Guy Madison
Guy Madison was born in Bakersfield, California, United States on January 19th, 1922 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 74, Guy Madison biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley; January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film, television, and radio actor.
He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958. During his career, Madison was given a special Golden Globe Award in 1954 and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Early life
Madison was born in Pumpkin Center, California. He attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the United States Navy in 1942, during World War II. He had three brothers, Wayne, Harold and David, and a sister, Rosemary. Wayne Moseley was an actor, using the stage name Wayne Mallory.
Personal life
Madison married the actress Gail Russell in 1949. They separated in 1953 and divorced in October 1954.
Later that month, Madison married actress Sheila Connolly in Juarez, Mexico. They had three daughters: Bridget, Erin, and Dolly. They separated in November 1960 and divorced in April 1963. He had an affair with Gia Scala and, before her death, she made him the beneficiary to her portion of the Screen Actors Pension Fund. He had a son, Robert Madison, who also became an actor.
He was a Republican who supported Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.
Career
Madison was on leave from Hollywood when Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O. Selznick's newly established Vanguard Pictures, caught his boyish good looks and physique. Willson was well-known for his group of good-looking young actors with unusual names, and he rechristened Moseley as Madison and cast him as a sailor in Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944).
Despite being on the screen for only three minutes, thousands of letters from fans eager to know more about him. He had received a lot of attention in the time's influential fan magazines, including Photoplay, where his agent Henry Willson had once worked.
Madison's service has been restored to military service. Selznick owed his work to RKO Pictures when he got out. In Till the End of Time, a drama about veterans returning from World War II (1946), RKO gave him a leading role. Despite being overshadowed by The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), another film on a similar theme, the film was a big hit. Madison's behavior was also mocked as wooden.
In Honeymoon (1947), Madison's second film role paired him with Selznick contract player Shirley Temple, which was a major failure. In part, his career began to suffer due to his inexperience in acting.
William Castle lent Madison to Texas, Brooklyn, and Heaven (1948). He appeared in Massacre River (1949) and Drums in the Deep South (1951).
Madison was eventually dropped by Selznick, as well as the majority of Selznick's contract-players. He appeared as the title character in the television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–58), co-starring Andy Devine as his pal, Pete "Jingles" Jones. The series lasted for seven years. During the run of the show, sixteen feature films, made up of episodes, were released by Monogram Pictures as a whole story.
Madison also made features; The Charge at Feather River (1953), a Columbia film shot in 1954), a big hit for Fox; and The Last Frontier (1955), a Western; and Bullwhip (1958), another Western.
Madison travelled to Britain for Jet Over the Atlantic (1959) and then moved to Europe, where he found greater success in sword-and-sandal, spaghetti Western, and macaroni combat films. He went to Rome for Slave of Rome (1961), Sword of the Conqueror (1961), Women of Devil's Island (1962), and The Executioner of Venice (1963).
Madison traveled to Germany for Old Shatterhand (1964) and then created Desafo en Ro Bravo (1964). Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964), Gentlemen of the Night (1964), The Incas (1964), The Legend of the Innocence (1967), Son of Django (1967).
Bang Bang Kid (1967) (1967), The Devil's Man (1967), The Devil's Children (1968), The Eye of Hate (1968), Hell in Normandy (1968), and Reverend's Colt (1970).