Cast
Guy Madison
Acting
Cast
Guy Madison
Known for
Acting
Born
1922-01-19
From
Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Died
1996-02-06
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)
★6.2
MOVIE1964
Old Shatterhand
as Capt. Bradley
★9.0
MOVIE1952
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
★5.3
MOVIE1951
Drums in the Deep South
as Maj. Will Denning
★7.0
MOVIE1969
The War Devils
as Capt. George Vincent
MOVIE1955
Timber Country Trouble
as Wild Bill Hickok
★6.3
MOVIE1965
Legacy of the Incas
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen
★5.7
MOVIE1952
Red Snow
as Lt. Phil Johnson
★6.2
MOVIE1955
The Last Frontier
as Captain Glenn Riordan
★6.4
MOVIE1988
Red River
as Bill Meeker, Rancher
★6.4
MOVIE1946
Till the End of Time
as Cliff W. Harper
★4.9
MOVIE1966
Five for Revenge
as Tex
★5.2
MOVIE1957
The Hard Man
as Steve Burden
★4.8
MOVIE1968
This Man Can't Die
as Martin Benson
★5.4
MOVIE1969
A Place In Hell
as Major Mac Graves
★6.4
MOVIE1954
The Command
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
★5.3
MOVIE1968
Superargo and the Faceless Giants
as Prof. Wendland Wond
★5.5
MOVIE1967
Son of Django
as Father Fleming
★6.8
MOVIE1964
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
as Souyadhana
★4.3
MOVIE1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Star at Screening
★6.9
MOVIE1956
Hilda Crane
as Russell Burns
★5.6
MOVIE1964
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie
★5.5
MOVIE1967
Bang Bang Kid
as Bear Bullock
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Border City Rustlers
as Wild Bill Hickok
★6.3
MOVIE1989
Crossbow: The Movie
as Gerrish
★8.0
MOVIE1955
The Matchmaking Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok
★4.3
MOVIE1956
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Jimmy Ryan
★5.0
MOVIE1968
Hell in Normandy
as Capt. Jack Murphy
★4.3
MOVIE1962
Women of Devil's Island
as Henri Vallière
★5.4
MOVIE1969
The Battle of the Last Panzer
as Lofty
★9.0
MOVIE1977
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
★5.4
MOVIE1970
Reverend's Colt
as Miller Colt
★8.0
MOVIE1955
The Tilted Tenderfoot
as Wild Bill Hickok
★5.8
MOVIE1965
Adventurer of Tortuga
as Alfonso di Montélimar
★6.0
MOVIE1959
Jet Over The Atlantic
as Brett Murphy
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Since You Went Away
as Harold E. Smith
★5.9
MOVIE1953
The Charge at Feather River
as Miles Archer
★5.7
MOVIE1967
Payment in Blood
as Colonel Thomas Blake
★6.0
MOVIE1964
Sandokan Fights Back
as Yanez
★6.5
MOVIE1969
Hell Commandos
as Major Carter
★8.0
MOVIE1954
Marshals in Disguise
as Wild Bill Hickok
★4.9
MOVIE1963
Blood of the Executioner
as Rodrigo Zeno
★5.3
MOVIE1974
The Pacific Connection
as The Old Man
★4.9
MOVIE1958
Bullwhip
as Steve Daley
★5.9
MOVIE1955
5 Against the House
as Al Mercer
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Not One Shall Die
as Stefan Gross
★5.5
MOVIE1964
Gentlemen of the Night
as Massimo
★5.3
MOVIE1961
Slave of Rome
as Marco Valerio
★10.0
MOVIE1978
Where's Willie?
as Tony Flore
★6.1
MOVIE1961
Sword of the Conqueror
as Amalchi
★7.7
MOVIE1974
The Silk Worm
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
★6.9
MOVIE1956
Reprisal!
as Frank Madden
★6.6
MOVIE1949
Massacre River
as Larry Knight
★6.0
MOVIE1956
On the Threshold of Space
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
★5.8
MOVIE1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Eddie Tayloe
★8.0
MOVIE1952
Behind Southern Lines
as Wild Bill Hickok
MOVIE1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Phantom Trails
as Wild Bill Hickok
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Honeymoon
as Corporal Phil Vaughn
★6.0
MOVIE1967
LSD Flesh of Devil
as Rex Miller
★7.0
MOVIE1967
The Devil's Man
as Mike Harway
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
★9.0
MOVIE1953
Six Gun Decision
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
★6.8
MOVIE1964
Return of Sandokan
as Yanez
★9.0
MOVIE1952
The Yellow Haired Kid
as Wild Bill Hickok
★7.0
MOVIE1954
The Two Gun Teacher
as Wild Bill Hickok
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Trail of the Arrow
as Wild Bill Hickok
★8.0
MOVIE1954
Trouble on the Trail
as Wild Bill Hickok
★9.0
MOVIE1953
Two Gun Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Outlaw's Son
as Wild Bill Hickok