Don Beddoe
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-07-01
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cast
The Night of the Hunter
1955
7.86
The Secret Seven
1940
0.00
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
5.80
Blondie on a Budget
1940
6.00
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
6.10
Don't Bother to Knock
1952
6.60
The Talk of the Town
1942
7.32
The Narrow Margin
1952
7.28
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
6.50
Hoodlum Empire
1952
6.10
The Man They Could Not Hang
1939
6.64
Loophole
1954
6.60
The Company She Keeps
1951
5.90
They Won't Believe Me
1947
6.52
The Enforcer
1951
7.13
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
6.30
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
6.90
Our Town
1977
9.00
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
6.50
Crime, Inc.
1945
4.20
The Band Wagon
1953
7.20
Flame of Youth
1949
0.00
The Lady Gambles
1949
6.00
The Phantom Submarine
1940
6.00
Warlock
1959
6.73
Woman in Hiding
1950
6.20
Golden Boy
1939
6.49
Behind Green Lights
1946
5.48
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
6.87
Million Dollar Pursuit
1951
5.80
The System
1953
4.80
Behind the High Wall
1956
5.10
Jubilee Trail
1954
4.80
Winged Victory
1944
5.50
Flying G-Men
1939
6.00
Not a Ladies' Man
1942
5.67
The Awful Goof
1939
0.00
Scandal Sheet
1952
6.90
The Unknown Man
1951
4.80
The Great Rupert
1950
5.68
Hideout
1949
5.67
Carson City
1952
6.10
The Spook Speaks
1940
5.20
Dancing in the Dark
1949
5.00
Girls of the Road
1940
5.00
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
4.90
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
6.00
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
6.30
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949
5.70
Stop, You're Killing Me
1952
5.00
Unholy Partners
1941
7.00
O.S.S.
1946
6.62
The Iron Mistress
1952
5.00
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946
5.50
Island of Doomed Men
1940
5.40
Easy Living
1949
5.60
The Bogus Green
1951
0.00
Bullwhip
1958
4.40
The Steel Cage
1954
0.00
Welcome Stranger
1947
6.60
Three Sappy People
1939
6.60
Blue Canadian Rockies
1952
0.00
Scandal Sheet
1939
0.00
The Big Boss
1941
5.80
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
6.62
The Killer Is Loose
1956
6.64
Those High Grey Walls
1939
6.20
Men Without Souls
1940
6.00
Black Bart
1948
4.50
Boy Who Caught a Crook
1961
5.00
You Nazty Spy!
1940
7.20
River of No Return
1954
6.67
Outside These Walls
1939
7.50
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957
5.82
Gasoline Alley
1951
5.33
Once More, My Darling
1949
5.70
This Thing Called Love
1940
8.00
Beyond the Purple Hills
1950
0.00
Beware Spooks!
1939
7.00
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
6.00
Blaze of Noon
1947
4.00
For Love or Money
1963
5.70
Mandrake the Magician
1939
5.60
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940
3.00
Saintly Sinners
1962
3.00
Union Pacific
1939
6.62
Corky of Gasoline Alley
1951
0.00
Texas Across the River
1966
5.60
Emergency Wedding
1950
5.50
Cow Country
1953
3.93
Sweetheart of the Campus
1941
5.00
Before I Hang
1940
6.16
Papa's Delicate Condition
1963
5.40
Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939
0.00
Calcutta
1946
6.30
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
5.80
Texas
1941
6.50
A Very Special Favor
1965
5.70
There's That Woman Again
1938
5.75
A Star Is Born
1954
7.14
Kilroy
1965
0.00
Caged
1950
7.06
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
0.00
Man in the Saddle
1951
6.40
Carrie
1952
6.40
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
6.95
Wyoming Renegades
1954
5.80
Coast Guard
1939
5.00
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
5.90
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
6.30
The Heckler
1940
5.00
Texas Stagecoach
1940
0.00
Bride of Vengeance
1949
4.50
The Joker is Wild
1957
8.00
Meet the Stewarts
1942
4.30
Shut My Big Mouth
1942
8.50
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
6.50
Junior Army
1942
5.70
Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
3.00
The Impossible Years
1968
5.10
Power of the Press
1943
6.20
Smith of Minnesota
1942
0.00
Harvard Here I Come
1941
5.00
The Blonde from Singapore
1941
5.00
Under Age
1941
6.00
Missing Daughters
1939
3.00
My Son Is Guilty
1939
6.67
West of Abilene
1940
0.00
Honolulu Lu
1941
4.20
Sabotage Squad
1942
6.00
Romance of the Redwoods
1939
6.00
Rodeo King and the Senorita
1951
0.00
Midnight Manhunt
1945
4.46
Room for One More
1952
6.50
The Clown
1953
5.25
If You Knew Susie
1948
7.50
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
6.40
Beyond the Sacramento
1940
0.00
California
1947
6.83
Cafe Hostess
1940
5.30
Generation
1969
4.50
Lucky Legs
1942
0.00
Young Daniel Boone
1950
0.00
Escape to Glory
1940
6.00
Blades of the Musketeers
1950
0.00
The Rawhide Years
1956
5.50
Convicted Woman
1940
3.40
They Dare Not Love
1941
6.00
Nickel Mountain
1984
3.60
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
6.80
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
5.00
Glamour for Sale
1940
4.25
She Knew All the Answers
1941
6.50
Mandrake the Magician
1940
5.00
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
4.00
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
7.77
Sing for Your Supper
1941
6.00
Military Academy
1940
5.50
Another Part of the Forest
1948
7.60
Black Eyes and Blues
1941
0.00
Pillow Talk
1959
7.13
Gun Crazy
1950
7.40
Behave Yourself!
1951
6.00
So You Won't Talk?
1940
5.00
How Do I Love Thee?
1970
3.25
The Racket
1951
6.30
Tarnished
1950
5.80
A Fair Chance
1954
0.00
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1957
0.00
Southside 1-1000
1950
5.88
A Bewitched Christmas
1994
0.00
The Miracle on 34th Street
1955
5.21