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Guy Madison

Guy Madison

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)

Personal information

Birthday

1922-01-19

Birth Place

Pumpkin Center, California, USA

Movies and TV shows :

5 Against the House

5 Against the House

1955

5.9

Movie
A Place In Hell

A Place In Hell

1969

4.8

Movie
Adventurer of Tortuga

Adventurer of Tortuga

1965

4.5

Movie
Behind Southern Lines

Behind Southern Lines

1952

0.0

Movie
Blood of the Executioner

Blood of the Executioner

1963

4.4

Movie
Border City Rustlers

Border City Rustlers

1953

0.0

Movie
Bullwhip

Bullwhip

1958

4.4

Movie
poster

Climax!

1954

3.0

TV
Crossbow: The Movie

Crossbow: The Movie

1989

7.0

Movie
poster

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

5.5

TV
Drums in the Deep South

Drums in the Deep South

1951

5.4

Movie
Five for Revenge

Five for Revenge

1966

4.5

Movie
poster

General Electric Theater

1953

6.0

TV
Gentlemen of the Night

Gentlemen of the Night

1964

0.0

Movie
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

1964

5.2

Movie
Hell Commandos

Hell Commandos

1969

5.0

Movie
Hell in Normandy

Hell in Normandy

1968

4.1

Movie
Hilda Crane

Hilda Crane

1956

7.2

Movie
Honeymoon

Honeymoon

1947

6.4

Movie
Jet Over The Atlantic

Jet Over The Atlantic

1959

5.4

Movie
Kidnapped to Mystery Island

Kidnapped to Mystery Island

1964

6.0

Movie
Legacy of the Incas

Legacy of the Incas

1965

5.8

Movie
Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

7.7

Movie
LSD Flesh of Devil

LSD Flesh of Devil

1967

5.7

Movie
Marshals in Disguise

Marshals in Disguise

1954

0.0

Movie
Massacre River

Massacre River

1949

6.2

Movie
Not One Shall Die

Not One Shall Die

1957

0.0

Movie
Old Shatterhand

Old Shatterhand

1964

6.3

Movie
On the Threshold of Space

On the Threshold of Space

1956

4.0

Movie
Outlaw's Son

Outlaw's Son

1954

0.0

Movie
Payment in Blood

Payment in Blood

1967

5.4

Movie
Phantom Trails

Phantom Trails

1955

0.0

Movie
Red River

Red River

1988

5.6

Movie
Red Snow

Red Snow

1952

3.0

Movie
Reprisal!

Reprisal!

1956

7.2

Movie
Return of Sandokan

Return of Sandokan

1964

6.0

Movie
Reverend's Colt

Reverend's Colt

1970

5.4

Movie
Sandokan Fights Back

Sandokan Fights Back

1964

5.3

Movie
poster

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.0

TV
Secret of Outlaw Flats

Secret of Outlaw Flats

1953

0.0

Movie
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

1944

6.5

Movie
Six Gun Decision

Six Gun Decision

1953

0.0

Movie
Slave of Rome

Slave of Rome

1961

4.2

Movie
Son of Django

Son of Django

1967

6.1

Movie
Superargo and the Faceless Giants

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

1968

5.1

Movie
Sword of the Conqueror

Sword of the Conqueror

1961

5.6

Movie
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

1948

6.0

Movie
poster

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951

4.5

TV
The Bang-Bang Kid

The Bang-Bang Kid

1967

5.2

Movie
The Battle of the Last Panzer

The Battle of the Last Panzer

1969

5.0

Movie
The Beast of Hollow Mountain

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

1956

4.2

Movie
The Charge at Feather River

The Charge at Feather River

1953

5.6

Movie
The Command

The Command

1954

6.2

Movie
The Devil's Man

The Devil's Man

1967

5.0

Movie
poster

The Ford Television Theatre

1952

7.0

TV
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

1952

0.0

Movie
The Hard Man

The Hard Man

1957

4.8

Movie
The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

1955

6.0

Movie
The Matchmaking Marshal

The Matchmaking Marshal

1955

0.0

Movie
The Pacific Connection

The Pacific Connection

1974

4.3

Movie
The Rebels

The Rebels

1979

0.0

Movie
The Silk Worm

The Silk Worm

1974

6.5

Movie
The Tilted Tenderfoot

The Tilted Tenderfoot

1955

0.0

Movie
The Two Gun Teacher

The Two Gun Teacher

1954

0.0

Movie
The War Devils

The War Devils

1969

6.0

Movie
The Yellow Haired Kid

The Yellow Haired Kid

1952

0.0

Movie
This Man Can't Die

This Man Can't Die

1968

4.8

Movie
Till the End of Time

Till the End of Time

1946

6.7

Movie
Timber Country Trouble

Timber Country Trouble

1955

0.0

Movie
Trail of the Arrow

Trail of the Arrow

1952

0.0

Movie
Trouble on the Trail

Trouble on the Trail

1954

0.0

Movie
Two Gun Marshal

Two Gun Marshal

1953

0.0

Movie
poster

What's My Line?

1950

6.7

TV
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

0.0

Movie
Where's Willie?

Where's Willie?

1978

0.0

Movie
Women of Devil's Island

Women of Devil's Island

1962

4.0

Movie
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

4.1

Movie