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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 19, 1922
Died
February 6, 1996
Place of Birth
Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Also Known As
- Гай Мэдисон
- Robert Ozell Moseley
Guy Madison
0.2 Popularity
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)
Known For
7.6
Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
7.0
Gerrish
Crossbow: The Movie
1989
6.1
Bill Meeker, Rancher
Red River
1988
0.0
Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
0.0
Lt. Mayo
The Rebels
1979
0.0
Tony Flore
Where's Willie?
1978
4.1
Star at Screening
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
4.3
The Old Man
The Pacific Connection
1974
6.5
Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
The Silk Worm
1974
5.1
Miller Colt
Reverend's Colt
1970
Credits
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
2004
7.6
Crossbow: The Movie
as Gerrish
1989
7.0
Red River
as Bill Meeker, Rancher
1988
6.1
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
0.0
The Rebels
as Lt. Mayo
1979
0.0
Where's Willie?
as Tony Flore
1978
0.0
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Star at Screening
1976
4.1
The Pacific Connection
as The Old Man
1974
4.3
The Silk Worm
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
1974
6.5
Reverend's Colt
as Miller Colt
1970
5.1
The War Devils
as Capt. George Vincent
1969
6.0
Hell Commandos
as Major Carter
1969
5.0
The Battle of the Last Panzer
as Lofty
1969
5.0
A Place In Hell
as Major Mac Graves
1969
4.8
Hell in Normandy
as Capt. Jack Murphy
1968
4.1
This Man Can't Die
as Martin Benson
1968
4.6
Superargo and the Faceless Giants
as Prof. Wendland Wond
1968
5.1
The Bang-Bang Kid
as Bear Bullock
1967
5.2
The Devil's Man
as Mike Harway
1967
5.0
Son of Django
as Father Fleming
1967
6.1
Payment in Blood
as Colonel Thomas Blake
1967
5.4
LSD Flesh of Devil
as Rex Miller
1967
5.7
Five for Revenge
as Tex
1966
4.5
Legacy of the Incas
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen
1965
6.3
Adventurer of Tortuga
as Alfonso di Montélimar
1965
5.0
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
as Souyadhana
1964
6.2
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie
1964
5.2
Return of Sandokan
as Yanez
1964
7.0
Sandokan Fights Back
as Yanez
1964
5.5
Gentlemen of the Night
as Massimo
1964
0.0
Old Shatterhand
as Capt. Bradley
1964
6.2
Blood of the Executioner
as Rodrigo Zeno
1963
4.4
Women of Devil's Island
as Henri Vallière
1962
3.7
Sword of the Conqueror
as Amalchi
1961
5.5
Slave of Rome
as Marco Valerio
1961
4.2
Jet Over The Atlantic
as Brett Murphy
1959
5.4
Bullwhip
as Steve Daley
1958
4.4
The Hard Man
as Steve Burden
1957
4.8
Not One Shall Die
as Stefan Gross
1957
0.0
Reprisal!
as Frank Madden
1956
7.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jericho - Federal Agent
1956
6.0
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Jimmy Ryan
1956
4.2
Hilda Crane
as Russell Burns
1956
7.2
On the Threshold of Space
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
1956
4.0
The Last Frontier
as Captain Glenn Riordan
1955
6.1
5 Against the House
as Al Mercer
1955
5.9
Timber Country Trouble
as Wild Bill Hickok
1955
0.0
The Matchmaking Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok
1955
0.0
The Tilted Tenderfoot
as Wild Bill Hickok
1955
0.0
Phantom Trails
as Wild Bill Hickok
1955
0.0
The Two Gun Teacher
as Wild Bill Hickok
1954
0.0
Outlaw's Son
as Wild Bill Hickok
1954
0.0
Marshals in Disguise
as Wild Bill Hickok
1954
0.0
Trouble on the Trail
as Wild Bill Hickok
1954
0.0
Climax!
1954
3.3
The Command
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
1954
6.2
Two Gun Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok
1953
0.0
Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
1953
0.0
Border City Rustlers
as Wild Bill Hickok
1953
0.0
Six Gun Decision
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
1953
0.0
The Charge at Feather River
as Miles Archer
1953
5.6
General Electric Theater
as Adam Tenney
1953
6.4
The Yellow Haired Kid
as Wild Bill Hickok
1952
0.0
Trail of the Arrow
as Wild Bill Hickok
1952
0.0
Behind Southern Lines
as Wild Bill Hickok
1952
0.0
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
1952
0.0
The Ford Television Theatre
as John Harpurhey
1952
7.3
Red Snow
as Lt. Phil Johnson
1952
3.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Drums in the Deep South
as Maj. Will Denning
1951
5.0
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Wild Bill Hickok
1951
4.5
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Massacre River
as Larry Knight
1949
6.2
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Eddie Tayloe
1948
5.3
Honeymoon
as Corporal Phil Vaughn
1947
6.4
Till the End of Time
as Cliff W. Harper
1946
6.4
Since You Went Away
as Sailor Harold E. Smith
1944
6.5