Guy Madison
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)
Known For
Captain Glenn Riordan
The Last Frontier
Tony Flore
Where's Willie?
Capt. Bradley
Old Shatterhand
Sailor Harold E. Smith
Since You Went Away
Al Mercer
5 Against the House
Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Jaguar / Karl Hansen
Das Vermächtnis des Inka
Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Martin Benson
I lunghi giorni dell'odio
Tex
I cinque della vendetta
Miller Colt
Reverendo Colt
Father Fleming
Il figlio di Django
Henri Vallière
Le prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo
Cliff W. Harper
Till the End of Time
Jimmy Ryan
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Steve Daley
Bullwhip
Capt. Robert MacClaw
The Command
Brett Murphy
Jet Over The Atlantic
Maj. Will Denning
Drums in the Deep South
Colonel Thomas Blake
Sette winchester per un massacro
Capt. George Vincent
I diavoli della guerra
Bear Bullock
Bang Bang Kid
Russell Burns
Hilda Crane
Wyatt Earp / Laramie
Sfida a Rio Bravo
Steve Burden
The Hard Man
Massimo
Il vendicatore mascherato
Frank Madden
Reprisal!
Yanez
Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak
Rodrigo Zeno
Il boia di Venezia
Miles Archer
The Charge at Feather River
Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
On the Threshold of Space
Eddie Tayloe
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Alfonso di Montélimar
L'avventuriero della Tortuga
Corporal Phil Vaughn
Honeymoon
Lofty
La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer
Amalchi
Rosmunda e Alboino
Wild Bill Hickok
Behind Southern Lines
Marco Valerio
La schiava di Roma
Yanez
Sandokan alla riscossa
Larry Knight
Massacre River
Lt. Phil Johnson
Red Snow
Major Carter
Comando al infierno
Souyadhana
I misteri della giungla nera
Wild Bill Hickok
The Yellow Haired Kid
Wild Bill Hickok
Trail of the Arrow
Wild Bill Hickok
Trouble on the Trail
Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Six Gun Decision
Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Secret of Outlaw Flats
Wild Bill Hickok
Two Gun Marshal
Wild Bill Hickok
The Tilted Tenderfoot
Wild Bill Hickok
Outlaw's Son
Wild Bill Hickok
Marshals in Disguise
Wild Bill Hickok
The Matchmaking Marshal
Major Mac Graves
Un posto all'inferno
Prof. Wendland Wond
L'invincibile Superman
Wild Bill Hickok
Border City Rustlers
Capt. Jack Murphy
Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili
The Old Man
The Pacific Connection
Rex Miller
LSD - Inferno per pochi dollari
Mike Harway
Devilman Story
Bill Meeker, Rancher
Red River
Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Wild Bill Hickok
The Two Gun Teacher
Wild Bill Hickok
Phantom Trails
Wild Bill Hickok
Timber Country Trouble
Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
Il baco di seta
Stefan Gross
Not One Shall Die
Star at Screening
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Gerrish
Crossbow: The Movie
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
69
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-01-19
Place of Birth
Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Also Known As
Гай Мэдисон