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Guy Madison‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1922-01-19

Popularity

star6.5

Guy Madison

Pumpkin Center, California, USA

Guy Madison

Pumpkin Center, California, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1922-01-19

Popularity

star6.5

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)

Movie Credits

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier‌
star6.0
calendar 1955

Where's Willie?

Where's Willie?‌
star0.0
calendar 1978

Old Shatterhand

Old Shatterhand‌
star6.3
calendar 1964

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away‌
star6.4
calendar 1944

5 Against the House

5 Against the House‌
star5.9
calendar 1955

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Angeles Plays Itself‌
star7.6
calendar 2004

Legacy of the Incas

Legacy of the Incas‌
star5.8
calendar 1965

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

This Man Can't Die

This Man Can't Die‌
star4.8
calendar 1968

Five for Revenge

Five for Revenge‌
star4.5
calendar 1966

Reverend's Colt

Reverend's Colt‌
star5.4
calendar 1970

Son of Django

Son of Django‌
star6.1
calendar 1967

Women of Devil's Island

Women of Devil's Island‌
star4.0
calendar 1962

Till the End of Time

Till the End of Time‌
star6.7
calendar 1946

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

The Beast of Hollow Mountain‌
star4.2
calendar 1956

Bullwhip

Bullwhip‌
star4.4
calendar 1958

The Command

The Command‌
star6.2
calendar 1954

Jet Over The Atlantic

Jet Over The Atlantic‌
star5.4
calendar 1959

Drums in the Deep South

Drums in the Deep South‌
star5.4
calendar 1951

Payment in Blood

Payment in Blood‌
star5.4
calendar 1967

The War Devils

The War Devils‌
star6.0
calendar 1969

The Bang-Bang Kid

The Bang-Bang Kid‌
star5.2
calendar 1967

Hilda Crane

Hilda Crane‌
star7.2
calendar 1956

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande‌
star5.2
calendar 1964

The Hard Man

The Hard Man‌
star4.8
calendar 1957

Gentlemen of the Night

Gentlemen of the Night‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Reprisal!

Reprisal!‌
star7.2
calendar 1956

Return of Sandokan

Return of Sandokan‌
star6.0
calendar 1964

Blood of the Executioner

Blood of the Executioner‌
star4.4
calendar 1963

The Charge at Feather River

The Charge at Feather River‌
star5.6
calendar 1953

On the Threshold of Space

On the Threshold of Space‌
star4.0
calendar 1956

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven‌
star6.0
calendar 1948

Adventurer of Tortuga

Adventurer of Tortuga‌
star4.5
calendar 1965

Honeymoon

Honeymoon‌
star6.4
calendar 1947

The Battle of the Last Panzer

The Battle of the Last Panzer‌
star5.0
calendar 1969

Behind Southern Lines

Behind Southern Lines‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

Sword of the Conqueror

Sword of the Conqueror‌
star5.6
calendar 1961

Slave of Rome

Slave of Rome‌
star4.2
calendar 1961

Sandokan Fights Back

Sandokan Fights Back‌
star5.3
calendar 1964

Massacre River

Massacre River‌
star6.2
calendar 1949

Red Snow

Red Snow‌
star3.0
calendar 1952

Hell Commandos

Hell Commandos‌
star5.0
calendar 1969

Kidnapped to Mystery Island

Kidnapped to Mystery Island‌
star6.0
calendar 1964

Trail of the Arrow

Trail of the Arrow‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

The Yellow Haired Kid

The Yellow Haired Kid‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

Trouble on the Trail

Trouble on the Trail‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

Six Gun Decision

Six Gun Decision‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

Secret of Outlaw Flats

Secret of Outlaw Flats‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

Outlaw's Son

Outlaw's Son‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

The Tilted Tenderfoot

The Tilted Tenderfoot‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Two Gun Marshal

Two Gun Marshal‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

The Matchmaking Marshal

The Matchmaking Marshal‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Marshals in Disguise

Marshals in Disguise‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

A Place In Hell

A Place In Hell‌
star4.8
calendar 1969

The Rebels

The Rebels‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

Superargo and the Faceless Giants‌
star5.1
calendar 1968

Border City Rustlers

Border City Rustlers‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

Hell in Normandy

Hell in Normandy‌
star4.1
calendar 1968

The Pacific Connection

The Pacific Connection‌
star4.3
calendar 1974

LSD Flesh of Devil

LSD Flesh of Devil‌
star5.7
calendar 1967

The Devil's Man

The Devil's Man‌
star5.0
calendar 1967

Red River

Red River‌
star5.6
calendar 1988

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon

The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

The Two Gun Teacher

The Two Gun Teacher‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

Phantom Trails

Phantom Trails‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Timber Country Trouble

Timber Country Trouble‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

The Silk Worm

The Silk Worm‌
star6.5
calendar 1974

Not One Shall Die

Not One Shall Die‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood‌
star4.1
calendar 1976

Crossbow: The Movie

Crossbow: The Movie‌
star7.0
calendar 1989

Tv Credits

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Climax!

Climax!‌
star2.7
calendar 1954

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok‌
star4.5
calendar 1951

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950