Don Beddoe
American character actor. raised in New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio, Beddoe was the son of a professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music who happened also to be the world-famous Welsh tenor, Dan Beddoe. Although Don Beddoe intended a career in journalism, he took an interest in theatre and became involved first with amateur companies and then with professional theatre troupes. He debuted on Broadway in 1929 and kept up a decade-long career on the stage. Although said to have made some minor appearances in silent films, Beddoe made his real transfer to film work in 1938. He appeared in a wide range of supporting roles in literally scores of films, often as either a fast-talking reporter or as a mousey sort. He became one of the most readily familiar faces in Hollywood movies, despite remaining almost unknown by name outside the industry. Following service in the Army Air Corps during the Second World War, he continued to work steadily in small roles, complementing them with television work. Despite advancing (and very ripe old) age, he remained quite active, supplementing his acting work with a second career in real estate. He died 19 January 1991, in Laguna Hills, California, of natural causes.
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- Born:
- Jul 1, 1903 In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 170
- First Appeared:
- In the movie There's That Woman Again 1938-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star 1991-03-10
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self (archive footage) | 1991-03-10 |
| Movie | Our Town | Constable Warren | 1977-05-30 |
| Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
| Movie | How Do I Love Thee? | Dr. Littlefield | 1970-10-01 |
| Movie | Generation | Gilbert | 1969-12-15 |
| Movie | The Impossible Years | Dr. Elliot Fish | 1968-12-05 |
| Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
| Series | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | Unknown | 1966-09-17 |
| Movie | Texas Across the River | Mr. Naylor | 1966-10-26 |
| Movie | A Very Special Favor | Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited) | 1965-08-02 |
| Series | F Troop | Unknown | 1965-09-14 |
| Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
| Series | Laredo | Unknown | 1965-09-16 |
| Series | Bewitched | Unknown | 1964-09-17 |
| Movie | Papa's Delicate Condition | Mayor Ghio's assistant | 1963-03-06 |
| Movie | For Love or Money | Milo | 1963-08-07 |
| Series | Petticoat Junction | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
| Movie | Saintly Sinners | Father Dan Sheridan | 1962-02-01 |
| Movie | Jack the Giant Killer | Imp | 1962-05-18 |
| Movie | Boy Who Caught a Crook | Colonel | 1961-10-01 |
| Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
| Series | Straightaway | Unknown | 1961-10-06 |
| Series | The Tom Ewell Show | Unknown | 1960-09-27 |
| Movie | Warlock | Doctor Wagner | 1959-05-15 |
| Series | The Alaskans | Unknown | 1959-10-04 |
| Movie | The Toughest Gun in Tombstone | David Cooper | 1958-05-14 |
| Movie | Bullwhip | Judge Carr | 1958-05-25 |
| Series | Lawman | Unknown | 1958-10-05 |
| Series | Bronco | Unknown | 1958-09-23 |
| Movie | Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend | Mayor Sam Pelley | 1957-05-04 |
| Series | Have Gun, Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
| Movie | The Joker is Wild | Heckler at the Copacabana (uncredited) | 1957-09-26 |
| Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
| Movie | The Killer Is Loose | Mr. Freeman (uncredited) | 1956-02-03 |
| Movie | Behind the High Wall | Todd 'Mac' MacGregor | 1956-07-01 |
| Movie | The Rawhide Years | Frank Porter | 1956-07-01 |
| Movie | Tarzan's Hidden Jungle | Johnson | 1955-02-16 |
| Movie | The Night of the Hunter | Walt Spoon | 1955-08-26 |
| Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
| Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
| Movie | Loophole | Herman Tate | 1954-03-28 |
| Movie | River of No Return | Ben (uncredited) | 1954-04-30 |
| Movie | Wyoming Renegades | Banker Horace Warren | 1954-03-27 |
| Movie | The Steel Cage | Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages" | 1954-12-01 |
| Movie | Jubilee Trail | Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited) | 1954-05-15 |
| Movie | A Star Is Born | Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited) | 1954-10-01 |
| Series | Lassie | Unknown | 1954-09-12 |
| Movie | The Clown | Gallagher | 1953-01-16 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | The System | Jerry Allen | 1953-04-18 |
| Movie | Cow Country | Joe Davis | 1953-04-25 |
| Movie | The Band Wagon | Producer (uncredited) | 1953-08-07 |
| Movie | Hoodlum Empire | Sen. Blake | 1952-04-15 |
| Movie | Scandal Sheet | Pete (uncredited) | 1952-01-16 |
| Movie | Room for One More | Mr. Taylor (uncredited) | 1952-01-10 |
| Movie | Carson City | Charles Crocker | 1952-06-13 |
| Movie | Blue Canadian Rockies | Cyrus Higbee | 1952-11-30 |
| Movie | Don't Bother to Knock | Mr. Ballew | 1952-07-18 |
| Movie | The Iron Mistress | Dr. Cuny | 1952-11-19 |
| Movie | Stop, You're Killing Me | Clyde Post | 1952-12-10 |
| Movie | The Enforcer | Thomas O'Hara | 1951-02-24 |
| Movie | Gasoline Alley | Walt Wallet | 1951-01-02 |
| Movie | Million Dollar Pursuit | Bowen | 1951-05-30 |
| Movie | The Company She Keeps | Detective Jamieson | 1951-01-27 |
| Movie | Behave Yourself! | Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited) | 1951-09-22 |
| Movie | Rodeo King and the Senorita | Mr. Richards | 1951-07-15 |
| Movie | The Racket | Mitchell (uncredited) | 1951-10-25 |
| Movie | Man in the Saddle | Love Bidwell (uncredited) | 1951-12-02 |
| Movie | Corky of Gasoline Alley | Walt Wallet | 1951-09-17 |
| Movie | The Great Rupert | Mr. Haggerty (as Donald T. Beddoe) | 1950-03-01 |
| Movie | Tarnished | Curtis Jellison | 1950-02-28 |
| Movie | Gun Crazy | Chicago Man (uncredited) | 1950-01-20 |
| Movie | Young Daniel Boone | Charlie Bryan | 1950-03-05 |
| Movie | Beyond the Purple Hills | Amos Rayburn | 1950-07-25 |
| Movie | Caged | Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited) | 1950-05-19 |
| Movie | Emergency Wedding | Forbish - Floorwalker | 1950-11-15 |
| Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | The Meddler | 1950-11-16 |
| Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
| Movie | Bride of Vengeance | Councillor | 1949-04-07 |
| Movie | The Lady Gambles | Mr. Dennis Sutherland | 1949-05-20 |
| Movie | The Crime Doctor's Diary | Phillip Bellem | 1949-03-15 |
| Movie | Hideout | Dr. Hamilton Gibbs | 1949-03-08 |
| Movie | Once More, My Darling | Judge Fraser | 1949-09-10 |
| Movie | Dancing in the Dark | Barney Bassett | 1949-12-02 |
| Movie | Easy Living | Jaeger | 1949-10-08 |
| Movie | If You Knew Susie | Editor (uncredited) | 1948-02-07 |
| Movie | Black Bart | J.T. Hall | 1948-02-17 |
| Movie | Another Part of the Forest | Penniman | 1948-05-18 |
| Movie | Buck Privates Come Home | Mr. Roberts (State Department) | 1947-04-04 |
| Movie | California | Stark (uncredited) | 1947-02-21 |
| Movie | Blaze of Noon | Mr. Fell | 1947-05-02 |
| Movie | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Joey | 1947-09-01 |
| Movie | Welcome Stranger | Mort Elkins | 1947-06-13 |
| Movie | They Won't Believe Me | Thomason | 1947-07-16 |
| Movie | The Notorious Lone Wolf | Stonley | 1946-02-14 |
| Movie | Behind Green Lights | Yager | 1946-02-15 |
| Movie | Calcutta | Jack Collins (uncredited) | 1946-12-20 |
| Movie | The Well Groomed Bride | Mr. Beatley | 1946-05-17 |
| Movie | O.S.S. | Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse | 1946-05-26 |
| Movie | Midnight Manhunt | Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley | 1945-07-27 |
| Movie | Crime, Inc. | Deputy District Attorney Dixon | 1945-04-15 |
| Movie | Getting Gertie's Garter | Clancy | 1945-11-27 |
| Movie | Winged Victory | Chaplain on Beach (uncredited) | 1944-12-22 |
| Movie | Power of the Press | Pringle (uncredited) | 1943-01-29 |
| Movie | Meet the Stewarts | Taxi Driver | 1942-05-21 |
| Movie | Shut My Big Mouth | Hill | 1942-02-19 |
| Movie | Sabotage Squad | Police Inspector Hanley | 1942-08-27 |
| Movie | The Talk of the Town | Police Chief | 1942-08-20 |
| Movie | Lucky Legs | Ned McLane | 1942-10-01 |
| Movie | Smith of Minnesota | Lew Smith | 1942-10-15 |
| Movie | The Boogie Man Will Get You | J. Gilbert Brampton | 1942-10-22 |
| Movie | Junior Army | Saginaw Jake | 1942-11-26 |
| Movie | She Knew All the Answers | Barber | 1941-05-13 |
| Movie | They Dare Not Love | Second Sailor | 1941-05-16 |
| Movie | The Big Boss | Cliff Randall | 1941-04-28 |
| Movie | The Face Behind the Mask | Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara | 1941-01-16 |
| Movie | Sweetheart of the Campus | Sheriff Denby | 1941-06-26 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance | Sheriff Haggerty | 1941-03-06 |
| Movie | Under Age | Albert Ward | 1941-04-23 |
| Movie | Honolulu Lu | Bennie Blanchard | 1941-12-11 |
| Movie | Two Latins from Manhattan | Don Barlow | 1941-10-02 |
| Movie | Unholy Partners | Mike Reynolds | 1941-11-01 |
| Movie | Harvard Here I Come | Hypo McGonigle | 1941-12-18 |
| Movie | Texas | Sheriff | 1941-10-09 |
| Movie | The Blonde from Singapore | Sgt. Burns | 1941-10-15 |
| Movie | The Man from Tumbleweeds | Governor Dawson | 1940-05-02 |
| Movie | The Doctor Takes a Wife | Morning Express Reporter (uncredited) | 1940-04-25 |
| Movie | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Frederick Ross | 1940-05-02 |
| Movie | Men Without Souls | Warden Schafer | 1940-05-20 |
| Movie | Blondie on a Budget | Marvin Williams | 1940-02-29 |
| Movie | Island of Doomed Men | Brand | 1940-05-20 |
| Movie | You Nazty Spy! | Mr. Amscray (uncredited) | 1940-01-19 |
| Movie | Escape to Glory | Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson | 1940-05-20 |
| Movie | Cafe Hostess | Customer | 1940-01-11 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Strikes | Inspector Conroy | 1940-01-26 |
| Movie | Convicted Woman | Hank, a Reporter (uncredited) | 1940-01-31 |
| Movie | The Heckler | Green Sox Manager | 1940-02-16 |
| Movie | This Thing Called Love | Tom Howland | 1940-12-20 |
| Movie | West of Abilene | Forsyth | 1940-10-20 |
| Movie | So You Won't Talk? | Cop | 1940-10-02 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date | Big Joe Brady | 1940-11-02 |
| Movie | The Phantom Submarine | Bartlett | 1940-12-20 |
| Movie | Texas Stagecoach | Tug Wilson | 1940-05-23 |
| Movie | The Spook Speaks | Newlywed husband | 1940-09-20 |
| Movie | Beyond the Sacramento | Warden McKay | 1940-11-11 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Police Doctor | 1940-05-30 |
| Movie | Before I Hang | Capt. McGraw | 1940-09-17 |
| Movie | Manhattan Heartbeat | Preston | 1940-07-11 |
| Movie | Girls of the Road | Sheriff | 1940-07-24 |
| Movie | Five Little Peppers in Trouble | Process Server | 1940-09-01 |
| Movie | Mandrake the Magician | Frank Raymond | 1939-05-06 |
| Movie | Missing Daughters | Al Farrow | 1939-05-22 |
| Movie | Union Pacific | Reporter (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 |
| Movie | Good Girls Go to Paris | Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited) | 1939-06-20 |
| Movie | Blondie Meets the Boss | Marvin Williams | 1939-03-08 |
| Movie | Coast Guard | Bartender (uncredited) | 1939-08-04 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | Police Inspector Thomas | 1939-01-27 |
| Movie | Romance of the Redwoods | Forbes | 1939-03-29 |
| Movie | Outside These Walls | Dinky | 1939-05-04 |
| Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Detective Deever | 1939-11-22 |
| Movie | Three Sappy People | Rumsford | 1939-12-01 |
| Movie | The Awful Goof | Drunk (uncredited) | 1939-12-20 |
| Movie | My Son Is Guilty | Duke Mason | 1939-12-28 |
| Movie | Beware Spooks! | Nick Bruno | 1939-10-24 |
| Movie | Scandal Sheet | Chick Keller | 1939-10-16 |
| Movie | Konga, the Wild Stallion | Fred Martin | 1939-08-30 |
| Movie | The Man They Could Not Hang | Lieutenant Shane | 1939-08-17 |
| Movie | Golden Boy | Borneo | 1939-09-05 |
| Movie | Those High Grey Walls | Jockey | 1939-09-21 |
| Movie | There's That Woman Again | Johnson | 1938-12-24 |