Regis Toomey

Known for ActingBorn 1898-08-13Died 1991-10-12Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

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Hidden Power

The Midnight Patrol

Scandal Sheet

Crazy That Way

The Forest Rangers

Pirates of the Skies

Manhattan Moon

Good Intentions

The Wheel of Life

Illusion

New York Town

No Time at All

My Pal Gus

Reaching from Heaven

The Big Fix

Song of the Open Road

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Trapped in the Sky

Street of Missing Men

Reckless Roads

Redhead

What's Your Racket

State Trooper

How to Break 90 #5: Impact

Touchdown!

A Man from Wyoming

Rich People

Perry Mason

The Time Tunnel

Playhouse 90

Ghost Story

Johnny Shiloh

The Devil and Miss Jones

Joy Ride

The Big Sleep

The Doughgirls

Big City

Navy Bound

The Devil's Henchmen

Main Street to Broadway

Spellbound

Green Acres

His Girl Friday

Rawhide

Kick In

Adam-12

Law of the Tropics

Reaching for the Sun