Wesley Addy August 4 1913 December 31 1996 was an American actor He played many roles on the Broadway stage including several Shakespearean ones usually opposite actor Maurice Evans After playing two roles in one of Evanss productions of Hamlet he played Horatio opposite Evanss Hamlet in a 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the work the most prestigious American production of the play seen on TV up to that time Also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s Later during the 1970s1980s he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryans Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes NixonDouglas Marland serial Loving In motion pictures Addys career spanned four decades Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in several pictures such as Kiss Me Deadly The Big Knife both 1955 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane 1962 Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte 1964 and The Grissom Gang 1971 In 1976 Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefskys Network directed by Sidney Lumet They would work together again in The Verdict in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newmans case against a hospital for malpractice Another of Addys bestremembered roles was that of Lt Cdr Alvin Kramer who unsuccessfully tries to warn American officials of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora Tora Tora Addy was born as Robert Wesley Addy in Omaha Nebraska and died in Danbury Connecticut He was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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