- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 19, 1922
- Place of Birth
- Pumpkin Center, California, USA
- Died
- February 6, 1996
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, str…
Filmography
movieCrossbow: The Movie
1989 · Gerrish
movieRed River
1988 · Bill Meeker, Rancher
tvCrossbow
1987
movieWhen the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
movieWhere's Willie?
1978 · Tony Flore
movieKolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
movieWon Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Star at Screening
movieThe Pacific Connection
1974 · The Old Man
movieThe Silk Worm
1974 · Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
movieReverend's Colt
1970 · Miller Colt
movieThe War Devils
1969 · Capt. George Vincent
movieHell Commandos
1969 · Major Carter
movieThe Battle of the Last Panzer
1969 · Lofty
movieA Place In Hell
1969 · Major Mac Graves
movieHell in Normandy
1968 · Capt. Jack Murphy
movieThis Man Can't Die
1968 · Martin Benson
movieSuperargo and the Faceless Giants
1968 · Prof. Wendland Wond
movieBang Bang Kid
1967 · Bear Bullock
movieThe Devil's Man
1967 · Mike Harway
movieSon of Django
1967 · Father Fleming
moviePayment in Blood
1967 · Colonel Thomas Blake
movieLSD Flesh of Devil
1967 · Rex Miller
movieFive for Revenge
1966 · Tex
movieLegacy of the Incas
1965 · Jaguar / Karl Hansen
movieAdventurer of Tortuga
1965 · Alfonso di Montélimar
movieKidnapped to Mystery Island
1964 · Souyadhana
movieGunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964 · Wyatt Earp / Laramie
movieReturn of Sandokan
1964 · Yanez
movieSandokan Fights Back
1964 · Yanez
movieGentlemen of the Night
1964 · Massimo
movieOld Shatterhand
1964 · Capt. Bradley
movieBlood of the Executioner
1963 · Rodrigo Zeno
movieWomen of Devil's Island
1962 · Henri Vallière
movieSword of the Conqueror
1961 · Amalchi
movieSlave of Rome
1961 · Marco Valerio
movieJet Over The Atlantic
1959 · Brett Murphy
movieBullwhip
1958 · Steve Daley
movieThe Hard Man
1957 · Steve Burden
movieNot One Shall Die
1957 · Stefan Gross
movieReprisal!
1956 · Frank Madden
tvDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Jericho - Federal Agent
movieThe Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956 · Jimmy Ryan
movieHilda Crane
1956 · Russell Burns
movieOn the Threshold of Space
1956 · Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
movieThe Last Frontier
1955 · Captain Glenn Riordan
movie5 Against the House
1955 · Al Mercer
movieThe Matchmaking Marshal
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieThe Tilted Tenderfoot
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
moviePhantom Trails
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieTimber Country Trouble
1955 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieTrouble on the Trail
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieOutlaw's Son
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieMarshals in Disguise
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieThe Two Gun Teacher
1954 · Wild Bill Hickok
tvClimax!
1954
movieThe Command
1954 · Capt. Robert MacClaw
movieSix Gun Decision
1953 · Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
movieSecret of Outlaw Flats
1953 · Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
movieTwo Gun Marshal
1953 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieBorder City Rustlers
1953 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieThe Charge at Feather River
1953 · Miles Archer
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Adam Tenney
movieBehind Southern Lines
1952 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieThe Yellow Haired Kid
1952 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieTrail of the Arrow
1952 · Wild Bill Hickok
movieThe Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1952 · Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
tvThe Ford Television Theatre
1952 · John Harpurhey
movieRed Snow
1952 · Lt. Phil Johnson
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
movieDrums in the Deep South
1951 · Maj. Will Denning
tvThe Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Wild Bill Hickok
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self
movieMassacre River
1949 · Larry Knight
movieTexas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · Eddie Tayloe
movieHoneymoon
1947 · Corporal Phil Vaughn
movieTill the End of Time
1946 · Cliff W. Harper
movieSince You Went Away
1944 · Harold E. Smith