife
1955Movie
Horatio "Hank" Teagle
Kiss Me Deadly
1955Movie
Lt. Pat Murphy
King Lear
1953Movie
King of France
Hamlet
1953Movie
Horatio
The Other Wise Man
1953Movie
Omnibus
1952TV
King of France
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
James Monroe
The First Legion
1951Movie
Father John Fulton
Suspense
1949TV
Studio One
1948TV
McAllister, Steven Coryat, Walter Marshall
Ford Theatre
1948TV
Prof. Allen Carr
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV