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)
Guy Madison Biography / Wiki
| Name | Guy Madison |
| Also Know | Гай ÐœÑдиÑон |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Pumpkin Center, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1922-01-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday | 1996-02-06 |
Guy Madison Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| 5 Against the House | Al Mercer | 1955-06-10 | Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino…. |
| Legacy of the Incas | Jaguar / Karl Hansen | 1965-09-08 | During the 1800s, Peru’s government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and… |
| This Man Can’t Die | Martin Benson | 1968-04-05 | An undercover government agent sets out for revenge upon those responsible for the murder of his parents and the assault of his sister…. |
| Five for Revenge | Tex | 1966-10-12 | A few Western-types seek out a friend’s murderer… |
| Reverend’s Colt | Reverend Miller Colt | 1970-12-24 | Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the p… |
| Women of Devil’s Island | Henri Vallière | 1962-07-27 | Italian costume drama about convicted women in France being sent to the penal colony on Devil’s Island where they must wade through alligator-infested… |
| The Beast of Hollow Mountain | Jimmy Ryan | 1956-08-01 | An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur…. |
| The Command | Capt. Robert MacClaw | 1954-02-13 | Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor…. |
| Jet Over The Atlantic | Brett Murphy | 1959-11-04 | Director Byron Haskin’s 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready… |
| Bullwhip | Steve Daley | 1958-05-25 | In order to avoid the hangman’s noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead…. |
| The Bang-Bang Kid | Bear Bullock | 1967-11-14 | Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is… |
| The War Devils | Capt. George Vincent | 1969-12-19 | A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat oper… |
| Gunmen Of The Rio Grande | Wyatt Earp / Laramie | 1964-11-19 | Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery…. |
| The Hard Man | Steve Burden | 1957-12-01 | A Texas Ranger (Guy Madison) turns deputy sheriff; a woman (Valerie French) wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband (Lorne Greene)…. |
| Reprisal! | Frank Madden | 1956-11-02 | New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched th… |
| Gentlemen of the Night | Massimo | 1964-05-10 | Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyran… |
| The Charge at Feather River | Miles Archer | 1953-07-11 | A frontier scout (Guy Madison) leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women…. |
| On the Threshold of Space | Capt. Jim Hollenbeck | 1956-03-29 | Director Robert D. Webb’s 1956 drama, about the early days of the U.S. space program and the men who undergo extensive testing and endurance tests in … |
| Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven | Eddie Tayloe | 1948-07-16 | Eddie Tayloe’s grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and … |
| Red Snow | Lt. Phil Johnson | 1952-07-07 | Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test … |
| Adventurer of Tortuga | Alfonso di Montélimar | 1965-08-12 | In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress…. |
| Hell Commandos | Major Carter | 1969-06-07 | Spanish-Italian war movie…. |
| Kidnapped to Mystery Island | Souyadhana | 1964-12-27 | Three year old Ada, daughter of the British captain McPherson, is captured by the Indian Tukh sect to represent the incarnation of Kali. Ever hidden i… |
| Hell in Normandy | Capt. Jack Murphy | 1968-08-13 | The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower … |
| Trouble on the Trail | Wild Bill Hickok | 1954-12-26 | “Trouble on the Trail” is two episodes of the “Wild Bill Hickok” television series edited together and released as a feature film by Allied Artists…. |
| Border City Rustlers | Wild Bill Hickok | 1953-11-15 | Two episodes of “Wild Bill Hickok” edited together and released as a feature…. |
| Secret of Outlaw Flats | Marshal James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok | 1953-11-15 | Two episodes from the “Wild Bill Hickok” TV series edited together and released as a feature…. |
| The Yellow Haired Kid | Wild Bill Hickok | 1952-11-02 | Two episodes of the TV series “Wild Bill Hickok”, The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature…. |
| Six Gun Decision | Marshal James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok | 1953-11-15 | A compilation of two episodes from the “Wild Bill Hickok” TV series, Border City Election and Pony Express vs. Telegraph, edited together and released… |
| Trail of the Arrow | Wild Bill Hickok | 1952-11-02 | Two episodes of the TV series “Wild Bill Hickok” edited together and released as a feature…. |
| Massacre River | Larry Knight | 1949-06-26 | Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel’s Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles…. |
| LSD Flesh of Devil | Rex Miller | 1967-02-02 | E.C.H.O., a secret organization with a strange name masterminds a bizarre plot to take over the world by dosing important `nerve centers’ with super p… |
| The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon | Marshal James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok | 1952-11-01 | Two episodes of the TV series “Wild Bill Hickok” edited together and released as a feature…. |
| The Two Gun Teacher | Wild Bill Hickok | 1954-12-26 | Two episodes of the TV series “Wild Bill Hickok” edited together and released as a feature…. |
| Devilman Story | Mike Harway | 1967-06-30 | Journalist Mike Harway decides to help his friend Christine in her search for her father, professor Baker, who mysteriously disappeared. The investiga… |
| A Place In Hell | Major Mac Graves | 1969-01-10 | A drunken war correspondent, a prostitute and happy-go-lucky Italian GI barely escape a bombing of Manila, only to realize that the island they land o… |
| Timber Country Trouble | Wild Bill Hickok | 1955-01-01 | A short feature western comprising two episodes of the “Wild Bill Hickok” TV series, the episodes being “Lumber Camp Story” (4/21/1952) and “Boy And T… |
| Phantom Trails | Wild Bill Hickok | 1955-01-01 | A short feature western comprised of two episodes of the TV series ‘Wild Bill Hickok’: “A Close Shave for the Marshal” (6/16/1952) and “Ghost Rider” (… |
| Not One Shall Die | Stefan Gross | 1957-01-01 | A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core c… |
| Behind Southern Lines | Wild Bill Hickok | 1952-11-02 | Two episodes of the TV series “Wild Bill Hickok” edited together and released as a feature…. |
| The Last Frontier | Glenn Riordan | 1955-12-07 | Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston)…. |
| Return of Django | Father Fleming | 1967-05-26 | The son of Django searches for the murderer of his father and is thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by former acquaintances of his … |
| Till the End of Time | Cliff W. Harper | 1946-07-23 | Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can’t deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with … |
| Payment in Blood | Colonel Thomas Blake | 1967-04-14 | Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard’s missing gold. … |
| Hilda Crane | Russell Burns | 1956-05-08 | After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew…. |
| Blood of the Executioner | Rodrigo Zeno | 1963-09-19 | Set in medieval Venice, this swashbuckler chronicles the courage of an executioner and his godson as they attempt to show that the Grand Inquisitor is… |
| Slave of Rome | Marco Valerio | 1961-02-02 | During Julius Caesar’s invasion of Gallia: The Gauls have broken their treaty with the Romans. Marcus Valerius and his friend are sent to punish them…. |
| Sandokan Fights Back | Yanez | 1964-08-13 | When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets of to claim his land back…. |
| Superargo and the Faceless Giants | Prof. Wendland Wond | 1968-01-26 | A masked wrestler/superhero goes up against a madman and his army of robots…. |
| Where’s Willie? | Tony Flore | 1978-04-12 | An 8-year old boy invents a hand-held computer which can control any electronic device, and uses it to affect the entire town where he lives…. |
| Drums in the Deep South | Maj. Will Denning | 1951-09-01 | Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain…. |
| Return of Sandokan | Yanez | 1964-10-18 | … |
| Honeymoon | Corporal Phil Vaughn | 1947-05-17 | A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City…. |
| Sword of the Conqueror | Amalchi | 1961-08-24 | Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, whi… |
| The Battle of the Last Panzer | Lofty | 1969-01-23 | The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get… |
| The Pacific Connection | The Old Man | 1974-11-14 | Roland Dantes plays Ben, a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. One of the sons is played by a young Dean… |
| Old Shatterhand | Capt. Bradley | 1964-04-30 | Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers…. |
| The Silk Worm | Robert, Smeralda’s ex-husband | 1973-01-01 | Smeralda Amadier, a retired singer, lives in an isolated villa with her secretary Marcella and her lover Didier (but throws out the latter after catch… |
| Red River | Bill Meeker, Rancher | 1988-04-10 | Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive…. |
| Since You Went Away | Sailor Harold E. Smith | 1944-06-30 | While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make en… |
| Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Star at Screening | 1976-07-26 | A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s…. |
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