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David Wayne is a Actor American born on 30 january 1914 at Traverse City (USA)

David Wayne

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Birth name James Wayne McMeekan
Nationality USA
Birth 30 january 1914 at Traverse City (USA)
Death 9 february 1995 (at 81 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

David Wayne (January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American stage and screen actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years.

Biography

Il a été Digger Barnes dans Dallas en 1978

Best films

With a Song in My Heart (1952)
(Actor)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
(Actor)

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Filmography of David Wayne (37 films)

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Actor

Poker Alice
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, David Wayne, Susan Tyrrell
Roles Amos
Rating58% 2.9105852.9105852.9105852.9105852.910585
Alice Moffit , alias " Poker Alice", a été déshéritée par sa famille de Boston à cause de son inconditionnelle passion pour les jeux. Partie en voyage vers l'est des États-Unis avec son cousin, elle gagne alors une maison lors d'un tournoi de poker dans un train. La "maison" se révèle alors être un bordel qu'elle décide de tenir jusqu'à ce qu'elle puisse le revendre. Elle tombe ensuite amoureuse de Jeremy Collins qui est sur le point de partir s'installer en Californie. Mais se marier voudrait dire mettre un terme à sa relation fusionnelle avec son cousin ...
The Survivalist, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Transport films, Motocyclette, Arme nucléaire
Actors Steve Railsback, Cliff De Young, J. Kenneth Campbell, Susan Blakely, Marjoe Gortner, David Rigby
Roles Dub Daniels
Rating42% 2.112712.112712.112712.112712.11271
Après l'explosion d'une bombe nucléaire américaine en Sibérie, le monde est au bord de la troisième guerre mondiale. Les autorités ne parviennent pas à maintenir l'ordre public et les États-Unis, comme tous les pays du monde, basculent dans le chaos. Jack Tillman, un vétéran de la Guerre du Viêt Nam obsédé par les armes à feu est prêt mais ne peut empêcher le meurtre de son épouse et de sa fille. Il décide de fuir dans les montagnes avec un couple d'amis afin de retrouver son fils Danny. Il est poursuivi par un autre vétéran, le lieutenant Youngman, membre de la garde nationale et dont il est le rival depuis la guerre. Pour l'aider, Youngman recrute une bande de Hells Angels sans foi ni loi. Les amis de Tillman se séparent. Le docteur Vincent Ryan veut atteindre un hôpital pour se rendre utile tandis que son épouse Linda, une infirmière, veut rester auprès de Jack, avec qui elle se sent en sécurité et dont elle ne tarde pas à tomber amoureuse. Un couple d’auto-stoppeurs assassine Vincent tandis que Linda et Jack retrouvent Danny.
Finders Keepers, 1h36
Directed by Richard Lester
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Jayne Eastwood, Louis Gossett Jr., Jim Carrey, Pamela Stephenson
Roles Stapleton
Rating54% 2.7059952.7059952.7059952.7059952.705995
Con man Michael Rangeloff (O'Keefe) is a fugitive from the law and from a women's roller derby team. Stealing a coffin and boarding a train, he masquerades as a soldier bringing home a comrade's body, but the casket actually houses $5 million in stolen money that is being sought by several parties. Rangeloff claims that his deceased friend is Lane Biddlecoff (Carrey), but Biddlecoff is a draft-dodger who is still alive.
An American Christmas Carol, 1h38
Directed by Eric Till
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors Henry Winkler, Dorian Harewood, Susan Hogan, Cec Linder, R.H. Thomson, David Wayne
Roles Merrivale
Rating67% 3.392773.392773.392773.392773.39277
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
The Prize Fighter, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Buddy films
Actors Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne, Cisse Cameron, Joe Dorsey, J. Don Ferguson
Roles Pop Morgan
Rating56% 2.8063252.8063252.8063252.8063252.806325
Set in the 1930s, Tim Conway is Bags, an underdog boxer and Don Knotts as his dim-witted sidekick/manager Shake are out to save a gym and become stooges for a gangster (Robin Clarke) who decides to take advantage of the two losers: he sets Bags up for a big championship match against a bruiser nicknamed "The Butcher" (Michael LaGuardia). At stake is more than the one-sided match, the duo's friend Pop Morgan (David Wayne) has bet all he has on Bags; he needs money to save his gym from the clutches of the gangster.
Tubby the Tuba, 1h28
Genres Animation
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Van Dyke, David Wayne, Pearl Bailey, Jack Gilford, Ray Middleton, Jane Powell
Roles Pee-Wee the Piccolo (voice)
Rating60% 3.0488153.0488153.0488153.0488153.048815
The Apple Dumpling Gang, 1h40
Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Harry Morgan, Slim Pickens
Roles T.R. Clydesdale
Rating64% 3.20113.20113.20113.20113.2011
Set during the California Gold Rush, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) arrives to town and finds himself duped into taking care of a trio of orphans with the town's sheriff, barber, Justice of the Peace, and judge Homer McCoy (Harry Morgan) telling him that he is legally obligated unless he can have someone else take custody of the children. By chance, the Bradley children end up finding gold with everyone in the town attempting to adopt the children from Donovan. Fearing they would not have the children's intentions in heart, he arranged a marriage with the stagecoach driver Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale (Susan Clark) so they can keep custody of the Bradley children. However, things become complicated when their legal guardian returns. At the same time, a pair of bumbling holdup men named Amos Tucker (Tim Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Don Knotts) attempt to steal the Bradleys' gold before their former boss Frank Stillwell (Slim Pickens) kidnap the children while stealing the gold. But it ends with the gold nugget blown to bits, Stillwell arrested, and Donovan and Dusty keeping the Bradley children as they use the reward money for Stillwell's arrest to buy a farm and on their way a reformed Amos and Theodore catches up with the newfound family asking for work as farmhands.
The Front Page, 1h45
Directed by Billy Wilder, Carey Loftin, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Charles Durning, David Wayne, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Roles Roy Bensinger
Rating72% 3.6492253.6492253.6492253.6492253.649225
Chicago Examiner reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson (Jack Lemmon) has just quit his job in order to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon) and start a new career, when convict Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton) escapes from death row just prior to his execution. Earl is an impoverished, bumbling leftist whose only offense is stuffing fortune cookies with messages demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, but the yellow press of Chicago has painted him as a dangerous threat from Moscow. As a result the citizenry are anxious to see him put to death.
Huckleberry Finn, 1h58
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jeff East, Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman, David Wayne, Arthur O'Connell, Gary Merrill
Roles The Duke
Rating56% 2.8064852.8064852.8064852.8064852.806485
Huckleberry Finn (Jeff East) is a boy from Missouri living with a kindly widow and her sister who has taken him in.
The Andromeda Strain, 2h11
Directed by Robert Wise, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
Roles Dr. Charles Dutton
Rating71% 3.5989453.5989453.5989453.5989453.598945
Two crewmembers of the U.S. government's "Project Scoop" investigate the town of Piedmont, New Mexico, to retrieve the Scoop 7 satellite. They find townspeople dead in the streets and die themselves while reporting back to Scoop Mission Control. Suspecting the satellite may have brought back an extraterrestrial pathogen, Scoop Mission Control activates an elite scientific team it had previously recruited for just this type of emergency.
The Big Gamble, 1h38
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Children's films
Actors Stephen Boyd, Juliette Gréco, David Wayne, Gregory Ratoff, Sybil Thorndike, Jacques Marin
Roles Samuel Brennan
Rating58% 2.905142.905142.905142.905142.90514
Vic Brennan is a sailor from Dublin who decides to use his family's fortune and move to Africa to open a truck-hauling business. He is accompanied by his wife, Marie, and a meek cousin, Samuel, who loses their documents, causing customs agents to seize some of their cargo.
The Last Angry Man, 1h40
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker, Joanna Moore
Roles Woodrow Thrasher
Rating68% 3.443433.443433.443433.443433.44343
As the fiercely dedicated general practitioner who tries to help the sick, the poor and the unfortunate in his decrepit neighborhood, Dr. Sam Abelman (Paul Muni) is a testy old man who faces life without compromise and Woodrow Thrasher (David Wayne) is a troubled television executive fighting to preserve his career.