
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 11, 1995                   TAG: 9502140055
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES
DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD                                 LENGTH: Short

TONY WINNER DAVID WAYNE IS DEAD AT 81

David Wayne, a Broadway, TV and film actor known for portrayals of a variety of characters, died Thursday after a lengthy struggle with lung cancer. He was 81.

Winner of two Tony awards and nominated for an Emmy, the actor fit comfortably into lead and character roles in films and television, be they musicals, comedies or dramas.

His wife of 52 years, onetime actress Jane Gordon, died in 1993.

He won Tony Awards in 1947 as the leprechaun in the Irish fantasy ``Finian's Rainbow'' and in 1954 for his role as Sakini in "The Teahouse of the August Moon,''

In the movies, he played Duke in a 1974 remake of ``Huckleberry Finn,'' Dr. Dutton trying to find a cure for the ``Andromeda Strain'' in 1974, the landlord in ``How to Marry a Millionaire'' and the insensitive husband in``The Three Faces of Eve.''

On TV, Wayne was Inspector Richard Queen in ``The Adventures of Ellery Queen'' in 1975-76 and played Willard ``Digger'' Barnes on ``Dallas'' in 1978.

by CNB