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)
Fotos
Películas (70)
Crossbow: The Movie
1989 · Gerrish
Red River
1988 · Bill Meeker, Rancher
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
The Hughes Mystery
1979
Where's Willie?
1978 · Tony Flore
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Star at Screening
The Pacific Connection
1974 · The Old Man
The Silk Worm
1974 · Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
Reverend's Colt
1970 · Miller Colt
The War Devils
1969 · Capt. George Vincent
Hell Commandos
1969 · Major Carter
The Battle of the Last Panzer
1969 · Lofty
A Place In Hell
1969 · Major Mac Graves
Hell in Normandy
1968 · Capt. Jack Murphy
This Man Can't Die
1968 · Martin Benson
Superargo and the Faceless Giants
1968 · Prof. Wendland Wond
Bang Bang Kid
1967 · Bear Bullock
The Devil's Man
1967 · Mike Harway
Son of Django
1967 · Father Fleming
Payment in Blood
1967 · Colonel Thomas Blake
LSD Flesh of Devil
1967 · Rex Miller
Five for Revenge
1966 · Tex
Legacy of the Incas
1965 · Jaguar / Karl Hansen
Adventurer of Tortuga
1965 · Alfonso di Montélimar
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
1964 · Souyadhana
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964 · Wyatt Earp / Laramie
Return of Sandokan
1964 · Yanez
Sandokan Fights Back
1964 · Yanez
Gentlemen of the Night
1964 · Massimo
Old Shatterhand
1964 · Capt. Bradley
Blood of the Executioner
1963 · Rodrigo Zeno
Women of Devil's Island
1962 · Henri Vallière
Sword of the Conqueror
1961 · Amalchi
Slave of Rome
1961 · Marco Valerio
Jet Over The Atlantic
1959 · Brett Murphy
Bullwhip
1958 · Steve Daley
The Hard Man
1957 · Steve Burden
Not One Shall Die
1957 · Stefan Gross
Reprisal!
1956 · Frank Madden
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956 · Jimmy Ryan
Hilda Crane
1956 · Russell Burns
On the Threshold of Space
1956 · Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
The Last Frontier
1955 · Captain Glenn Riordan
5 Against the House
1955 · Al Mercer
The Tilted Tenderfoot
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Matchmaking Marshal
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
Phantom Trails
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
Timber Country Trouble
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
Trouble on the Trail
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
Outlaw's Son
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
Marshals in Disguise
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Two Gun Teacher
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Command
1954 · Capt. Robert MacClaw
Six Gun Decision
1953 · Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953 · Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Two Gun Marshal
1953 · Wild Bill Hickok
Border City Rustlers
1953 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Charge at Feather River
1953 · Miles Archer
Behind Southern Lines
1952 · Wild Bill Hickok
Trail of the Arrow
1952 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Yellow Haired Kid
1952 · Wild Bill Hickok
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952 · Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Red Snow
1952 · Lt. Phil Johnson
Drums in the Deep South
1951 · Maj. Will Denning
Massacre River
1949 · Larry Knight
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · Eddie Tayloe
Honeymoon
1947 · Corporal Phil Vaughn
Till the End of Time
1946 · Cliff W. Harper
Since You Went Away
1944 · Harold E. Smith
