Don Beddoe

Acting July 1, 1903 (87 years old) January 19, 1991 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.

Don Beddoe

Biography

Movies 175

The Night of the Hunter

The Best Years of Our Lives

Pillow Talk

River of No Return

A Star Is Born

Gun Crazy

Don't Bother to Knock

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Warlock

Jack the Giant Killer

The Talk of the Town

The Narrow Margin

The Band Wagon

The Killer Is Loose

Caged

The Enforcer

Texas Across the River

The Joker is Wild

Union Pacific

They Won't Believe Me

Texas

The Face Behind the Mask

Room for One More

Buck Privates Come Home

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Doctor Takes a Wife

For Love or Money

This Thing Called Love

California

Golden Boy

A Very Special Favor

Behind the High Wall

The Amazing Mr. Williams

She Knew All the Answers

Carrie

The Man They Could Not Hang

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Man in the Saddle

The Racket

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

The Company She Keeps

Papa's Delicate Condition

Those High Grey Walls

Beware Spooks!

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

The Great Rupert

Island of Doomed Men

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

Behave Yourself!

The Crime Doctor's Diary

Once More, My Darling

Honolulu Lu

Another Part of the Forest

Woman in Hiding

Scandal Sheet

My Son Is Guilty

Convicted Woman

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

They Dare Not Love

Before I Hang

Getting Gertie's Garter

Carson City

Blondie on a Budget

The Impossible Years

The Miracle on 34th Street

Winged Victory

The Notorious Lone Wolf

Hideout

Tarnished

The Blonde from Singapore

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

The Unknown Man

Mandrake the Magician

The Rawhide Years

The Iron Mistress

You Nazty Spy!

Our Town