
Wesley Addy
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.142 |
Birthday | 1913-08-04 |
Place of Birth | Omaha, Nebraska, USA |
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1962

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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1964

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
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1976

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1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.16/550
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1966

Seconds
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1982

The Verdict
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1957

The Garment Jungle
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1959

Ten Seconds to Hell
6.13/27
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1977

Tail Gunner Joe
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1956

Time Table
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1955

The Big Knife
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1963

4 for Texas
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1955

Kiss Me Deadly
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1996

A Modern Affair
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1995

Hiroshima
8/3
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1966

Mister Buddwing
5.9/13
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1983

Rage of Angels
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1981

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
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1979

The Europeans
5.5/23
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1951

The First Legion
6.8/4
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1971

The Grissom Gang
6.7/33
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1984

The Bostonians
5.5/42
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1996

Before and After
5.9/196
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1983

Loving
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1953

King Lear
8/2
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1960

John Brown's Raid
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1953

The Other Wise Man
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