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David Wayne

1914 - 1995

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David Wayne (born Wayne James McMeekan; January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American actor and singer, with a stage and screen career spanning over 50 years. He was a recipient of two Tony Awards, Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Finian's Rainbow and Best Actor in a Play for The Teahouse of the August Moon, with a third nomination for The Happy Time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). David Wayne is the 5,366th most popular actor (down from 4,288th in 2024), the 8,339th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,293rd in 2019) and the 2,456th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, David Wayne ranks 5,366 out of 13,578. Before him are Mildred Dunnock, Rita Gam, Inge Meysel, James Eckhouse, Werner Peters, and Solveig Dommartin. After him are Ruth Brown, Çağatay Ulusoy, Roscoe Lee Browne, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Xavier Dolan, and Jennifer Ehle.

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Among people born in 1914, David Wayne ranks 324. Before him are Amelia Bence, Sven Fahlman, Georgy Babakin, John Hersey, Alessandro Frigerio, and Claude Mauriac. After him are Zdeněk Škrland, Jan de Hartog, Bruce M. Metzger, Carl Foreman, Shaken Aimanov, and Hank Snow. Among people deceased in 1995, David Wayne ranks 262. Before him are Henry Roth, Michael Hordern, Severino Varela, George Rodger, Sabir Yunusov, and Prawitz Öberg. After him are Reinhard Furrer, María Luisa Bemberg, Benjamin Mazar, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, John Peters Humphrey, and Edmondo Fabbri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Wayne ranks 8,341 out of 20,380. Before him are Carolee Schneemann (1939), Adam Silver (1962), John Eisenhower (1922), George Tenet (1953), Dorothea Dix (1802), and Mike Stern (1953). After him are Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930), Ruth Brown (1928), Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), Lynn Burke (1943), Abraham Polonsky (1910), and Jennifer Ehle (1969).

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Among actors born in United States, David Wayne ranks 2,457. Before him are Dylan O'Brien (1991), Natalie Talmadge (1896), Richard Riehle (1948), Mildred Dunnock (1901), Rita Gam (1927), and James Eckhouse (1955). After him are Ruth Brown (1928), Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), Jennifer Ehle (1969), Greta Gerwig (1983), Kathryn Grayson (1922), and Robert Harron (1893).

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