Guy Madison
Actor/Actriz
70
Filmes
8
Séries
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)
Como Ator/Atriz
What's My Line?
Self
Climax!
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jericho - Federal Agent
The Ford Television Theatre
John Harpurhey
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
Crossbow
General Electric Theater
Adam Tenney
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Red River
Bill Meeker, Rancher
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
Furia apache
Capt. Bradley
Il figlio di Django
Father Fleming
The Command
Capt. Robert MacClaw
La última frontera
Captain Glenn Riordan
Since You Went Away
Sailor Harold E. Smith
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Eddie Tayloe
Sette winchester per un massacro
Colonel Thomas Blake
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
Reverendo Colt
Miller Colt
Drums in the Deep South
Maj. Will Denning
Till the End of Time
Cliff W. Harper
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Star at Screening
Hilda Crane
Russell Burns
The Charge at Feather River
Miles Archer
Red Snow
Lt. Phil Johnson
Il vendicatore mascherato
Massimo
Sfida a Rio Bravo
Wyatt Earp / Laramie
Bang Bang Kid
Bear Bullock
Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak
Yanez
La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer
Lofty