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Regis Toomey

13th August 1898 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Acting

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.

183 Movies 57 TV Shows 245 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Gunn 28th June 1967 as The Bishop
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Top Gun 1st December 1955 as Jim O'Hara
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Show Boat 19th July 1951 as Ike Vallon (uncredited)
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Tomahawk 5th February 1951 as Smith (uncredited)
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High Tide 13th September 1947 as Inspector O'Haffey
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Sister Kenny 10th October 1946 as New York Reporter (uncredited)
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Arizona 25th December 1940 as Grant Oury
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Big City 3rd September 1937 as Fred Hawkins
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'G' Men 4th May 1935 as Eddie Buchanan
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Shopworn 25th March 1932 as David Livingston
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Graft 21st September 1931 as Dustin Hotchkiss
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Framed 16th March 1930 as Jimmy McArthur
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Alibi 20th April 1929 as Danny McGann
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Adam-12 21st September 1968 as Billy Heckman
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Bronco 23rd September 1958 as Judge Claymore
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Maverick 22nd September 1957 as Ben Granville
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Climax! 7th October 1954 as Fred Warren