Guy Madison actor
- All known tv series 7
- Total known movies 70
Handsome American leading man Guy Madison stumbled into a film career and became a television star and hero to the Baby Boom generation. As a young man he worked as a telephone lineman, but entered the Coast Guard at the beginning of the Second World War. While on liberty one weekend in Hollywood, he attended a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast and was spotted in the audience by an assistant to Henry Willson, an executive for David O. Selznick. Selznick wanted an unknown sailor to play a small but prominent part in Since You Went Away (1944), and promptly signed Robert Moseley to a contract. Selznick and Willson concocted the screen name Guy Madison (the guy girls would like to meet, and Madison from a passing Dolly Madison cake wagon). Madison filmed his one scene on a weekend pass and returned to duty. The films release brought thousands of fan letters for Madisons lonely, strikingly handsome young sailor, and at wars end he returned to find himself a star-in-the-making. Despite an initial amateurishness to his acting, Madison grew as a performer, studying and working in theatre. He played leads in a series of programmers before being cast as legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok in the TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). He played Hickok on TV and radio for much of the 1950s, and many of the TV episodes were strung together and released as feature films. Madison managed to squeeze in some more adult-oriented roles during his off-time from the series, but much of this work was also in westerns. After the Hickok series ended Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and traveled to Europe, where he became a popular star of Italian westerns and German adventure films. In the 1970s he returned to the U.S., but appeared mainly in cameo roles. Physical ailments limited his work in later years, and he died from emphysema in 1996. His first wife was actress Gail Russell.Date of Birth 19 January 1922, Pumpkin Center, CaliforniaDate of Death 6 February 1996, Palm Springs, California (emphysema)
Captain Glenn Riordan
Movie 1955
Tony Flore
Movie 1978
Capt. Bradley
Movie 1964
Sailor Harold E. Smith
Movie 1944
Al Mercer
Movie 1955
Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
Movie 2004
Jaguar / Karl Hansen
Movie 1965
Self
Movie 1979
Martin Benson
Movie 1968
Tex
Movie 1966
Reverend Miller Colt
Movie 1970
Father Fleming
Movie 1967
Henri Vallière
Movie 1962
Cliff W. Harper
Movie 1946
Jimmy Ryan
Movie 1956
Steve Daley
Movie 1958
Capt. Robert MacClaw
Movie 1954
Brett Murphy
Movie 1959
Colonel Thomas Blake
Movie 1967
Bear Bullock
Movie 1967
Russell Burns
Movie 1956
Wyatt Earp / Laramie
Movie 1964
Steve Burden
Movie 1957
Massimo
Movie 1964
Frank Madden
Movie 1956
Yanez
Movie 1964
Rodrigo Zeno
Movie 1963
Miles Archer
Movie 1953
Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
Movie 1956
Eddie Tayloe
Movie 1948
Alfonso di Montélimar
Movie 1965
Corporal Phil Vaughn
Movie 1947
Lofty
Movie 1969
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1952
Amalchi
Movie 1961
Marco Valerio
Movie 1961
Yanez
Movie 1964
Larry Knight
Movie 1949
Lt. Phil Johnson
Movie 1952
Major Carter
Movie 1969
Souyadhana
Movie 1964
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1952
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1952
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1954
Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Movie 1953
Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Movie 1953
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1954
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1955
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1953
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1954
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1955
Major Mac Graves
Movie 1969
Lt. Mayo
Movie 1979
Prof. Wendland Wond
Movie 1968
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1953
Capt. Jack Murphy
Movie 1968
The Old Man
Movie 1974
Rex Miller
Movie 1967
Mike Harway
Movie 1967
Bill Meeker, Rancher
Movie 1988
Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Movie 1952
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1954
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1955
Wild Bill Hickok
Movie 1955
Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
Movie 1974
Star at Screening
Movie 1976
Adam Tenney
Tv 1953
Tv 1951
Tv 1954
Wild Bill Hickok
Tv 1951
Jericho - Federal Agent
Tv 1956
John Harpurhey
Tv 1952
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
