Guy Madison
Biografia
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)
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Crossbow: The Movie
Film • 1989
jako Gerrish
Red River
Film • 1988
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Crossbow
Serial • 1987
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Film • 1979
jako Self
Where's Willie?
Film • 1978
jako Tony Flore
Kolossal - I magnifici Macisti
Film • 1977
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Film • 1976
jako Star at Screening
The Pacific Connection
Film • 1974
jako The Old Man
Il baco di seta
Film • 1974
jako Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
Reverendo Colt
Film • 1970
jako Miller Colt
I diavoli della guerra
Film • 1969
jako Capt. George Vincent
Comando al infierno
Film • 1969
jako Major Carter
La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer
Film • 1969
jako Lofty
Un posto all'inferno
Film • 1969
jako Major Mac Graves
Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili
Film • 1968
jako Capt. Jack Murphy
I lunghi giorni dell'odio
Film • 1968
jako Martin Benson
L'invincibile Superman
Film • 1968
jako Prof. Wendland Wond
Bang Bang Kid
Film • 1967
jako Bear Bullock
Devilman Story
Film • 1967
jako Mike Harway
Il figlio di Django
Film • 1967
jako Father Fleming
Sette winchester per un massacro
Film • 1967
jako Colonel Thomas Blake
LSD - Inferno per pochi dollari
Film • 1967
jako Rex Miller
I cinque della vendetta
Film • 1966
jako Tex
Testament Inków
Film • 1965
jako Jaguar / Karl Hansen
Awanturnik z Tortugi
Film • 1965
jako Alfonso di Montélimar
I misteri della giungla nera
Film • 1964
jako Souyadhana
Sfida a Rio Bravo
Film • 1964
jako Wyatt Earp / Laramie
Sandokan kontra Lampart
Film • 1964
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Sandokan alla riscossa
Film • 1964
jako Yanez
Il vendicatore mascherato
Film • 1964
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Winnetou i Old Shatterhand
Film • 1964
jako Capt. Bradley
Il boia di Venezia
Film • 1963
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Kobiety z Diabelskiej Wyspy
Film • 1962
jako Henri Vallière
Rozamunda i Alboin
Film • 1961
jako Amalchi
La schiava di Roma
Film • 1961
jako Marco Valerio
Jet Over The Atlantic
Film • 1959
jako Brett Murphy
Bullwhip
Film • 1958
jako Steve Daley
The Hard Man
Film • 1957
jako Steve Burden
Not One Shall Die
Film • 1957
jako Stefan Gross
Reprisal!
Film • 1956
jako Frank Madden
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Serial • 1956
jako Jericho - Federal Agent
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Film • 1956
jako Jimmy Ryan
Hilda Crane
Film • 1956
jako Russell Burns
On the Threshold of Space
Film • 1956
jako Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
The Last Frontier
Film • 1955
jako Captain Glenn Riordan
5 Against the House
Film • 1955
jako Al Mercer
The Tilted Tenderfoot
Film • 1955
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The Matchmaking Marshal
Film • 1955
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Phantom Trails
Film • 1955
jako Wild Bill Hickok
Timber Country Trouble
Film • 1955
jako Wild Bill Hickok
Trouble on the Trail
Film • 1954
jako Wild Bill Hickok
Outlaw's Son
Film • 1954
jako Wild Bill Hickok
Marshals in Disguise
Film • 1954
jako Wild Bill Hickok
The Two Gun Teacher
Film • 1954
jako Wild Bill Hickok
Climax!
Serial • 1954
The Command
Film • 1954
jako Capt. Robert MacClaw
Six Gun Decision
Film • 1953
jako Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
Secret of Outlaw Flats
Film • 1953
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Two Gun Marshal
Film • 1953
jako Wild Bill Hickok
Border City Rustlers
Film • 1953
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The Charge at Feather River
Film • 1953
jako Miles Archer
General Electric Theater
Serial • 1953
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Behind Southern Lines
Film • 1952
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Trail of the Arrow
Film • 1952
jako Wild Bill Hickok
The Yellow Haired Kid
Film • 1952
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The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Film • 1952
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The Ford Television Theatre
Serial • 1952
jako John Harpurhey
Red Snow
Film • 1952
jako Lt. Phil Johnson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Serial • 1951
Drums in the Deep South
Film • 1951
jako Maj. Will Denning
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Serial • 1951
jako Wild Bill Hickok
What's My Line?
Serial • 1950
jako Self
Massacre River
Film • 1949
jako Larry Knight
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Film • 1948
jako Eddie Tayloe
Honeymoon
Film • 1947
jako Corporal Phil Vaughn
Till the End of Time
Film • 1946
jako Cliff W. Harper
Since You Went Away
Film • 1944
jako Harold E. Smith