Guy Madison
Birthday: 1922-01-19
Place of Birth: Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Synopsis
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)
Acting
Where's Willie?
as Tony Flore
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.
Reverend's Colt
as Reverend Miller Colt
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 people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame him for the robbery. The sheriff saves him from lynching by putting him in jail. Then he asks the priest to find the gang and the booty; thus Miller becomes the Reverend Colt. His exceptional skill means that he can shoot hats off people's heads and their pistols from their pockets, but he never kills.
The Battle of the Last Panzer
as Lofty
The Allied D-Day invasion is a success, and German forces begin leave Normandy. After an ambush takes out a set of Panzer tanks led by German Lt. Hunter, he finds himself alone with his unit in what may be the last Panzer that's still operational. While traveling through the French countryside, Cooper meets Jeanette, a woman who offers to lead the troops back to Germany, but his feelings for her get in the way of his survival instincts.
Hell in Normandy
as Capt. Jack Murphy
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 installation on Omaha Beach.
Return of Django
as Father Fleming
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 famous parent.
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Adventurer of Tortuga
as Alfonso di Montélimar
In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress.
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Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie
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.
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Sword of the Conqueror
as Amalchi
Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, which he believes will be beneficial to him, only to have Alboino kill him and leave Amalchi, his daughter's real love, beaten and left for dead. Amalchi recovers to lead a revolt against the murderous Alboino and reclaim his woman.
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Slave of Rome
as Marco Valerio
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. Antea's father wants to have peace with Rome, having once been there and acknowledging their superior culture, but Lysircus forces a severely anti-Roman politic. When her father is killed by him in treachery, Antea joins the Romans who have to evade into a swamp. She falls in love with Marcus. Will she forsake her people forever?
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Jet Over The Atlantic
as Brett Murphy
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.
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The Hard Man
as Steve Burden
A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
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The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Jimmy Ryan
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
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5 Against the House
as Al Mercer
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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The Last Frontier
as Captain Glenn Riordan
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
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The Command
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
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Trouble on the Trail
as Wild Bill Hickok
"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.
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The Charge at Feather River
as Miles Archer
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
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Border City Rustlers
as Wild Bill Hickok
Two episodes of "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Trail of the Arrow
as Wild Bill Hickok
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Yellow Haired Kid
as Wild Bill Hickok
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
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Drums in the Deep South
as Maj. Will Denning
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Massacre River
as Larry Knight
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
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Till the End of Time
as Cliff W. Harper
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 bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
