Guy Madison
Age: 74 | From: Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1922-01-19 23:02:22
Death: 1996-02-06 23:02:22
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Pumpkin Center, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 64
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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)
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Jericho - Federal Agent
Old Shatterhand
(1964) Capt. Bradley
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
(1951) Wild Bill Hickok
The Last Frontier
(1955) Glenn Riordan
5 Against the House
(1955) Al Mercer
The Ford Television Theatre
(1952) John Harpurhey
The Rebels
(1979) Lt. MayoActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Bill Meeker, Rancher | |
| 1979 | Self | |
| Lt. Mayo | ||
| 1978 | Tony Flore | |
| 1976 | Star at Screening | |
| 1974 | The Old Man | |
| 1973 | Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband | |
| 1970 | Reverend Miller Colt | |
| 1969 | Capt. George Vincent | |
| Major Carter | ||
| Lofty | ||
| Major Mac Graves | ||
| 1968 | Capt. Jack Murphy | |
| Martin Benson | ||
| Prof. Wendland Wond | ||
| 1967 | Bear Bullock | |
| Mike Harway | ||
| Father Fleming | ||
| Colonel Thomas Blake | ||
| Rex Miller | ||
| 1966 | Tex | |
| 1965 | Jaguar / Karl Hansen | |
| Alfonso di Montélimar | ||
| 1964 | Souyadhana | |
| Wyatt Earp / Laramie | ||
| Yanez | ||
| Yanez | ||
| Massimo | ||
| Capt. Bradley | ||
| 1963 | Rodrigo Zeno | |
| 1962 | Henri Vallière | |
| 1961 | Amalchi | |
| Marco Valerio | ||
| 1959 | Brett Murphy | |
| 1958 | Steve Daley | |
| 1957 | Steve Burden | |
| Stefan Gross | ||
| 1956 | Frank Madden | |
| Jericho - Federal Agent | ||
| Jimmy Ryan | ||
| Russell Burns | ||
| Capt. Jim Hollenbeck | ||
| 1955 | Glenn Riordan | |
| Al Mercer | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| 1954 | Wild Bill Hickok | |
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| N/A | ||
| Capt. Robert MacClaw | ||
| 1953 | Wild Bill Hickok | |
| Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok | ||
| Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Miles Archer | ||
| Adam Tenney | ||
| 1952 | Wild Bill Hickok | |
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok | ||
| Lt. Phil Johnson | ||
| John Harpurhey | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| Maj. Will Denning | ||
| Wild Bill Hickok | ||
| 1950 | Self - Mystery Guest | |
| 1949 | Larry Knight | |
| 1948 | Eddie Tayloe | |
| 1947 | Corporal Phil Vaughn | |
| 1946 | Cliff W. Harper | |
| 1944 | Sailor Harold E. Smith | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
