Guy Madison
Known for Acting · 78 credits
- Born
- 1922-01-19
- Died
- 1996-02-06
- 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
Date of Death 6 February 1996, Palm Springs, California (emphysema)
Known For
TV Shows (8)
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
Climax!
1954
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jericho - Federal Agent
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as John Harpurhey
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
as Wild Bill Hickok
Crossbow
1987
General Electric Theater
1953
as Adam Tenney
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Movies (70)
Red Snow
1952
as Lt. Phil Johnson
Old Shatterhand
1964
as Capt. Bradley
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
as Self
Red River
1988
as Bill Meeker, Rancher
Hilda Crane
1956
as Russell Burns
Reverend's Colt
1970
as Miller Colt
The Last Frontier
1955
as Captain Glenn Riordan
The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Miles Archer
Since You Went Away
1944
as Sailor Harold E. Smith
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Star at Screening
Payment in Blood
1967
as Colonel Thomas Blake
The Command
1954
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
Drums in the Deep South
1951
as Maj. Will Denning
Son of Django
1967
as Father Fleming
Reprisal!
1956
as Frank Madden
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Eddie Tayloe
Till the End of Time
1946
as Cliff W. Harper
The Hard Man
1957
as Steve Burden
The War Devils
1969
as Capt. George Vincent
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
Bullwhip
1958
as Steve Daley
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie
5 Against the House
1955
as Al Mercer
This Man Can't Die
1968
as Martin Benson
The Battle of the Last Panzer
1969
as Lofty
Hell in Normandy
1968
as Capt. Jack Murphy
Sandokan Fights Back
1964
as Yanez
The Devil's Man
1967
as Mike Harway
Legacy of the Incas
1965
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen
The Silk Worm
1974
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
Crossbow: The Movie
1989
as Gerrish
Bang Bang Kid
1967
as Bear Bullock
The Pacific Connection
1974
as The Old Man
Slave of Rome
1961
as Marco Valerio
Return of Sandokan
1964
as Yanez
Marshals in Disguise
1954
as Wild Bill Hickok
Blood of the Executioner
1963
as Rodrigo Zeno
Massacre River
1949
as Larry Knight
Where's Willie?
1978
as Tony Flore
On the Threshold of Space
1956
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
Women of Devil's Island
1962
as Henri Vallière
The Matchmaking Marshal
1955
as Wild Bill Hickok
Adventurer of Tortuga
1965
as Alfonso di Montélimar
Not One Shall Die
1957
as Stefan Gross
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956
as Jimmy Ryan
Honeymoon
1947
as Corporal Phil Vaughn
LSD Flesh of Devil
1967
as Rex Miller
Behind Southern Lines
1952
as Wild Bill Hickok
Gentlemen of the Night
1964
as Massimo
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
1964
as Souyadhana
Sword of the Conqueror
1961
as Amalchi
Two Gun Marshal
1953
as Wild Bill Hickok
Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Five for Revenge
1966
as Tex
The Two Gun Teacher
1954
as Wild Bill Hickok
Timber Country Trouble
1955
as Wild Bill Hickok
A Place In Hell
1969
as Major Mac Graves
Border City Rustlers
1953
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Tilted Tenderfoot
1955
as Wild Bill Hickok
Superargo and the Faceless Giants
1968
as Prof. Wendland Wond
Jet Over The Atlantic
1959
as Brett Murphy
Phantom Trails
1955
as Wild Bill Hickok
Trouble on the Trail
1954
as Wild Bill Hickok
Six Gun Decision
1953
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Hell Commandos
1969
as Major Carter
The Yellow Haired Kid
1952
as Wild Bill Hickok
Trail of the Arrow
1952
as Wild Bill Hickok
Outlaw's Son
1954
as Wild Bill Hickok
About 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 pr… With 78 credits spanning from 1944 to 2004, Guy Madison has appeared in 70 films and 8 TV shows.
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- Red Snow (1952) — as Lt. Phil Johnson
- Old Shatterhand (1964) — as Capt. Bradley
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004) — as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979) — as Self
- Red River (1988) — as Bill Meeker, Rancher
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