Guy Madison is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958.
22 Facts About Guy Madison
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Guy Madison was born January 19,1922, in Pumpkin Center, California.
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Guy Madison attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the US Navy in 1942 during World War II.
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Guy Madison had three brothers, Wayne, Harold and David, and a sister, Rosemary.
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In 1944, Guy Madison was visiting Hollywood on leave when his boyish good looks and physique caught the eye of Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O Selznick's newly formed Vanguard Pictures.
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Willson was widely known for his stable of good-looking young actors with unusual names that he had bestowed upon them, and he immediately rechristened Moseley as Guy Madison and cast him in a bit part as a sailor in Selznick's Since You Went Away.
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Guy Madison received extensive coverage in the influential fan magazines of the time, including Photoplay where his agent Henry Willson had once worked.
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Guy Madison's second starring role paired him with fellow Selznick contract player Shirley Temple in Honeymoon, which was a huge flop.
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Guy Madison's career began to suffer, in part because of his limited acting ability.
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Guy Madison appeared in Massacre River and Drums in the Deep South.
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Guy Madison was eventually dropped by Selznick, along with most of Selznick's contract-players.
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Guy Madison went to Britain for Jet Over the Atlantic then went to Europe, where he found greater success in sword-and-sandal, spaghetti Western and macaroni combat films.
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Guy Madison went to Italy for Slave of Rome, Sword of the Conqueror, Women of Devil's Island, and The Executioner of Venice.
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Guy Madison went to Germany for Old Shatterhand then made a spaghetti Western, Desafio en Rio Bravo.
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Guy Madison did Kidnapped to Mystery Island, Gentlemen of the Night, The Adventurer of Tortuga, Legacy of the Incas, Renegade Riders, and Son of Django.
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Guy Madison made Bang Bang Kid, The Devil's Man, Superargo and the Faceless Giants, Long Days of Hate, Hell in Normandy, Battle of the Last Panzer, and Reverend's Colt.
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Later that month, Guy Madison married actress Sheila Connolly in Juarez, Mexico.
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Guy Madison had an affair with Gia Scala and, before her death, she made him the beneficiary to her portion of the Screen Actors Pension Fund.
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Guy Madison had a son, Robert Madison, who became an actor.
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Guy Madison was a Republican who supported Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.
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Guy Madison died of emphysema at the Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs, California, on February 6,1996, at the age of 74.
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Guy Madison is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California.