Don Beddoe

Known for ActingBorn 1903-07-01Died 1991-01-19Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Young Daniel Boone

Flame of Youth

The Secret Seven

West of Abilene

Konga, the Wild Stallion

Our Town

Straightaway

The Tom Ewell Show

Wire Service

Beyond the Purple Hills

Smith of Minnesota

Lucky Legs

Black Eyes and Blues

Texas Stagecoach

Beyond the Sacramento

Outside These Walls

Beware Spooks!

This Thing Called Love

Shut My Big Mouth

Little House on the Prairie

The Joker is Wild

Conflict

Bewitched

Corky of Gasoline Alley

Blades of the Musketeers

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Sing for Your Supper

The Night of the Hunter

Manhattan Heartbeat

Flying G-Men

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

The Best Years of Our Lives

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

The Wild Wild West

Another Part of the Forest

Stop, You're Killing Me

Unholy Partners

Gun Crazy

Sabotage Squad

Under Age

They Dare Not Love

Escape to Glory

My Son Is Guilty

Have Gun, Will Travel

Rawhide

The Narrow Margin