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Guy Madison
American actor (1922–1996)
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 (radio, television) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Early life
[edit]Madison was born January 19, 1922, in Pumpkin Center, California.[1] He attended Bakersfield College, a junior college,[2][3] for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the U.S. 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.[4]
Career
[edit]David O. Selznick
[edit]In 1944, Madison was visiting Hollywood on leav
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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-i
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The following year’s Honeymoon took him to Mexico City with Shirley Temple, but the film was so slight it’s chiefly notable for behind-the-camera shots of the pair by the pool.
Salvation came from the new medium of television, where he could be a big fish in a small pool. From 1951, he took on the title role in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, the gun-toting lawman of the Wild West, and became a household name. The show ran for five years, during which Madison’s square jaw was to be seen on breakfast cereals, bubblegum cards and toys, one of the first benefactors of the incredible reach and appeal of T.V. Episodes were shamelessly merged into 17 movies, too, which in turn brought new cinema roles. He starred in 1953’s The Charge at Feather River, a western produced in the first flush of 3D technology, with flying arrows and falling horses to the fore. There was also 5 Against the House, a casino heist flick that saw him alongside Kim No