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Acting

David Wayne

Career: Active from 1944 to 1987, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 29
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: Portrait of Jennie
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 61 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

David Wayne Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
2.2, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.1, average 4.8
Coming of Age
1.5, average 3.0
Tension
4.7, average 6.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 3
Classic Screwball Comedy 3
Nostalgic 3
Character Study 3
Visually Striking 2
Bittersweet 2
Witty Dialogue 2
Period Piece 2
Classic Television 2
Historical Drama 2
Character-Driven 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

109

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

as Grandpère Bonnard (segment "The Happy Time") (archive footage)

1980s

11 titles · average score 64

Poker Alice

64

as Amos

The Survivalist

37

as Dub Daniels

Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen

as Narrator (voice)

The Golden Girls

83

TV show · as Big Daddy

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Cyrus Leffingwell

Finders Keepers

44

as Stapleton

Crazy like a Fox

54

TV show · as Jennings Hyde

Finder of Lost Loves

TV show · as Professor Wheeler

Newhart

79

TV show · as Mr. Pittman

St. Elsewhere

77

TV show · as George Wyler

Matt Houston

64

TV show · as Bill Houston

1970s

40 titles · average score 63

An American Christmas Carol

65

as Merrivale

The Prize Fighter

58

as Pop Morgan

Dallas

73

TV show · as Willard 'Digger' Barnes / Digger Barnes

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Dwight Scoffield

Ellery Queen

79

TV show · as Inspector Richard Queen

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!

41

as Dr. Abner Sedgwick

The Apple Dumpling Gang

62

as T.R. Clydesdale

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

80

as Insp. Richard Queen

The Front Page

65

as Roy Bensinger

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

as Maynard Richards

The Andromeda Strain

68

as Dr. Charles Dutton

TV show · as Charles Dutton

1960s

18 titles · average score 62

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Monsieur Bordeaux

The Name of the Game

73

TV show · as Emory Ward

Ironside

45

TV show · as Dr. Ian Rice

Mannix

71

TV show

Batman

73

TV show · as The Mad Hatter

Burke's Law

68

TV show · as Al 'The Bomber' Devlin

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as George Holloway

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Andrew Anderson

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Martin Reese

The Big Gamble

59

as Samuel Brennan

Anatomy of an Accident

as John Avery

Route 66

48

TV show

1950s

34 titles · average score 68

The Last Angry Man

62

as Woodrow Thrasher

The Three Faces of Eve

73

as Ralph White

The Sad Sack

57

as Corporal Larry Dolan

The Tender Trap

63

as Joe McCall

How to Marry a Millionaire

75

as Freddie Denmark

The I Don't Care Girl

67

as Ed McCoy

O. Henry's Full House

69

as Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

With a Song in My Heart

60

as Don Ross

64

as Martin W. Harrow

As Young as You Feel

59

as Joe Elliott

My Blue Heaven

66

as Walter Pringle

The Reformer and the Redhead

56

as Arthur Maxwell

1940s

5 titles · average score 75

Adam's Rib

83

as Kip Lurie

Portrait of Jennie

85

as Gus O'Toole

Studio One

65

TV show · as Jasper Hornby

as Pilot of Ditching B-17

Stranger on the Third Floor

70

as Cab Driver (uncredited)