Don Beddoe
Acting
Born: July 1, 1903 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: January 19, 1991 (aged 87)
Highest Rated
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
The Night of the Hunter
1955
Little House on the Prairie
1974
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Bewitched
1964
River of No Return
1954
A Star Is Born
1954
Pillow Talk
1959
Gun Crazy
1950
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Band Wagon
1953
The Narrow Margin
1952
Warlock
1959
Photos (2)
Movies (170)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Cameron
The Band Wagon
Producer (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
The Night of the Hunter
Walt Spoon
The Racket
Mitchell (uncredited)
Texas Across the River
Mr. Naylor
The Narrow Margin
Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Joey
The Killer Is Loose
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
Another Part of the Forest
Penniman
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Johnson
Gun Crazy
Chicago Man (uncredited)
The Talk of the Town
Police Chief
Carson City
Charles Crocker
Buck Privates Come Home
Mr. Roberts (State Department)
River of No Return
Ben (uncredited)
The Lady Gambles
Mr. Dennis Sutherland
They Dare Not Love
Second Sailor
Carrie
Mr. Goodman
Pillow Talk
Mr. Walters
Union Pacific
Reporter (uncredited)
Don't Bother to Knock
Mr. Ballew
Jack the Giant Killer
Imp
Room for One More
Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
Jubilee Trail
Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Harvard Here I Come
Hypo McGonigle
They Won't Believe Me
Thomason
O.S.S.
Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
Easy Living
Jaeger
Black Bart
J.T. Hall
Golden Boy
Borneo
Hoodlum Empire
Sen. Blake
Warlock
Doctor Wagner
Dancing in the Dark
Barney Bassett
The Impossible Years
Elliot Fish
Honolulu Lu
Bennie Blanchard
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Detective Deever
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
David Cooper
Man in the Saddle
Love Bidwell (uncredited)
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
Mayor Sam Pelley
A Very Special Favor
Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
The Joker is Wild
Heckler at Copacabana (uncredited)
Before I Hang
Capt. McGraw
The Clown
Gallagher
Winged Victory
Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
The Enforcer
Thomas O'Hara
The Unknown Man
Fingerprint Man
Caged
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
The Iron Mistress
Dr. Cuny
Coast Guard
Bartender (uncredited)
The Secret Seven
Maj. Blaine
Bride of Vengeance
Councillor
Crime, Inc.
Deputy District Attorney Dixon
California
Stark (uncredited)
For Love or Money
Milo
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Frederick Ross
The Company She Keeps
Jamieson
Convicted Woman
Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Meddler
The Phantom Submarine
Bartlett
Papa's Delicate Condition
Mayor Ghio's assistant
Good Girls Go to Paris
Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Woman in Hiding
Fat Salesman
Those High Grey Walls
Jockey
The Well Groomed Bride
Mr. Beatley
Behind the High Wall
Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
The Man They Could Not Hang
Lieutenant Shane
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Police Inspector Thomas
Shut My Big Mouth
Hill
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Phillip Bellem
Unholy Partners
Mike Reynolds
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Police Doctor
The Rawhide Years
Frank Porter
Scandal Sheet
Pete (uncredited)
The Miracle on 34th Street
Mr. Macy
Meet the Stewarts
Taxi Driver
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Stonley
This Thing Called Love
Tom Howland
Southside 1-1000
Slade
Island of Doomed Men
Brand
Nickel Mountain
Doc Cathey
How Do I Love Thee?
Dr. Littlefield
The System
Jerry Allen
Once More, My Darling
Judge Fraser
Wyoming Renegades
Banker Horace Warren
Blades of the Musketeers
King Louis XIII
Romance of the Redwoods
Forbes
Midnight Manhunt
Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
Welcome Stranger
Mort Elkins
Emergency Wedding
Forbish - Floorwalker
Girls of the Road
Sheriff
You Nazty Spy!
Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
Beware Spooks!
Nick Bruno
Sabotage Squad
Police Inspector Hanley
Behind Green Lights
Yager (uncredited)
Two Latins from Manhattan
Don Barlow
Blondie Meets the Boss
Marvin Williams
Kilroy
Commissioner
Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond
The Face Behind the Mask
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
My Son Is Guilty
Duke Mason
The Boogie Man Will Get You
J. Gilbert Brampton
Behave Yourself!
Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Inspector Conroy
Outside These Walls
Dinky
She Knew All the Answers
Barber
There's That Woman Again
Johnson
Scandal Sheet
Chick Keller
Invitation to a Gunfighter
McKeever
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Sheriff Haggerty
So You Won't Talk?
Cop
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Process Server
Blondie on a Budget
Marvin Williams
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
Texas
Sheriff
Three Sappy People
Rumsford
Lucky Legs
Ned McLane
Getting Gertie's Garter
Clancy
Power of the Press
Pringle (uncredited)
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet
Not a Ladies' Man
'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet
Generation
Gilbert
The Blonde from Singapore
Sgt. Burns
The Great Rupert
Mr. Haggerty
If You Knew Susie
Editor (uncredited)
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Fred Martin
Junior Army
Saginaw Jake
Cafe Hostess
Customer
Saintly Sinners
Father Dan Sheridan
Loophole
Herman Tate
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Ragle
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Governor Dawson
Bullwhip
Judge Carr
Tarnished
Curtis Jellison
Men Without Souls
Warden Schafer
Calcutta
Jack Collins (uncredited)
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Mr. Richards
Hideout
Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Beyond the Purple Hills
Amos Rayburn
Cow Country
Joe Davis
Stop, You're Killing Me
Clyde Post
Texas Stagecoach
Tug Wilson
Sweetheart of the Campus
Sheriff Denby
Our Town
Constable Warren
Boy Who Caught a Crook
Colonel
Under Age
Albert Ward
Blaze of Noon
Mr. Fell
Sing for Your Supper
Wing Boley
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Big Joe Brady
The Big Boss
Cliff Randall
The Steel Cage
Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
Glamour for Sale
Frank Regan
Million Dollar Pursuit
Bowen
The Spook Speaks
Newlywed husband
Young Daniel Boone
Charlie Bryan
Beyond the Sacramento
Warden McKay
The Awful Goof
Drunk (uncredited)
Flame of Youth
George Briggs
Flying G-Men
W. S. Hamilton
West of Abilene
Forsyth
A Bewitched Christmas
Santa Claus
Escape to Glory
Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
Missing Daughters
Al Farrow
Military Academy
Marty Lewis
Manhattan Heartbeat
Preston
Blue Canadian Rockies
Cyrus Higbee
Smith of Minnesota
Lew Smith
The Heckler
Green Sox Manager (uncredited)
Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond
TV Shows (60)
Perry Mason
George Norris · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Dr. Blane · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Carter Farraday · 1 eps
Mannix
1 eps
Bonanza
Stan Perkins · 1 eps
Bewitched
1 eps
Little House on the Prairie
1 eps
Wagon Train
Judge · 1 eps
Maverick
2 eps
Maverick
Price · 1 eps
Lassie
3 eps
Petticoat Junction
Dr. Joseph Depew · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
4 eps
Cheyenne
2 eps
The Wild Wild West
Prof. Robey · 1 eps
The Lucy Show
Mr. Barmarche · 1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
Mr. Vickers · 1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
Mr. Thompson · 1 eps
Route 66
1 eps
Rawhide
Hood · 1 eps
Rawhide
Minister · 1 eps
Lawman
2 eps
One Step Beyond
Doc Simmons · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Halligan · 1 eps
Father Knows Best
Mr. Lydom · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Burt · 1 eps
Nanny and the Professor
Mr. Thatcher · 3 eps
The Texan
1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mr. Taylor · 1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mr. Macy · 1 eps
Bronco
1 eps
Mayberry R.F.D.
G.B. Smith · 1 eps
Laredo
1 eps
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Lieutenant Stone · 1 eps
The Millionaire
Dan Larsen · 1 eps
Mr. & Mrs. North
1 eps
F Troop
1 eps
Public Defender
1 eps
Lux Video Theatre
Paul · 1 eps
Lux Video Theatre
Judge · 1 eps
Pete and Gladys
2 eps
The Gale Storm Show
McDuff · 1 eps
The Alaskans
1 eps
Going My Way
1 eps
Cain's Hundred
Clem Burgess · 1 eps
The Second Hundred Years
Old Man Tolliver · 1 eps
Ensign O'Toole
Admiral Hornsby · 1 eps
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1 eps
Hey, Jeannie!
Hornblower · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Uncle Charles · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Nicholas Barton · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Bill Holmes · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Mr. Stacy · 1 eps
Wire Service
Raisner · 1 eps
Straightaway
1 eps
The Tom Ewell Show
1 eps
General Electric Theater
Dr. Harvey · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Ticket Agent · 1 eps
The O. Henry Playhouse
Maximillian Jones · 1 eps
Your Jeweler's Showcase
Charlie · 1 eps
