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)
Filmography
all 78
Movies 71
TV Shows 7
self 2
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
Crossbow: The Movie (1989)
Red River (1988)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979)
The Rebels (1979)
The Hughes Mystery (1979)
Where's Willie? (1978)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
The Pacific Connection (1974)
The Silk Worm (1974)
Reverend's Colt (1970)
The War Devils (1969)
Hell Commandos (1969)
The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
A Place In Hell (1969)
Hell in Normandy (1968)
This Man Can't Die (1968)
Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968)
The Bang-Bang Kid (1967)
The Devil's Man (1967)
Return of Django (1967)
Payment in Blood (1967)
LSD Flesh of Devil (1967)
Five for Revenge (1966)
Legacy of the Incas (1965)
Adventurer of Tortuga (1965)
Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964)
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande (1964)
Return of Sandokan (1964)
Sandokan Fights Back (1964)
Gentlemen of the Night (1964)
Old Shatterhand (1964)
Blood of the Executioner (1963)
Women of Devil's Island (1962)
Sword of the Conqueror (1961)
Slave of Rome (1961)
Jet Over The Atlantic (1959)
Bullwhip (1958)
The Hard Man (1957)
Not One Shall Die (1957)
Reprisal! (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
Hilda Crane (1956)
On the Threshold of Space (1956)
The Last Frontier (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
Phantom Trails (1955)
The Tilted Tenderfoot (1955)
The Matchmaking Marshal (1955)
Timber Country Trouble (1955)
Trouble on the Trail (1954)
Outlaw's Son (1954)
The Two Gun Teacher (1954)
Marshals in Disguise (1954)
Climax! (1954)
The Command (1954)
Border City Rustlers (1953)
Secret of Outlaw Flats (1953)
Six Gun Decision (1953)
Two Gun Marshal (1953)
The Charge at Feather River (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Trail of the Arrow (1952)
Behind Southern Lines (1952)
The Yellow Haired Kid (1952)
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon (1952)
The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
Red Snow (1952)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Drums in the Deep South (1951)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)
What's My Line? (1950)
Massacre River (1949)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
Honeymoon (1947)
Till the End of Time (1946)
Since You Went Away (1944)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1922-01-19
Deathday1996-02-06 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceBakersfield, United States of America
RelationshipsGail Russell (1949-01-01 - 1954-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsГай Мэдисон , Robert Ozell Moseley
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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