Don Beddoe
Acting
- Born:
- 1903-07-01
- Died:
- 1991-01-19
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
A Bewitched Christmas
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Nickel Mountain
Our Town
Little House on the Prairie
How Do I Love Thee?
Nanny and the Professor
Generation
The Impossible Years
Mayberry R.F.D.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Mannix
The Second Hundred Years
CBS Playhouse
Texas Across the River
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
The Wild Wild West
Laredo
F Troop
A Very Special Favor
Kilroy
Bewitched
Petticoat Junction
For Love or Money
Papa's Delicate Condition
Going My Way
The Lucy Show
Ensign O'Toole
Jack the Giant Killer
Saintly Sinners
Straightaway
Boy Who Caught a Crook
Cain's Hundred
Route 66
The Tom Ewell Show
Pete and Gladys
Pillow Talk
The Alaskans
Bonanza
Warlock
One Step Beyond
Rawhide
Lawman
The Texan
Bronco
Bullwhip
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
The Joker is Wild
Maverick
Perry Mason
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
Invitation to a Gunfighter
The O. Henry Playhouse
Wire Service
The Gale Storm Show
Conflict
Hey, Jeannie!
Behind the High Wall
The Rawhide Years
The Killer Is Loose
The Miracle on 34th Street
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
The Night of the Hunter
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
The Millionaire
The Steel Cage
Father Knows Best
A Star Is Born
Lassie
A Fair Chance
Jubilee Trail
River of No Return
Loophole
Wyoming Renegades
Public Defender
Letter to Loretta
The Band Wagon
Cow Country
The System
General Electric Theater
The Clown
Stop, You're Killing Me
Blue Canadian Rockies
The Iron Mistress
Your Jeweler's Showcase
Mr. & Mrs. North
Four Star Playhouse
Don't Bother to Knock
Carrie
Carson City
The Narrow Margin
Hoodlum Empire
Scandal Sheet
Room for One More
Man in the Saddle
The Unknown Man
The Racket
Behave Yourself!
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Rodeo King and the Senorita
The Bogus Green
Million Dollar Pursuit
The Enforcer
The Company She Keeps
Gasoline Alley
Blades of the Musketeers
Cyrano de Bergerac
Southside 1-1000
Emergency Wedding
Lux Video Theatre
Beyond the Purple Hills
Caged
Young Daniel Boone
The Great Rupert
Tarnished
Gun Crazy
Woman in Hiding
Dancing in the Dark
Easy Living
Flame of Youth
Once More, My Darling
The Lady Gambles
Bride of Vengeance
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Hideout
Another Part of the Forest
Black Bart
If You Knew Susie
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
They Won't Believe Me
Welcome Stranger
Blaze of Noon
Buck Privates Come Home
California
Calcutta
The Best Years of Our Lives
O.S.S.
The Well Groomed Bride
Behind Green Lights
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Getting Gertie's Garter
Midnight Manhunt
Crime, Inc.
Winged Victory
Power of the Press
Junior Army
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Smith of Minnesota
Lucky Legs
Sabotage Squad
The Talk of the Town
Meet the Stewarts
Not a Ladies' Man
Shut My Big Mouth
Harvard Here I Come
Honolulu Lu
Sing for Your Supper
Unholy Partners
The Blonde from Singapore
Texas
Two Latins from Manhattan
Sweetheart of the Campus
They Dare Not Love
She Knew All the Answers
The Big Boss
Under Age
Black Eyes and Blues
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
The Face Behind the Mask
The Phantom Submarine
This Thing Called Love
Beyond the Sacramento
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
West of Abilene
So You Won't Talk?
Glamour for Sale
The Spook Speaks
Before I Hang
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
The Secret Seven
Military Academy
Girls of the Road
Manhattan Heartbeat
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Texas Stagecoach
Island of Doomed Men
Men Without Souls
Escape to Glory
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
The Man from Tumbleweeds
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Blondie on a Budget
The Heckler
Convicted Woman
The Lone Wolf Strikes
You Nazty Spy!
Cafe Hostess
Mandrake the Magician
My Son Is Guilty
The Awful Goof
Three Sappy People
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Beware Spooks!
Scandal Sheet
Those High Grey Walls
Golden Boy
Konga, the Wild Stallion
The Man They Could Not Hang
Coast Guard
Good Girls Go to Paris
Missing Daughters
Mandrake the Magician
Union Pacific
Outside These Walls
Romance of the Redwoods
Blondie Meets the Boss
Flying G-Men
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
There's That Woman Again