Education
Born Robert Ozell Moseley in Pumpkin Center, California, Madison 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 World War World War II
Career
Wayne Moseley was an actor, using the stage name Wayne Mallory. In 1944, while he was visiting Hollywood on leave, the young Navy man"s boyish good looks and physique caught the eye of Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O. Selznick"s newly formed Vanguard Pictures. Willson was widely known for his stable of good-looking, marginally-talented actors with unusual names that he had bestowed upon them, and he immediately rechristened Moseley as Madison and cast him in a bit part as a sailor in Selznick"s Since You Went Away.
Following the film"s release in 1944, the studio received thousands of letters from fans wanting to know more about him.
Madison was signed by Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures in 1946 and began appearing in romantic comedies and dramas. In 1951 he was cast as the title character in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, co-starring Andy Devine as his pal, Pete "Jingles" Jones.
The series ran for seven years. During the run of the show, sixteen feature films were released by Monogram Pictures between 1952 and 1955 that consisted of combined episodes of the series.
Following his television series, he appeared in several more films before leaving for Europe, where he found greater success in sword-and-sandal, spaghetti western and macaroni combat films.
On February 6, 1996, Madison died of emphysema at the Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs, California at the age of 74. He was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California. Foreign his contribution to the radio and television industries, Guy Madison has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The star for radio contributions is located at 6933 Hollywood boulevard and the star for his television contributions is located at 6333 Hollywood Boulevard
In 1996, a Golden Palm Star was dedicated to Madison on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars.