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)

Фільмографія

• 1989Crossbow: The Movie — Gerrish
• 1988Red River — Bill Meeker, Rancher
• Crossbow
• 1978Where's Willie? — Tony Flore
• 1977Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
• 1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood — Star at Screening
• 1974The Pacific Connection — The Old Man
• 1974The Silk Worm — Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband
• 1970Reverend's Colt — Miller Colt
• 1969A Place In Hell — Major Mac Graves
• 1969Hell Commandos — Major Carter
• 1969The Battle of the Last Panzer — Lofty
• 1969The War Devils — Capt. George Vincent
• 1968Hell in Normandy — Capt. Jack Murphy
• 1968Superargo and the Faceless Giants — Prof. Wendland Wond
• 1968This Man Can't Die — Martin Benson
• 1967Bang Bang Kid — Bear Bullock
• 1967LSD Flesh of Devil — Rex Miller
• 1967Payment in Blood — Colonel Thomas Blake
• 1967Son of Django — Father Fleming
• 1967The Devil's Man — Mike Harway
• 1966Five for Revenge — Tex
• 1965Adventurer of Tortuga — Alfonso di Montélimar
• 1965Legacy of the Incas — Jaguar / Karl Hansen
• 1964Gentlemen of the Night — Massimo
• 1964Gunmen Of The Rio Grande — Wyatt Earp / Laramie
• 1964Kidnapped to Mystery Island — Souyadhana
• 1964Old Shatterhand — Capt. Bradley
• 1964Return of Sandokan — Yanez
• 1964Sandokan Fights Back — Yanez
• 1963Blood of the Executioner — Rodrigo Zeno
• 1962Women of Devil's Island — Henri Vallière
• 1961Slave of Rome — Marco Valerio
• 1961Sword of the Conqueror — Amalchi
• 1959Jet Over The Atlantic — Brett Murphy
• 1958Bullwhip — Steve Daley
• 1957Not One Shall Die — Stefan Gross
• 1957The Hard Man — Steve Burden
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Jericho - Federal Agent
• 1956Hilda Crane — Russell Burns
• 1956On the Threshold of Space — Capt. Jim Hollenbeck
• 1956Reprisal! — Frank Madden
• 1956The Beast of Hollow Mountain — Jimmy Ryan
• 19555 Against the House — Al Mercer
• 1955Phantom Trails — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1955The Last Frontier — Captain Glenn Riordan
• 1955The Matchmaking Marshal — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1955The Tilted Tenderfoot — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1955Timber Country Trouble — Wild Bill Hickok
• Climax!
• 1954Marshals in Disguise — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1954Outlaw's Son — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1954The Command — Capt. Robert MacClaw
• 1954The Two Gun Teacher — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1954Trouble on the Trail — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1953Border City Rustlers — Wild Bill Hickok
• General Electric Theater — Adam Tenney
• 1953Secret of Outlaw Flats — Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
• 1953Six Gun Decision — Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
• 1953The Charge at Feather River — Miles Archer
• 1953Two Gun Marshal — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1952Behind Southern Lines — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1952Red Snow — Lt. Phil Johnson
• The Ford Television Theatre — John Harpurhey
• 1952The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon — Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok
• 1952The Yellow Haired Kid — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1952Trail of the Arrow — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1951Drums in the Deep South — Maj. Will Denning
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok — Wild Bill Hickok
• 1949Massacre River — Larry Knight
• 1948Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven — Eddie Tayloe
• 1947Honeymoon — Corporal Phil Vaughn
• 1946Till the End of Time — Cliff W. Harper
• 1944Since You Went Away — Harold E. Smith

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 1979When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion — Self
• What's My Line? — Self