Guy Madison
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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)
Known for
Credits
Old Shatterhand (1964)
as Capt. Bradley
The Last Frontier (1955)
as Captain Glenn Riordan
Reprisal! (1956)
as Frank Madden
Since You Went Away (1944)
as Harold E. Smith
5 Against the House (1955)
as Al Mercer
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Star at Screening
Red Snow (1952)
as Lt. Phil Johnson
Legacy of the Incas (1965)
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen
Hilda Crane (1956)
as Russell Burns
Till the End of Time (1946)
as Cliff W. Harper
Red River (1988)
as Bill Meeker, Rancher
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon (1952)
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Drums in the Deep South (1951)
as Maj. Will Denning
The Hard Man (1957)
as Steve Burden
Five for Revenge (1966)
as Tex
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979)
as Self
The Command (1954)
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
Crossbow: The Movie (1989)
as Gerrish
Son of Django (1967)
as Father Fleming
The Charge at Feather River (1953)
as Miles Archer
Hell in Normandy (1968)
as Capt. Jack Murphy
Women of Devil's Island (1962)
as Henri Vallière
Bullwhip (1958)
as Steve Daley
Sword of the Conqueror (1961)
as Amalchi
The War Devils (1969)
as Capt. George Vincent
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)
Actor
Massacre River (1949)
as Larry Knight
Timber Country Trouble (1955)
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Pacific Connection (1974)
as The Old Man
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande (1964)
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie
The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
as Lofty
Payment in Blood (1967)
as Colonel Thomas Blake
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
as Eddie Tayloe
Blood of the Executioner (1963)
as Rodrigo Zeno
Reverend's Colt (1970)
as Miller Colt
A Place In Hell (1969)
as Major Mac Graves
Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964)
as Souyadhana
Border City Rustlers (1953)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Sandokan Fights Back (1964)
as Yanez
The Devil's Man (1967)
as Mike Harway
Jet Over The Atlantic (1959)
as Brett Murphy
Slave of Rome (1961)
as Marco Valerio
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
as Jimmy Ryan
Adventurer of Tortuga (1965)
as Alfonso di Montélimar
LSD Flesh of Devil (1967)
as Rex Miller
Honeymoon (1947)
as Corporal Phil Vaughn
On the Threshold of Space (1956)
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
Marshals in Disguise (1954)
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Tilted Tenderfoot (1955)
as Wild Bill Hickok
This Man Can't Die (1968)
as Martin Benson
Hell Commandos (1969)
as Major Carter
The Matchmaking Marshal (1955)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Return of Sandokan (1964)
as Yanez
Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968)
as Prof. Wendland Wond
Not One Shall Die (1957)
as Stefan Gross
Two Gun Marshal (1953)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Bang Bang Kid (1967)
as Bear Bullock
Outlaw's Son (1954)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Secret of Outlaw Flats (1953)
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Behind Southern Lines (1952)
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Two Gun Teacher (1954)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Where's Willie? (1978)
as Tony Flore
Trouble on the Trail (1954)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Trail of the Arrow (1952)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Gentlemen of the Night (1964)
as Massimo
The Yellow Haired Kid (1952)
as Wild Bill Hickok
Six Gun Decision (1953)
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Phantom Trails (1955)
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Silk Worm (1974)
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband