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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)

Crossbow: The Movie
as Gerrish

Red River
as Bill Meeker, Rancher

Crossbow

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self

Where's Willie?
as Tony Flore

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Star at Screening

The Pacific Connection
as The Old Man

The Silk Worm
as Robert, Smeralda's ex-husband

Reverend's Colt
as Miller Colt

The War Devils
as Capt. George Vincent

Hell Commandos
as Major Carter

The Battle of the Last Panzer
as Lofty

A Place In Hell
as Major Mac Graves

Hell in Normandy
as Capt. Jack Murphy

This Man Can't Die
as Martin Benson

Superargo and the Faceless Giants
as Prof. Wendland Wond

Bang Bang Kid
as Bear Bullock

The Devil's Man
as Mike Harway

Son of Django
as Father Fleming

Payment in Blood
as Colonel Thomas Blake

LSD Flesh of Devil
as Rex Miller

Five for Revenge
as Tex

Legacy of the Incas
as Jaguar / Karl Hansen

Adventurer of Tortuga
as Alfonso di Montélimar

Kidnapped to Mystery Island
as Souyadhana

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Wyatt Earp / Laramie

Return of Sandokan
as Yanez

Sandokan Fights Back
as Yanez

Gentlemen of the Night
as Massimo

Old Shatterhand
as Capt. Bradley

Blood of the Executioner
as Rodrigo Zeno

Women of Devil's Island
as Henri Vallière

Sword of the Conqueror
as Amalchi

Slave of Rome
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Jet Over The Atlantic
as Brett Murphy

Bullwhip
as Steve Daley

The Hard Man
as Steve Burden

Not One Shall Die
as Stefan Gross

Reprisal!
as Frank Madden

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jericho - Federal Agent

The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Jimmy Ryan

Hilda Crane
as Russell Burns

On the Threshold of Space
as Capt. Jim Hollenbeck

The Last Frontier
as Captain Glenn Riordan

5 Against the House
as Al Mercer

The Matchmaking Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok

The Tilted Tenderfoot
as Wild Bill Hickok

Phantom Trails
as Wild Bill Hickok

Timber Country Trouble
as Wild Bill Hickok

Trouble on the Trail
as Wild Bill Hickok

Outlaw's Son
as Wild Bill Hickok

Marshals in Disguise
as Wild Bill Hickok

The Two Gun Teacher
as Wild Bill Hickok

Climax!

The Command
as Capt. Robert MacClaw

Six Gun Decision
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok

Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Marshal James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok

Two Gun Marshal
as Wild Bill Hickok

Border City Rustlers
as Wild Bill Hickok