
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.
Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Movie | How Do I Love Thee? | 1970-10-01 | |
Movie | Generation | 1969-12-15 | |
Movie | The Impossible Years | 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 |
Series | F Troop | Unknown | 1965-09-14 |
Series | Laredo | Unknown | 1965-09-16 |
Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
Series | Bewitched | Unknown | 1964-09-17 |
Movie | For Love or Money | Milo | 1963-08-07 |
Movie | Papa's Delicate Condition | Mayor Ghio's assistant | 1963-03-06 |
Series | Petticoat Junction | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Movie | Saintly Sinners | Father Dan Sheridan | 1962-02-01 |
Movie | Jack the Giant Killer | Imp | 1962-05-17 |
Series | Going My Way | Unknown | 1962-10-03 |
Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
Movie | Boy Who Caught a Crook | Colonel | 1961-10-01 |
Series | Straightaway | Unknown | 1961-10-06 |
Series | The Tom Ewell Show | Unknown | 1960-09-27 |
Movie | Warlock | Doctor Wagner | 1959-06-10 |
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 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | The Rawhide Years | Frank Porter | 1956-04-13 |
Movie | Behind the High Wall | Todd 'Mac' MacGregor | 1956-07-01 |
Movie | Tarzan's Hidden Jungle | Johnson | 1955-02-16 |
Movie | The Night of the Hunter | Walt Spoon | 1955-08-26 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Loophole | Herman Tate | 1954-03-28 |
Movie | Wyoming Renegades | Banker Horace Warren | 1954-03-27 |
Movie | River of No Return | Ben | 1954-04-30 |
Series | Lassie | Unknown | 1954-09-12 |
Movie | The Steel Cage | Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages" | 1954-12-01 |
Movie | The Clown | Gallagher | 1953-01-16 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | The System | Jerry Allen | 1953-04-18 |
Movie | The Band Wagon | Producer | 1953-08-07 |
Movie | Cow Country | Joe Davis | 1953-04-25 |
Movie | Hoodlum Empire | Sen. Blake | 1952-04-15 |
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 | Stop, You're Killing Me | Clyde Post | 1952-12-10 |
Movie | The Iron Mistress | Dr. Cuny | 1952-11-19 |
Movie | The Enforcer | Thomas O'Hara | 1951-02-24 |
Movie | Gasoline Alley | Walt Wallet | 1951-01-02 |
Movie | The Company She Keeps | Detective Jamieson | 1951-01-27 |
Movie | Rodeo King and the Senorita | Mr. Richards | 1951-07-15 |
Movie | Corky of Gasoline Alley | Walt Wallet | 1951-09-17 |
Movie | The Racket | Mitchell (uncredited) | 1951-10-25 |
Movie | Man in the Saddle | Love Bidwell (uncredited) | 1951-12-02 |
Movie | Behave Yourself! | Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited) | 1951-09-22 |
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 | 1950-01-20 |
Movie | Caged | Sam Walker | 1950-05-19 |
Movie | Young Daniel Boone | Charlie Bryan | 1950-03-05 |
Movie | Beyond the Purple Hills | Amos Rayburn | 1950-07-25 |
Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | The Meddler | 1950-11-14 |
Movie | Emergency Wedding | Forbish - Floorwalker | 1950-11-15 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | The Crime Doctor's Diary | Phillip Bellem | 1949-03-15 |
Movie | Hideout | Dr. Hamilton Gibbs | 1949-03-08 |
Movie | The Lady Gambles | Mr. Sutherland | 1949-05-20 |
Movie | Easy Living | Jaeger | 1949-10-08 |
Movie | Once More, My Darling | Judge Fraser | 1949-09-10 |
Movie | Dancing in the Dark | Barney Bassett | 1949-12-02 |
Movie | If You Knew Susie | Editor (uncredited) | 1948-02-07 |
Movie | Black Bart | J.T. Hall | 1948-03-03 |
Movie | Another Part of the Forest | Penniman | 1948-05-18 |
Movie | California | Stark (uncredited) | 1947-02-21 |
Movie | Buck Privates Come Home | Mr. Roberts (State Department) | 1947-04-04 |
Movie | Blaze of Noon | Mr. Fell | 1947-05-02 |
Movie | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Joey | 1947-09-01 |
Movie | They Won't Believe Me | Thomason | 1947-07-16 |
Movie | Welcome Stranger | Mort Elkins | 1947-06-13 |
Movie | The Notorious Lone Wolf | Stonley | 1946-02-14 |
Movie | Behind Green Lights | Yager | 1946-02-15 |
Movie | The Well Groomed Bride | Mr. Beatley | 1946-05-17 |
Movie | Calcutta | Jack Collins | 1946-12-20 |
Movie | O.S.S. | Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse | 1946-05-26 |
Movie | Midnight Manhunt | Detective Lt. 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 | Power of the Press | Pringle (uncredited) | 1943-01-29 |
Movie | The Talk of the Town | Police Chief | 1942-08-20 |
Movie | Sabotage Squad | Police Inspector Hanley | 1942-08-27 |
Movie | Meet the Stewarts | Taxi Driver | 1942-05-21 |
Movie | Shut My Big Mouth | Hill | 1942-02-19 |
Movie | Junior Army | Saginaw Jake | 1942-11-26 |
Movie | Lucky Legs | Ned McLane | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | The Boogie Man Will Get You | J. Gilbert Brampton | 1942-10-22 |
Movie | Smith of Minnesota | Lew Smith | 1942-10-15 |
Movie | She Knew All the Answers | Barber | 1941-05-13 |
Movie | They Dare Not Love | Second Sailor | 1941-05-16 |
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 | The Big Boss | Cliff Randall | 1941-04-28 |
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 | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | James Ross | 1940-05-02 |
Movie | Men Without Souls | Warden Schafer | 1940-05-20 |
Movie | The Doctor Takes a Wife | Morning Express Reporter | 1940-04-25 |
Movie | Island of Doomed Men | Brand | 1940-05-20 |
Movie | The Lone Wolf Strikes | Inspector Conroy | 1940-01-26 |
Movie | Cafe Hostess | Customer | 1940-01-11 |
Movie | Escape to Glory | Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson | 1940-05-20 |
Movie | Convicted Woman | Hank, a Reporter (uncredited) | 1940-01-31 |
Movie | The Heckler | Green Sox Manager | 1940-02-16 |
Movie | Blondie on a Budget | Marvin Williams | 1940-02-29 |
Movie | Beyond the Sacramento | Warden McKay | 1940-11-11 |
Movie | So You Won't Talk? | Cop | 1940-10-02 |
Movie | West of Abilene | Forsyth | 1940-10-20 |
Movie | The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date | Big Joe Brady | 1940-11-02 |
Movie | Texas Stagecoach | Tug Wilson | 1940-05-23 |
Movie | The Spook Speaks | Newlywed husband | 1940-09-20 |
Movie | This Thing Called Love | Tom Howland | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Police Doctor | 1940-05-30 |
Movie | Before I Hang | Capt. McGraw | 1940-09-17 |
Movie | Girls of the Road | Sheriff | 1940-07-24 |
Movie | Five Little Peppers in Trouble | Process Server | 1940-09-01 |
Movie | Union Pacific | Reporter (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 |
Movie | Good Girls Go to Paris | Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited) | 1939-06-20 |
Movie | Missing Daughters | Al Farrow | 1939-05-22 |
Movie | Mandrake the Magician | Frank Raymond | 1939-05-06 |
Movie | Romance of the Redwoods | Forbes | 1939-03-29 |
Movie | Coast Guard | Bartender (uncredited) | 1939-08-04 |
Movie | The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | Police Inspector Thomas | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | Blondie Meets the Boss | Marvin Williams | 1939-03-08 |
Movie | Outside These Walls | Dinky | 1939-05-04 |
Movie | Scandal Sheet | Chick Keller | 1939-10-16 |
Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Detective Deever | 1939-11-22 |
Movie | Three Sappy People | Rumsford | 1939-12-01 |
Movie | My Son is Guilty | Duke Mason | 1939-12-28 |
Movie | The Man They Could Not Hang | Lieutenant Shane | 1939-08-17 |
Movie | Beware Spooks! | Nick Bruno | 1939-10-24 |
Movie | Konga, the Wild Stallion | Fred Martin | 1939-08-30 |
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 |
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