Guy Madison 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.
Madison in 1957
Guy Madison and Diana Lynn in Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven, 1948
Guy Madison by Don Ornitz, 1954
Gail Russell (left), future wife of Guy Madison (right) April 1946
James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation.
James B. Hickok in the 1860s, during his pre-gunfighter days
David C. McCanles, alleged leader of the McCanles Gang, in 1860
Wild Bill Hickok in 1869
Hickok, Texas Jack Omohundro, and Buffalo Bill Cody as the "Scouts of the Plains" in 1873