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Guy Madison

Actor / Film Producer | * 01/19/1922 († 74, 02/06/1996) | Pumpkin Center, California (United States of America (USA))
Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley; January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film, television, and radio actor. He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958. During his career, Madison was given a special Golden Globe Award in 1954 and two stars (radio, television) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. ()

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 19January 1922,Pumpkin Center, CaliforniaDate of Death 6February 1996,Palm Springs, California (emphysema)

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Most frequent genres for this person: Western | Drama | Adventure

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Awards & Nominations for Guy Madison

Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Movies with Guy Madison as Actor(67)

as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)2004 Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Bill Meeker, Rancher1988 Red River
as Lt. Mayo1979 The Rebels
as Tony Flore1978 Where's Willie?
as The Old Man1974 The Pacific Connection
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband1973 The Silk Worm
as Reverend Miller Colt1970 Reverend's Colt
as Major Carter1969 Hell Commandos
as Capt. George Vincent1969 The War Devils
as Major Mac Graves1969 A Place In Hell
as Prof. Wendland Wond1968 Superargo and the Faceless Giants
as Martin Benson1968 This Man Can't Die
as Capt. Jack Murphy1968 Hell in Normandy
as Father Fleming1967 Return of Django
as Bear Bullock1967 The Bang-Bang Kid
as Mike Harway1967 The Devil's Man
as Rex Miller1967 LSD Flesh of Devil
as Colonel Thomas Blake1967 Payment in Blood
as Tex1966 Five for Revenge
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen1965 Legacy of the Incas
as Alfonso di Montélimar1965 Adventurer of Tortuga
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie1964 Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Souyadhana1964 Kidnapped to Mystery Island
as Capt. Bradley1964 Old Shatterhand
as Massimo1964 Gentlemen of the Night
as Yanez1964 Return of Sandokan
as Rodrigo Zeno1963 Blood of the Executioner
as Henri Vallière1962 Women of Devil's Island
as Amalchi1961 Sword of the Conqueror
as Marco Valerio1961 Slave of Rome
as Brett Murphy1959 Jet Over The Atlantic
as Steve Daley1958 Bullwhip
as Steve Burden1957 The Hard Man
as Stefan Gross1957 Not One Shall Die
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck1956 On the Threshold of Space
as Russell Burns1956 Hilda Crane
as Frank Madden1956 Reprisal!
as Wild Bill Hickok1955 The Matchmaking Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok1955 Phantom Trails
as Wild Bill Hickok1955 The Tilted Tenderfoot
as Glenn Riordan1955 The Last Frontier
as Al Mercer1955 5 Against the House
as Capt. Robert MacClaw1954 The Command
as Wild Bill Hickok1954 Outlaw's Son
as Wild Bill Hickok1954 The Two Gun Teacher
as Wild Bill Hickok1954 Marshals in Disguise
as Wild Bill Hickok1954 Trouble on the Trail
as Wild Bill Hickok1953 Two Gun Marshal
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok1953 Six Gun Decision
as Miles Archer1953 The Charge at Feather River
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok1953 Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Wild Bill Hickok1953 Border City Rustlers
as Wild Bill Hickok1952 Behind Southern Lines
as Wild Bill Hickok1952 The Yellow Haired Kid
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok1952 The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
as Lt. Phil Johnson1952 Red Snow
as Wild Bill Hickok1952 Trail of the Arrow
as Maj. Will Denning1951 Drums in the Deep South
as Larry Knight1949 Massacre River
as Eddie Tayloe1948 Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Corporal Phil Vaughn1947 Honeymoon
as Cliff W. Harper1946 Till the End of Time
as Sailor Harold E. Smith1944 Since You Went Away

TV Shows/Series with Guy Madison as Actor(7)

as Jericho - Federal Agent1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1954 Climax!
as Adam Tenney1953 GE Theater
as John Harpurhey1952 The Ford Television Theatre
as Wild Bill Hickok1951 The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Self - Mystery Guest1950 What's My Line?

Full Name: Guy Madison
Born: Thursday, 01/19 1922 (January) in Pumpkin Center, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 02/06 1996 (February) in Palm Springs (aged: 74)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Bakersfield College
Spouses (current/former): Gail Russell
Other names for Guy Madison (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Гай Мэдисон"
Guy Madison frequently works together with these people:
Andy Devine (16x, Actor)
Eddie Albert (15x, Actor)
Vincent Price (13x, Actor)
John Ericson (13x, Actor)
Frank McDonald (13x, Crew)
Lee Marvin (12x, Actor)
Vera Miles (12x, Actress)
John Forsythe (12x, Actor)
Don Taylor (12x, Crew)
Stephen McNally (12x, Actor)
Michael Rennie (11x, Actor)
Maurice Tombragel (11x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:452798, Added: 09/29/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024