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Guy Madison

Guy Madison

Acting Born Jan 19, 1922 -- Died Feb 06, 1996 · Pumpkin Center, California, USA

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. S...

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Old Shatterhand
6.2
movie
Old Shatterhand
as Capt. Bradley
1964
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.6
movie
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)
2004
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
4.2
movie
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Jimmy Ryan
1956
Since You Went Away
6.5
movie
Since You Went Away
as Sailor Harold E. Smith
1944
5 Against the House
5.9
movie
5 Against the House
as Al Mercer
1955
The Last Frontier
6.1
movie
The Last Frontier
as Captain Glenn Riordan
1955
What's My Line?
7.0
tv
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
Till the End of Time
6.4
movie
Till the End of Time
as Cliff W. Harper
1946
The Command
6.2
movie
The Command
as Capt. Robert MacClaw
1954
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.1
movie
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Star at Screening
1976
This Man Can't Die
4.6
movie
This Man Can't Die
as Martin Benson
1968
Payment in Blood
5.4
movie
Payment in Blood
as Colonel Thomas Blake
1967