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 Night of the Hunter
Walt Spoon
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Cameron
River of No Return
Ben (uncredited)
Pillow Talk
Mr. Walters
Warlock
Doctor Wagner
Gun Crazy
Chicago Man (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Reporter (uncredited)
Black Bart
J.T. Hall
The Face Behind the Mask
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
The Band Wagon
Producer (uncredited)
Don't Bother to Knock
Mr. Ballew
Woman in Hiding
Fat Salesman
Jack the Giant Killer
Imp
The Talk of the Town
Police Chief
The Enforcer
Thomas O'Hara
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Meddler
The Narrow Margin
Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
They Won't Believe Me
Thomason
The Company She Keeps
Jamieson
Caged
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home
Mr. Roberts (State Department)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Joey
The Racket
Mitchell (uncredited)
Winged Victory
Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
Texas
Sheriff
Texas Across the River
Mr. Naylor
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
The Lady Gambles
Mr. Dennis Sutherland
For Love or Money
Milo
Beware Spooks!
Nick Bruno
Carrie
Mr. Goodman
The Killer Is Loose
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
The Joker is Wild
Heckler at Copacabana (uncredited)
The Blonde from Singapore
Sgt. Burns
Carson City
Charles Crocker
Tarnished
Curtis Jellison
So You Won't Talk?
Cop
My Son Is Guilty
Duke Mason
The Rawhide Years
Frank Porter
Kilroy
Commissioner
Bride of Vengeance
Councillor
Man in the Saddle
Love Bidwell (uncredited)
Hideout
Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Johnson
Before I Hang
Capt. McGraw
Wyoming Renegades
Banker Horace Warren
Scandal Sheet
Pete (uncredited)
Men Without Souls
Warden Schafer
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Police Inspector Thomas
California
Stark (uncredited)
Golden Boy
Borneo
Room for One More
Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
The Unknown Man
Fingerprint Man
The Impossible Years
Elliot Fish
Welcome Stranger
Mort Elkins
Crime, Inc.
Deputy District Attorney Dixon
Bullwhip
Judge Carr
Honolulu Lu
Bennie Blanchard
Jubilee Trail
Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Papa's Delicate Condition
Mayor Ghio's assistant
This Thing Called Love
Tom Howland
Southside 1-1000
Slade
Easy Living
Jaeger
You Nazty Spy!
Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
Sabotage Squad
Police Inspector Hanley
Dancing in the Dark
Barney Bassett
Another Part of the Forest
Penniman
The Iron Mistress
Dr. Cuny
The Great Rupert
Mr. Haggerty
Junior Army
Saginaw Jake
Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond
Coast Guard
Bartender (uncredited)
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet
Calcutta
Jack Collins (uncredited)
O.S.S.
Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
Midnight Manhunt
Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
She Knew All the Answers
Barber
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Stonley
Blades of the Musketeers
King Louis XIII
Hoodlum Empire
Sen. Blake
Those High Grey Walls
Jockey
Cow Country
Joe Davis
Behind the High Wall
Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Mayor Sam Pelley
Generation
Gilbert
Island of Doomed Men
Brand
Harvard Here I Come
Hypo McGonigle
The Well Groomed Bride
Mr. Beatley
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Detective Deever
Blaze of Noon
Mr. Fell
The Miracle on 34th Street
Mr. Macy
A Very Special Favor
Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
Blondie on a Budget
Marvin Williams
The Big Boss
Cliff Randall
Lucky Legs
Ned McLane
Behind Green Lights
Yager (uncredited)
If You Knew Susie
Editor (uncredited)
Nickel Mountain
Doc Cathey
Good Girls Go to Paris
Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Shut My Big Mouth
Hill
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
David Cooper
Military Academy
Marty Lewis
Escape to Glory
Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
The Man They Could Not Hang
Lieutenant Shane
The Steel Cage
Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
They Dare Not Love
Second Sailor
Gasoline Alley
Walt Wallet
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Ragle
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Frederick Ross
A Bewitched Christmas
Santa Claus
Stop, You're Killing Me
Clyde Post
Once More, My Darling
Judge Fraser
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Phillip Bellem
There's That Woman Again
Johnson
Mandrake the Magician
Frank Raymond
Under Age
Albert Ward
Getting Gertie's Garter
Clancy
Behave Yourself!
Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
Power of the Press
Pringle (uncredited)
Cafe Hostess
Customer
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Governor Dawson
Flying G-Men
W. S. Hamilton
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Mr. Richards
The Awful Goof
Drunk (uncredited)
Blondie Meets the Boss
Marvin Williams
Our Town
Constable Warren
Beyond the Sacramento
Warden McKay
Meet the Stewarts
Taxi Driver
The Secret Seven
Maj. Blaine
West of Abilene
Forsyth
How Do I Love Thee?
Dr. Littlefield
Sing for Your Supper
Wing Boley
Glamour for Sale
Frank Regan
Saintly Sinners
Father Dan Sheridan
The System
Jerry Allen
Outside These Walls
Dinky
Convicted Woman
Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
The Boogie Man Will Get You
J. Gilbert Brampton
Two Latins from Manhattan
Don Barlow
Three Sappy People
Rumsford
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Big Joe Brady
Flame of Youth
George Briggs
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Fred Martin
Emergency Wedding
Forbish - Floorwalker
Beyond the Purple Hills
Amos Rayburn
Million Dollar Pursuit
Bowen
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Process Server
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Police Doctor
Young Daniel Boone
Charlie Bryan
The Clown
Gallagher
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Sheriff Haggerty
Missing Daughters
Al Farrow
Loophole
Herman Tate
Girls of the Road
Sheriff
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Inspector Conroy
Unholy Partners
Mike Reynolds
The Spook Speaks
Newlywed husband
Blue Canadian Rockies
Cyrus Higbee
The Phantom Submarine
Bartlett
Invitation to a Gunfighter
McKeever
Not a Ladies' Man
'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
Scandal Sheet
Chick Keller
Romance of the Redwoods
Forbes
Sweetheart of the Campus
Sheriff Denby
Manhattan Heartbeat
Preston
Smith of Minnesota
Lew Smith
Texas Stagecoach
Tug Wilson
The Heckler
Green Sox Manager (uncredited)
Boy Who Caught a Crook
Colonel
TV Shows (58)
Perry Mason
George Norris · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Dr. Blane · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Carter Farraday · 1 eps
Lassie
3 eps
Bonanza
Stan Perkins · 1 eps
Bewitched
1 eps
Little House on the Prairie
1 eps
Mannix
1 eps
The Lucy Show
Mr. Barmarche · 1 eps
Wagon Train
Judge · 1 eps
The Wild Wild West
Prof. Robey · 1 eps
Father Knows Best
Mr. Lydom · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
4 eps
Maverick
2 eps
Maverick
Price · 1 eps
Cheyenne
2 eps
Rawhide
Hood · 1 eps
Rawhide
Minister · 1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
Mr. Vickers · 1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
Mr. Thompson · 1 eps
Lawman
2 eps
Petticoat Junction
Dr. Joseph Depew · 1 eps
Route 66
1 eps
Gunsmoke
Halligan · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Burt · 1 eps
One Step Beyond
Doc Simmons · 1 eps
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Lieutenant Stone · 1 eps
The Millionaire
Dan Larsen · 1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mr. Taylor · 1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mr. Macy · 1 eps
The Texan
1 eps
Bronco
1 eps
Laredo
1 eps
Mayberry R.F.D.
G.B. Smith · 1 eps
F Troop
1 eps
Nanny and the Professor
Mr. Thatcher · 3 eps
The Gale Storm Show
McDuff · 1 eps
Pete and Gladys
2 eps
Public Defender
1 eps
Cain's Hundred
Clem Burgess · 1 eps
Ensign O'Toole
Admiral Hornsby · 1 eps
Mr. & Mrs. North
1 eps
The Alaskans
1 eps
Wire Service
Raisner · 1 eps
Hey, Jeannie!
Hornblower · 1 eps
Straightaway
1 eps
The Tom Ewell Show
1 eps
Going My Way
1 eps
General Electric Theater
Dr. Harvey · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Ticket Agent · 1 eps
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
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
The Second Hundred Years
Old Man Tolliver · 1 eps
The O. Henry Playhouse
Maximillian Jones · 1 eps
Your Jeweler's Showcase
Charlie · 1 eps
