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Wesley Addy

Wesley Addy

Actor · 1913 – 1996 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies24

  • Movie7.8

    Network

    1976 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    1970 · 623 votes

  • Movie7.9
  • Movie7.5

    The Verdict

    1982 · 767 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Before and After

    1996 · 220 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Seconds

    1966 · 454 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Kiss Me Deadly

    1955 · 420 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.0

    The Big Knife

    1955 · 99 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Bostonians

    1984 · 51 votes

  • Movie5.1

    4 for Texas

    1963 · 62 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Garment Jungle

    1957 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Grissom Gang

    1971 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Ten Seconds to Hell

    1959 · 34 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.0

    Time Table

    1956 · 21 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Hamlet

    1953 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Tail Gunner Joe

    1977 · 4 votes

  • Movie8.3

    Hiroshima

    1995 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Mister Buddwing

    1966 · 15 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.0

    A Modern Affair

    1996 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.4

    The First Legion

    1951 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Europeans

    1979 · 30 votes

Series24

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Rockford Files

    1974 · 133 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Defenders

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV6.4

    Medical Center

    1969 · 14 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Invaders

    1967 · 62 votes

  • TV6.6
  • TV7.8

    The Outer Limits

    1963 · 164 votes

  • TV7.0

    Omnibus

    1952 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV6.5

    I Spy

    1965 · 31 votes

  • TV8.0

    Ford Theatre

    1948 · 1 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Rat Patrol

    1966 · 22 votes

  • TV6.6

    The Edge of Night

    1956 · 9 votes

  • TV7.5

    Profiles in Courage

    1964 · 2 votes

  • TV8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Adams Chronicles

    1976 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Andros Targets

    1977 · 2 votes

  • TV5.9

    Rage of Angels

    1983 · 6 votes

  • TV8.0

    Hiroshima

    1995 · 1 votes