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Where's Willie?

as Tony Flore

1978
Reverend's Colt

as Reverend Miller Colt

1970
Hell in Normandy

as Capt. Jack Murphy

1968
Return of Django

as Father Fleming

1967
Adventurer of Tortuga

as Alfonso di Montélimar

1965
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

as Wyatt Earp / Laramie

1965
Sword of the Conqueror

as Amalchi

1962
Slave of Rome

as Marco Valerio

1961
Jet Over The Atlantic

as Brett Murphy

1959
The Hard Man

as Steve Burden

1957
The Beast of Hollow Mountain

as Jimmy Ryan

1956
The Last Frontier

as Captain Glenn Riordan

1955
5 Against the House

as Al Mercer

1955
The Command

as Capt. Robert MacClaw

1954
Trouble on the Trail

as Wild Bill Hickok

1954
The Charge at Feather River

as Miles Archer

1953
Border City Rustlers

as Wild Bill Hickok

1953
The Yellow Haired Kid

as Wild Bill Hickok

1952
Trail of the Arrow

as Wild Bill Hickok

1952
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as Wild Bill Hickok

1951
Drums in the Deep South

as Maj. Will Denning

1951
Massacre River

as Larry Knight

1949
Till the End of Time

as Cliff W. Harper

1946
Guy Madison Guy Madison

Birthday

1922-01-19

Place of Birth

Pumpkin Center, California, USA

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)
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