American actor Guy Madison was BOTD in 1922. Born Robert Moseley in Pumpkin Centre, California, he attended Bakersfield College before joining the US Navy in 1942. While on shore leave in California, he was talent-scouted by Hollywood agent (and notorious homosexual) Henry Willson and signed to Vanguard Pictures. He made a brief appearance as a sailor in the 1944 film Since You Went Away, generating thousands of letters from besotted fans. He returned to the Navy for the remainder of World War Two, returning to Hollywood after the war and transferring to RKO Pictures. He was given a starring role in the 1946 war drama Till the End of Time. The film was a commercial success, though Madison was criticised for his wooden acting. His next starring role, in the 1947 comedy Honeymoon, was a box office disaster, effectively ending his career as a leading man. He is best known for his starring role in the TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, running for eight seasons from 1951 to 1958. The show’s popularity revived his Hollywood career, and he appeared in popular war stories and Westerns throughout the 1950s. After appearing in the British film Jet Over the Atlantic, he remained in Europe throughout most of the 1960s, finding success in spaghetti Westerns filmed in Italy and Germany. Largely retired by the 1970s, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986 for his contributions to television. Twice married and with three children, his sexuality has been extensively debated by biographers and film historians. In his biography of Howard Hughes, Darwin Porter claimed that Madison was the lover of both Willson and Hughes, who clothed and housed him and flew him around the country on private jets. Madison died in 1996, aged 74.