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Article: Guy Madison best known as `Wild Bill'
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1996
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Guy Madison, 1940s matinee idol who found his niche in Westerns
and was best remembered for his long-running 1950s television series
"The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," died Tuesday. He was 74.
Madison, who made more than 85 motion pictures, died of emphysema
at Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs, Calif. He had been in
ill health for some time.
Born Robert Ozell Moseley in Bakersfield, Calif., Madison
portrayed the handsome Marshal James Butler Hickok from 1951 to 1958
in a precursor to other popular series about historic frontier
figures, including Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Kit Carson. The
real Wild Bill Hickok a Pony Express rider, ...