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Guy Madison
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-01-19,Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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 film's release brought thousands of fan letters for Madison's lonely, strikingly handsome young sailor, and at war's 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, California Date of Death 6 February 1996, Palm Springs, California (emphysema)

Filmography

The Last Frontier

6

The Last Frontier
1955-12-07

Where's Willie?

0

Where's Willie?
1978-04-12

Old Shatterhand

6.254

Old Shatterhand
1964-04-30

Since You Went Away

6.4

Since You Went Away
1944-06-30

5 Against the House

5.934

5 Against the House
1955-06-10

Los Angeles Plays Itself

7.6

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28

Legacy of the Incas

5.8

Legacy of the Incas
1965-09-08

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

0

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979-06-05

This Man Can't Die

4.8

This Man Can't Die
1968-04-05

Five for Revenge

4.5

Five for Revenge
1966-01-01

Reverend's Colt

5.4

Reverend's Colt
1970-12-24

6.1

Son of Django
1967-05-26

Women of Devil's Island

4

Women of Devil's Island
1962-07-27

Till the End of Time

6.7

Till the End of Time
1946-07-23

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

4.2

The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956-08-01

4.4

Bullwhip
1958-05-25

6.2

The Command
1954-02-13

Jet Over The Atlantic

5.4

Jet Over The Atlantic
1959-11-04

Drums in the Deep South

5.4

Drums in the Deep South
1951-09-01

Payment in Blood

5.4

Payment in Blood
1967-04-14

6

The War Devils
1969-12-19

The Bang-Bang Kid

5.2

The Bang-Bang Kid
1967-11-14

7.2

Hilda Crane
1956-05-08

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

5.2

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964-11-19

4.8

The Hard Man
1957-12-01

Gentlemen of the Night

0

Gentlemen of the Night
1964-05-10

7.2

Reprisal!
1956-11-02

Return of Sandokan

6

Return of Sandokan
1964-10-18

Blood of the Executioner

4.4

Blood of the Executioner
1963-09-19

The Charge at Feather River

5.6

The Charge at Feather River
1953-07-11

On the Threshold of Space

4

On the Threshold of Space
1956-03-29

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

6

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16

Adventurer of Tortuga

4.5

Adventurer of Tortuga
1965-08-12

6.4

Honeymoon
1947-05-17

The Battle of the Last Panzer

5

The Battle of the Last Panzer
1969-01-23

Behind Southern Lines

0

Behind Southern Lines
1952-11-02

Sword of the Conqueror

5.6

Sword of the Conqueror
1961-08-24

4.2

Slave of Rome
1961-02-02

Sandokan Fights Back

5.3

Sandokan Fights Back
1964-08-13

6.2

Massacre River
1949-06-26

3

Red Snow
1952-07-07

5

Hell Commandos
1969-06-07

Kidnapped to Mystery Island

6

Kidnapped to Mystery Island
1964-12-27

The Yellow Haired Kid

0

The Yellow Haired Kid
1952-11-02

Trail of the Arrow

0

Trail of the Arrow
1952-11-02

Trouble on the Trail

0

Trouble on the Trail
1954-12-26

Six Gun Decision

0

Six Gun Decision
1953-11-15

Secret of Outlaw Flats

0

Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953-11-15

0

Outlaw's Son
1954-12-26

The Matchmaking Marshal

0

The Matchmaking Marshal
1955-05-08

Two Gun Marshal

0

Two Gun Marshal
1953-11-15

Marshals in Disguise

0

Marshals in Disguise
1954-12-26

The Tilted Tenderfoot

0

The Tilted Tenderfoot
1955-05-08

A Place In Hell

4.8

A Place In Hell
1969-01-10

0

The Rebels
1979-05-14

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

5.1

Superargo and the Faceless Giants
1968-01-26

Border City Rustlers

0

Border City Rustlers
1953-11-15

Hell in Normandy

4.1

Hell in Normandy
1968-08-13

The Pacific Connection

4.3

The Pacific Connection
1974-11-14

LSD Flesh of Devil

5.7

LSD Flesh of Devil
1967-02-02

The Devil's Man

5

The Devil's Man
1967-06-30

5.6

Red River
1988-04-10

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

0

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952-11-01

The Two Gun Teacher

0

The Two Gun Teacher
1954-12-26

0

Phantom Trails
1955-05-08

Timber Country Trouble

0

Timber Country Trouble
1955-05-08

6.5

The Silk Worm
1974-03-01

Not One Shall Die

0

Not One Shall Die
1957-01-01

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

4.1

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976-07-26

Crossbow: The Movie

7

Crossbow: The Movie
1989-01-01

General Electric Theater

5.5

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

6.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

2.7

Climax!
1954-10-07

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951-04-15

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

The Ford Television Theatre

6

The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02

What's My Line?

6.6

What's My Line?
1950-02-02