Don Beddoe
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
Walt Spoon
The Night of the Hunter
Maj. Blaine
The Secret Seven
Marvin Williams
Blondie Meets the Boss
Marvin Williams
Blondie on a Budget
J. Gilbert Brampton
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Mr. Ballew
Don't Bother to Knock
Police Chief
The Talk of the Town
Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
The Narrow Margin
Imp
Jack the Giant Killer
Sen. Blake
Hoodlum Empire
Lieutenant Shane
The Man They Could Not Hang
Herman Tate
Loophole
Jamieson
The Company She Keeps
Thomason
They Won't Believe Me
Thomas O'Hara
The Enforcer
Mr. Roberts (State Department)
Buck Privates Come Home
Joey
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Constable Warren
Our Town
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
The Face Behind the Mask
Deputy District Attorney Dixon
Crime, Inc.
Producer (uncredited)
The Band Wagon
George Briggs
Flame of Youth
Mr. Dennis Sutherland
The Lady Gambles
Bartlett
The Phantom Submarine
Doctor Wagner
Warlock
Fat Salesman
Woman in Hiding
Borneo
Golden Boy
Yager
Behind Green Lights
Frederick Ross
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Bowen
Million Dollar Pursuit
Jerry Allen
The System
Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
Behind the High Wall
Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Jubilee Trail
Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
Winged Victory
W. S. Hamilton
Flying G-Men
'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
Not a Ladies' Man
Drunk (uncredited)
The Awful Goof
Pete (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet
Ed--Fingerprint Man
The Unknown Man
Mr. Haggerty (as Donald T. Beddoe)
The Great Rupert
Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Hideout
Charles Crocker
Carson City
Newlywed husband
The Spook Speaks
Barney Bassett
Dancing in the Dark
Sheriff
Girls of the Road
Johnson
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Sheriff Haggerty
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Inspector Conroy
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Phillip Bellem
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Clyde Post
Stop, You're Killing Me
Mike Reynolds
Unholy Partners
Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
O.S.S.
Dr. Cuny
The Iron Mistress
Stonley
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Brand
Island of Doomed Men
Jaeger
Easy Living
Alonzo
The Bogus Green
Judge Carr
Bullwhip
Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
The Steel Cage
Mort Elkins
Welcome Stranger
Rumsford
Three Sappy People
Cyrus Higbee
Blue Canadian Rockies
Chick Keller
Scandal Sheet
Cliff Randall
The Big Boss
Police Inspector Thomas
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
The Killer Is Loose
Jockey
Those High Grey Walls
Warden Schafer
Men Without Souls
J.T. Hall
Black Bart
Colonel
Boy Who Caught a Crook
Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
You Nazty Spy!
Ben (uncredited)
River of No Return
Dinky
Outside These Walls
Mayor Sam Pelley
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Walt Wallet
Gasoline Alley
Judge Fraser
Once More, My Darling
Tom Howland
This Thing Called Love
Amos Rayburn
Beyond the Purple Hills
Nick Bruno
Beware Spooks!
David Cooper
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Mr. Fell
Blaze of Noon
Milo
For Love or Money
Frank Raymond
Mandrake the Magician
Governor Dawson
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Father Dan Sheridan
Saintly Sinners
Reporter (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Walt Wallet
Corky of Gasoline Alley
Mr. Naylor
Texas Across the River
Forbish - Floorwalker
Emergency Wedding
Joe Davis
Cow Country
Sheriff Denby
Sweetheart of the Campus
Capt. McGraw
Before I Hang
Mayor Ghio's assistant
Papa's Delicate Condition
Fred Martin
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Jack Collins (uncredited)
Calcutta
Detective Deever
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Sheriff
Texas
Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
A Very Special Favor
Johnson
There's That Woman Again
Ragle
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Commissioner
Kilroy
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
Caged
Preston
Manhattan Heartbeat
Love Bidwell (uncredited)
Man in the Saddle
Mr. Goodman
Carrie
Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Good Girls Go to Paris
Banker Horace Warren
Wyoming Renegades
Bartender (uncredited)
Coast Guard
Self (archive footage)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Big Joe Brady
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Police Doctor
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Green Sox Manager
The Heckler
Tug Wilson
Texas Stagecoach
Councillor
Bride of Vengeance
Heckler at the Copacabana (uncredited)
The Joker is Wild
Taxi Driver
Meet the Stewarts
Hill
Shut My Big Mouth
Process Server
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Saginaw Jake
Junior Army
Clancy
Getting Gertie's Garter
Dr. Elliot Fish
The Impossible Years
Pringle (uncredited)
Power of the Press
Lew Smith
Smith of Minnesota
Hypo McGonigle
Harvard Here I Come
Sgt. Burns
The Blonde from Singapore
Albert Ward
Under Age
Al Farrow
Missing Daughters
Duke Mason
My Son Is Guilty
Forsyth
West of Abilene
Bennie Blanchard
Honolulu Lu
Police Inspector Hanley
Sabotage Squad
Forbes
Romance of the Redwoods
Mr. Richards
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
Midnight Manhunt
Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
Room for One More
Gallagher
The Clown
Editor (uncredited)
If You Knew Susie
Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Warden McKay
Beyond the Sacramento
Stark (uncredited)
California
Customer
Cafe Hostess
Gilbert
Generation
Ned McLane
Lucky Legs
Charlie Bryan
Young Daniel Boone
Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
Escape to Glory
King Louis XIII
Blades of the Musketeers
Frank Porter
The Rawhide Years
Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
Convicted Woman
Second Sailor
They Dare Not Love
Doc Cathey
Nickel Mountain
The Meddler
Cyrano de Bergerac
Don Barlow
Two Latins from Manhattan
Frank Regan
Glamour for Sale
Barber
She Knew All the Answers
Frank Raymond
Mandrake the Magician
Mr. Beatley
The Well Groomed Bride
Mr. Cameron
The Best Years of Our Lives
Wing Boley
Sing for Your Supper
Marty Lewis
Military Academy
Penniman
Another Part of the Forest
Phineas Q. Potts
Black Eyes and Blues
Mr. Walters
Pillow Talk
Chicago Man (uncredited)
Gun Crazy
Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
Behave Yourself!
Cop
So You Won't Talk?
Dr. Littlefield
How Do I Love Thee?
Mitchell (uncredited)
The Racket
Curtis Jellison
Tarnished
Mr. Wilson
A Fair Chance
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
170
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-07-01
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Donald Beddoe