Guy Madison

Guy Madison

Acting 1922-01-19 Pumpkin Center, California, USA

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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2004 Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
1989 Gerrish
1988 Bill Meeker, Rancher
1979 Lt. Mayo
1978 Tony Flore
1976 Star at Screening
1974 The Old Man
1974 Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
1970 Miller Colt
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1969 Capt. George Vincent
1969 Major Carter
1969 Major Mac Graves
1968 Martin Benson
1968 Prof. Wendland Wond
1968 Capt. Jack Murphy
1967 Father Fleming
1967 Colonel Thomas Blake
1967 Bear Bullock
1967 Rex Miller
1967 Mike Harway
1965 Jaguar / Karl Hansen
1965 Alfonso di Montélimar
1964 Capt. Bradley
1964 Wyatt Earp / Laramie
1964 Massimo
1964 Yanez
1964 Souyadhana
1963 Rodrigo Zeno
1962 Henri Vallière
1961 Amalchi
1961 Marco Valerio
1959 Brett Murphy
1958 Steve Daley
1957 Steve Burden
1957 Stefan Gross
1956 Jimmy Ryan
1956 Russell Burns
1956 Frank Madden
1956 Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
1956 Jericho - Federal Agent
1955 Captain Glenn Riordan
1955 Al Mercer
1955 Wild Bill Hickok
1955 Wild Bill Hickok
1955 Wild Bill Hickok
1955 Wild Bill Hickok
1954 Capt. Robert MacClaw
1954 Wild Bill Hickok
1954 Wild Bill Hickok
1954 Wild Bill Hickok
1954 Wild Bill Hickok
1954
1953 Miles Archer
1953 Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
1953 Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
1953 Wild Bill Hickok
1953 Wild Bill Hickok
1953 Adam Tenney
1952 Wild Bill Hickok
1952 Lt. Phil Johnson
1952 Wild Bill Hickok
1952 Wild Bill Hickok
1952 Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
1952 John Harpurhey
1951 Maj. Will Denning
1951 Wild Bill Hickok
1949 Larry Knight
1948 Eddie Tayloe
1947 Corporal Phil Vaughn
1946 Cliff W. Harper
1944 Sailor Harold E. Smith