Fredd Wayne

Fredd Wayne is an American actor with a career spanning seven decades on Broadway, radio, television, movies and recorded works. He is best known for numerous guest star appearances on television and for his portrayal of Benjamin Franklin160 originally in his oneman show Benjamin Franklin, Citizen, on television, recordings and live appearances.

Fredd Wayne was born Frederick Wiener in Akron, Ohio to working class parents Celia and Charles Theodore Wiener, a salesman. Two days after graduating from John R. Buchtel High School he took a bus to Hollywood in hopes of working for cousin Lester Cowan who had produced My Little Chickadee and several Marx Brothers films. He recalls sitting in the lobby of Columbia Studios for three days before Cowan dismissed him with I got nuthin for you, kid. After Waynes money and graduation watch were stolen, a neighbor who worked at Warner Brothers drove him to the studio where he was hired as a mail boy fora week. This first Hollywood job, and the rush of delivering film to movie sets, trading hellos with Bette Davis and watching John Garfield and Errol Flynn perform, ended when the U.S. Army called him in and asked his predraft occupation. Without hesitation, he answered I was under contract to Warner Brothers Studio.

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