![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: December 1, 1929 in Omaha, NE Death: February 27, 1997 Biography:Although sandy-voiced character actor "David Doyle" sometimes gave the onscreen impression of being an unprepossessing, slow-on-the-uptake "little man," in truth Doyle stood six feet tall, weighed 200 pounds, and had an I.Q. of 148. Born into a family of lawyers, Doyle was drawn to amateur theatricals at the age of ten. In an effort to please both his parents and his own muse, he attended pre-law classes at the University of Nebraska, all the while taking acting lessons at Virginia's Barter Theatre and New York's Neighborhood Playhouse. His first theatrical break came in 1956, when he replaced "Walter Matthau" in the Broadway hit Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? He subsequently spent several seasons as an actor/director in a Midwestern traveling stock company, then returned to New York, where he appeared in "S.J. Perelman"'s The Beauty Part and seven other Broadway plays. After a decade's worth of film... Full Biography
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