| Regis Toomey | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Regis Toomey August 13, 1898 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 12, 1991 (aged 93) Los Angles, California, U.S |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1929 - 1987 |
| Spouse(s) | Kathryn Scott (1925-1981) |
John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 - October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was one of four children of Francis X. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The United States of America —commonly referred to as the and Mary Ellen Toomey and attended Peabody High School. Peabody High School is a Public school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in the neighborhood of East Liberty. 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 on Broadway. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University Sigma Chi ( ΣΧ) is one of the largest and oldest all-male college Greek-letter social fraternities and a Secret society. Toomey was a singer on stage until throat problems (acute laryngitis) while touring in Europe stopped that aspect of his career. Laryngitis is an Inflammation of the Larynx. It causes hoarse voice or the complete loss of the voice because of irritation to the Vocal folds In 1929, Toomey first began appearing in films. He initially started out as a leading man but then found more success as a character actor (sans his toupee. A character actor is an Actor who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading ones A toupée is a hairpiece or partial wig of natural or synthetic hair worn to cover partial Baldness or for theatrical purposes )
Toomey appeared in over 180 films, including classics such as The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart. The Big Sleep is a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, with two film versions one filmed in 1945, and another filmed in 1978. He was one of the stars of the ABC series Burke's Law from 1963-66, playing Sgt. Burke's Law is a detective series which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s Les Hart, one of the detectives assisting the murder investigations of millionaire police captain Amos Burke. He also guest-starred on dozens of television programs, including the "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" episode of Maverick. Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, remains the most famous and widely discussed episode of the Western Comedy Maverick is a Comedy - western television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8
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. Jane Wyman ( January 5, 1917 &ndash September 10, 2007) was an American actress. [1]
Selected filmography
- Graft (1931)
- The Invisible Menace (1938)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
- You're in the Army Now (1941)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Spellbound (1945)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Raw Deal (1948)
- Show Boat (1951 version) (as Sheriff Vallon)
- My Pal Gus (1952) (as Farley Norris)
- The High and the Mighty (1954)
- Guys and Dolls (1955) (as Uncle Arvide Abernathy. Graft is a 1931 Thriller film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Regis Toomey and featuring Boris Karloff. The Invisible Menace is a 1938 Mystery film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff. Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a Spy thriller and the first blatantly anti- Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama Film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland Phantom Lady ( 1944) is a black-and-white Film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, his first Hollywood noir Spellbound ( 1945) is a psychological mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Big Sleep ( 1946) directed by Howard Hawks, is the first film version of Raymond Chandler 's novel of the same name (1939 Raw Deal is a 1948 Film noir directed by Anthony Mann and shot by cinematographer John Alton. Show Boat ( 1951) is a film based on the musical by Jerome Kern (music and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics and the novel by My Pal Gus is a 1952 Dramedy which follows Gus (George Winslow who is the young son of divorced industrialist Dave Jennings (Richard Widmark Guys and Dolls is a 1955 Musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. In the stage version, Arvide sings one song, More I Cannot Wish You, but the song was dropped from the film)
External links
- Regis Toomey at the Internet Movie Database
- Regis Toomey at the TCM Movie Database
- Find-A-Grave profile for Regis Toomey
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