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person_profile-Guy Madison

Guy Madison Died at age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Guy Madison

Date of Birth:

Jan 19, 1922

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 06, 1996

Biography of

Guy Madison

    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)

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Guy Madison

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Filmography of

Guy Madison

Found 67 Movies in total

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

Crossbow: The Movie

Gerrish ( Actor )

... 1989

Red River

Bill Meeker, Rancher ( Actor )

... 1988

The Rebels

Lt. Mayo ( Actor )

... 1979

Where's Willie?

Tony Flore ( Actor )

... 1978

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Star at Screening ( Actor )

... 1976

The Pacific Connection

The Old Man ( Actor )

... 1974

The Silk Worm

Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband ( Actor )

... 1974

Reverend's Colt

Reverend Miller Colt ( Actor )

... 1970

The War Devils

Capt. George Vincent ( Actor )

... 1969

Hell Commandos

Major Carter ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1969

A Place In Hell

Major Mac Graves ( Actor )

... 1969

Hell in Normandy

Capt. Jack Murphy ( Actor )

... 1968

This Man Can't Die

Martin Benson ( Actor )

... 1968

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

Prof. Wendland Wond ( Actor )

... 1968

The Bang-Bang Kid

Bear Bullock ( Actor )

... 1967

The Devil's Man

Mike Harway ( Actor )

... 1967

Son of Django

Father Fleming ( Actor )

... 1967

Payment in Blood

Colonel Thomas Blake ( Actor )

... 1967

LSD Flesh of Devil

Rex Miller ( Actor )

... 1967

Five for Revenge

Tex ( Actor )

... 1966

Legacy of the Incas

Jaguar / Karl Hansen ( Actor )

... 1965

Adventurer of Tortuga

Alfonso di Montélimar ( Actor )

... 1965

Kidnapped to Mystery Island

Souyadhana ( Actor )

... 1964

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

Wyatt Earp / Laramie ( Actor )

... 1964

Return of Sandokan

Yanez ( Actor )

... 1964

Sandokan Fights Back

Yanez ( Actor )

... 1964

Old Shatterhand

Capt. Bradley ( Actor )

... 1964

Blood of the Executioner

Rodrigo Zeno ( Actor )

... 1963

Women of Devil's Island

Henri Vallière ( Actor )

... 1962

Sword of the Conqueror

Amalchi ( Actor )

... 1961

Slave of Rome

Marco Valerio ( Actor )

... 1961

Jet Over The Atlantic

Brett Murphy ( Actor )

... 1959

Bullwhip

Steve Daley ( Actor )

... 1958

The Hard Man

Steve Burden ( Actor )

... 1957

Reprisal!

Frank Madden ( Actor )

... 1956

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

Jimmy Ryan ( Actor )

... 1956

Hilda Crane

Russell Burns ( Actor )

... 1956

On the Threshold of Space

Capt. Jim Hollenbeck ( Actor )

... 1956

The Last Frontier

Glenn Riordan ( Actor )

... 1955

5 Against the House

Al Mercer ( Actor )

... 1955

Timber Country Trouble

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1955

Phantom Trails

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1955

The Matchmaking Marshal

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1955

The Tilted Tenderfoot

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1955

Outlaw's Son

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1954

Marshals in Disguise

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1954

Trouble on the Trail

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1954

The Two Gun Teacher

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1954

The Command

Capt. Robert MacClaw ( Actor )

... 1954

Secret of Outlaw Flats

Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok ( Actor )

... 1953

Six Gun Decision

Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok ( Actor )

... 1953

Two Gun Marshal

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1953

Border City Rustlers

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1953

The Charge at Feather River

Miles Archer ( Actor )

... 1953

Behind Southern Lines

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1952

The Yellow Haired Kid

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1952

Trail of the Arrow

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1952

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok ( Actor )

... 1952

Red Snow

Lt. Phil Johnson ( Actor )

... 1952

Drums in the Deep South

Maj. Will Denning ( Actor )

... 1951

Massacre River

Larry Knight ( Actor )

... 1949

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Eddie Tayloe ( Actor )

... 1948

Honeymoon

Corporal Phil Vaughn ( Actor )

... 1947

Till the End of Time

Cliff W. Harper ( Actor )

... 1946

Since You Went Away

Sailor Harold E. Smith ( Actor )

... 1944