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Gunn

as The Bishop

1967
Man's Favorite Sport?

as Bagley

1964
Burke's Law

as Detective Lester Hart

1963
The Last Sunset

as Milton Wing

1961
Guns of the Timberland

as Sheriff Taylor

1960
Warlock

as Skinner

1959
Joy Ride

as Miles Renny

1958
Curfew Breakers

as Coach Bettger

1957
Dakota Incident

as Minstrel

1956
Top Gun

as Jim O'Hara

1955
Drums Across the River

as Sheriff Jim Beal

1954
Never Wave at a WAC

as General Ned Prager

1953
The Battle at Apache Pass

as Dr. Carter

1952
Cry Danger

as Gus Cobb

1951
Dynamite Pass

as Dan Madden

1950
Beyond the Forest

as Sorren

1949
Mighty Joe Young

as John Young

1949
Raw Deal

as

1948
Station West

as Jim Goddard

1948
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

as Police Inspector Clint Judd

1948
Reaching from Heaven

as Pastor

1948
The Thirteenth Hour

as Don Parker

1947
The Guilty

as Detective Heller

1947
High Tide

as Inspector O'Haffey

1947
Magic Town

as Ed Weaver

1947
Mysterious Intruder

as James Summers

1946
Her Sister's Secret

as Bill Gordon

1946
Strange Illusion

as Dr. Vincent

1945
Regis Toomey Regis Toomey

Birthday

1898-08-13

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 – October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey and attended Peabody High School. He initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. Educated in dramatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi, Toomey began as a stock actor and eventually made it to Broadway. Toomey was a singer on stage until throat problems (acute laryngitis) while touring in Europe stopped that aspect of his career. In 1929, Toomey first began appearing in films. He initially started out as a leading man, but found more success as a character actor (sans his toupee). Toomey appeared in over 180 films, including classics such as The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart. In 1956, he appeared as a judge, with Chuck Connors as "Andy", in the third episode, "The Nevada Nightingale", of the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show. Toomey thereafter appeared in another anthology series too as the character "Harry" in the 1960 episode "The Doctor and the Redhead", with Dick Powell and Felicia Farr, of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson. In the 1961–1962 television season, he appeared in a supporting role with George Nader in the syndicated crime drama Shannon about insurance investigators. From 1963–1966, Toomey was one of the stars of the ABC crime drama, Burke's Law, starring Gene Barry. He played Sergeant Les Hart, one of the detectives assisting the murder investigations of the millionaire police captain Amos Burke. He also guest-starred on dozens of television programs, including the "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" episode of Maverick. In 1941, Toomey appeared in You're in the Army Now, in which he and Jane Wyman had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
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