The best David Wayne’s movies

David Wayne

David Wayne

30/01/1914- 09/02/1995
We present our ranking of the best David Wayne’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about David Wayne.
Genre:
Available on:
Year:

The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain
7.2/10
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents..

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/10/1953
  • Character: Freddie Denmark
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib
7.4/10
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.

The Front Page

The Front Page
7.3/10
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 23/12/1957
  • Character: Ralph White
A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

The Apple Dumpling Gang

The Apple Dumpling Gang
6.4/10
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.

Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie
7.6/10
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

M

M
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/03/1951
  • Character: Martin W. Harrow
Remake of the 1931 original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 06/02/1954
  • Character: Tugboat Walker
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1952
  • Character: Jeff Norris
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

The Tender Trap

The Tender Trap
6.3/10
An actress flirt demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/05/1984
  • Character: Stapleton
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.

As Young as You Feel

As Young as You Feel
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1951
  • Character: Joe Elliott
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn
5.6/10
Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.

O. Henry's Full House

O. Henry's Full House
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1952
  • Character: Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

An American Christmas Carol

An American Christmas Carol
6.8/10
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.

Stella

Stella
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/07/1950
  • Character: Carl Granger
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

The Sad Sack

The Sad Sack
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/11/1957
  • Character: Corporal Larry Dolan
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Mooch Goes to Hollywood
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 31/12/1971
  • Character: David Wayne (uncredited)
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Related actors