Don Beddoe

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

123

Movies

174

Born: July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991
From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years. After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory. Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy! Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films. Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s. Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again. During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.

Works

174 films

The Night of the Hunter

19557.9

Pillow Talk

19597.1

The Best Years of Our Lives

19467.7

River of No Return

19546.7

Warlock

19596.8

A Star Is Born

19547.1

There's That Woman Again

19386.2

Cyrano de Bergerac

19506.9

The Band Wagon

19537.2

Gun Crazy

19507.4

Union Pacific

19396.7

Caged

19507.1

Crime, Inc.

19454.8

Don't Bother to Knock

19526.7

Man in the Saddle

19516.6

Jack the Giant Killer

19626.6

The Enforcer

19517.1

Woman in Hiding

19506.3

The Racket

19516.3

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

19476.9

The Lady Gambles

19496.1

Texas

19416.7

Before I Hang

19406.3

The Narrow Margin

19527.3

Black Bart

19484.9

A Very Special Favor

19655.9

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

19555.4

Texas Across the River

19665.7

Carson City

19526.2

Hideout

19495.9

The Talk of the Town

19427.3

Beware Spooks!

19398.5

Scandal Sheet

19527.0

Golden Boy

19396.5

The Blonde from Singapore

19415.8

Tarnished

19507.2

Welcome Stranger

19476.9

Room for One More

19526.5

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

19576.0

The Company She Keeps

19516.2

So You Won't Talk?

19405.8

Buck Privates Come Home

19476.4

Junior Army

19426.3

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

19917.5

California

19476.8

Carrie

19526.4

Papa's Delicate Condition

19635.6

For Love or Money

19636.1

Kilroy

1965

Bullwhip

19584.9

The Rawhide Years

19565.6

Harvard Here I Come

19415.8

Corky of Gasoline Alley

19518.0

The Unknown Man

19515.1

They Won't Believe Me

19476.5

The Face Behind the Mask

19416.5

The Great Rupert

19505.8

The Steel Cage

19547.0

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

19396.6

Honolulu Lu

19415.8

The Joker is Wild

19578.1

The Iron Mistress

19525.3

Wyoming Renegades

19546.1

Meet the Stewarts

19425.5

Blue Canadian Rockies

19527.0

Three Sappy People

19396.6

The Crime Doctor's Diary

19496.3

Girls of the Road

19405.5

The Man They Could Not Hang

19396.7

Bride of Vengeance

19495.4

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

19406.8

The Amazing Mr. Williams

19396.0

They Dare Not Love

19417.5

The Big Boss

19416.1

Men Without Souls

19406.7

Midnight Manhunt

19454.6

The Killer Is Loose

19566.7

Getting Gertie's Garter

19454.7

This Thing Called Love

19408.4

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

19586.5

The Notorious Lone Wolf

19466.0

Those High Grey Walls

19396.4

Coast Guard

19396.0

Blondie Meets the Boss

19395.8

The Doctor Takes a Wife

19406.8

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

19407.2

Cafe Hostess

19405.4

The Clown

19535.6

Shut My Big Mouth

19428.3

Dancing in the Dark

19496.0

Winged Victory

19446.3

Calcutta

19466.4

Blades of the Musketeers

19508.0

Glamour for Sale

19405.0

The Miracle on 34th Street

19555.7

Beyond the Sacramento

19409.0

Nickel Mountain

19844.2

Convicted Woman

19404.6

You Nazty Spy!

19407.3

She Knew All the Answers

19416.6

Gasoline Alley

19515.8

Blaze of Noon

19475.7

Another Part of the Forest

19487.8

The System

19535.3

Hoodlum Empire

19526.5

Mandrake the Magician

19395.9

Generation

19695.5

The Lone Wolf Strikes

19406.8

A Bewitched Christmas

1994

Invitation to a Gunfighter

1957

Island of Doomed Men

19405.5

Cow Country

19534.6

The Impossible Years

19685.6

Good Girls Go to Paris

19397.1

The Phantom Submarine

19406.3

Blondie on a Budget

19406.2

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

19406.4

Easy Living

19495.7

Sing for Your Supper

19418.0

Behind the High Wall

19565.5

Sabotage Squad

19427.5

Behind Green Lights

19465.6

Jubilee Trail

19545.2

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

19416.1

Texas Stagecoach

19409.0

West of Abilene

194010.0

Beyond the Purple Hills

19509.0

Emergency Wedding

19506.0

The Boogie Man Will Get You

19426.2

Boy Who Caught a Crook

19615.5

Scandal Sheet

19397.0

Saintly Sinners

19625.3

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

19406.2

O.S.S.

19466.9

If You Knew Susie

19487.3

Manhattan Heartbeat

19408.0

Unholy Partners

19417.6

Flying G-Men

19398.0

Young Daniel Boone

195010.0

Escape to Glory

19407.5

Southside 1-1000

19506.0

The Heckler

19407.0

Lucky Legs

19429.0

Behave Yourself!

19516.2

Black Eyes and Blues

19419.0

Outside These Walls

19398.8

Loophole

19546.9

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

196710.0

Our Town

19779.5

Under Age

19417.5

How Do I Love Thee?

19704.2

Romance of the Redwoods

19397.0

The Secret Seven

194010.0

The Man from Tumbleweeds

19405.0

Stop, You're Killing Me

19527.7

The Bogus Green

1951

My Son Is Guilty

19397.5

Military Academy

19407.0

Not a Ladies' Man

19426.3

Two Latins from Manhattan

19416.0

Sweetheart of the Campus

19415.8

The Well Groomed Bride

19465.7

Million Dollar Pursuit

19516.5

Once More, My Darling

19496.5

Power of the Press

19436.5

Missing Daughters

19394.3

Smith of Minnesota

19429.0

The Spook Speaks

19406.0

Rodeo King and the Senorita

19517.0

Konga, the Wild Stallion

193910.0

The Awful Goof

19397.0

Mandrake the Magician

19405.0

A Fair Chance

1954

Flame of Youth

194910.0