Highest rated movie: Since You Went Away (1944)
Lowest rated movie: Drums in the Deep South (1951)
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Looking for reviews of Guy Madison movies? Cinafilm has a total of 334 reviews across 15 movies.
Movies starring Guy Madison have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
Since You Went Away - released in 1944 - is Guy Madison's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 44 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Guy Madison is Drums in the Deep South - released in 1951 - with a score of 44% based on 3 reviews.
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.
Guy Madison has acted in films with Rhonda Fleming, Denver Pyle, James Whitmore and Shirley Temple.
Guy Madison has worked with these film directors: Gordon Douglas, George Sherman, Michael Winner and John Cromwell.
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