Guy Madison
68 movies · 7 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 19, 1922
- Died
- Feb 6, 1996 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- Pumpkin Center, California, USA
- Also known as
- Гай Мэдисон · Robert Ozell Moseley
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
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Date of Death 6 February 1996, Palm Springs, California (emphysema)
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.2 Old Shatterhand
1964 · Film
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★ 4.2 The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956 · Film
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★ 6.6 Since You Went Away
1944 · Film
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★ 5.9 5 Against the House
1955 · Film
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★ 6.1 The Last Frontier
1955 · Film
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★ 6.4 Till the End of Time
1946 · Film
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★ 4.4 Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Film
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★ 6.4 The Command
1954 · Film
Guy Madison: movies and TV shows
Acting (75)
- 1989 Crossbow: The Movie
as Gerrish
- 1988 Red River
as Bill Meeker, Rancher
- 1987
- 1978 Where's Willie?
as Tony Flore
- 1977
- 1976 Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Star at Screening
- 1974 The Pacific Connection
as The Old Man
- 1974 The Silk Worm
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
- 1970 Reverend's Colt
as Miller Colt
- 1969 The War Devils
as Capt. George Vincent
- 1969 Hell Commandos
as Major Carter
- 1969 The Battle of the Last Panzer
as Lofty
- 1969 A Place In Hell
as Major Mac Graves
- 1968 Hell in Normandy
as Capt. Jack Murphy
- 1968 This Man Can't Die
as Martin Benson
- 1968 Superargo and the Faceless Giants
as Prof. Wendland Wond
- 1967 Bang Bang Kid
as Bear Bullock
- 1967 The Devil's Man
as Mike Harway
- 1967 Son of Django
as Father Fleming
- 1967 Payment in Blood
as Colonel Thomas Blake
- 1967 LSD Flesh of Devil
as Rex Miller
- 1966 Five for Revenge
as Tex
- 1965 Legacy of the Incas
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen
- 1965 Adventurer of Tortuga
as Alfonso di Montélimar
- 1964 Kidnapped to Mystery Island
as Souyadhana
- 1964 Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie
- 1964 Return of Sandokan
as Yanez
- 1964 Sandokan Fights Back
as Yanez
- 1964 Gentlemen of the Night
as Massimo
- 1964 Old Shatterhand
as Capt. Bradley
- 1963 Blood of the Executioner
as Rodrigo Zeno
- 1962 Women of Devil's Island
as Henri Vallière
- 1961 Sword of the Conqueror
as Amalchi
- 1961 Slave of Rome
as Marco Valerio
- 1959 Jet Over The Atlantic
as Brett Murphy
- 1958 Bullwhip
as Steve Daley
- 1957 The Hard Man
as Steve Burden
- 1957 Not One Shall Die
as Stefan Gross
- 1956 Reprisal!
as Frank Madden
- 1956
- 1956 The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Jimmy Ryan
- 1956 Hilda Crane
as Russell Burns
- 1956 On the Threshold of Space
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
- 1955 The Last Frontier
as Captain Glenn Riordan
- 1955 5 Against the House
as Al Mercer
- 1955 The Matchmaking Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1955 The Tilted Tenderfoot
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1955 Phantom Trails
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1955 Timber Country Trouble
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1954 Trouble on the Trail
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1954 Outlaw's Son
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1954 Marshals in Disguise
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1954 The Two Gun Teacher
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1954
- 1954 The Command
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
- 1953 Six Gun Decision
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
- 1953 Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
- 1953 Two Gun Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1953 Border City Rustlers
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1953 The Charge at Feather River
as Miles Archer
- 1953
- 1952 Behind Southern Lines
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1952 The Yellow Haired Kid
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1952 Trail of the Arrow
as Wild Bill Hickok
- 1952 The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
- 1952
- 1952 Red Snow
as Lt. Phil Johnson
- 1951
- 1951 Drums in the Deep South
as Maj. Will Denning
- 1951
- 1949 Massacre River
as Larry Knight
- 1948 Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Eddie Tayloe
- 1947 Honeymoon
as Corporal Phil Vaughn
- 1946 Till the End of Time
as Cliff W. Harper
- 1944 Since You Went Away
as Harold E. Smith
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1979
- 1950 What's My Line?
1 episode