Regis Toomey
Biography
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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.
Acting (179 movies)
The Big Sleep
1946
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
His Girl Friday
1940
Spellbound
1945
Guys and Dolls
1955
Other Men's Women
1931
Cry Danger
1951
Meet John Doe
1941
The Devil's Henchmen
1949
Main Street to Broadway
1953
The Thirteenth Hour
1947
Follow the Boys
1944
Cover Me Babe
1970
Hidden Power
1939
Trapped in the Sky
1939
The Guilty
1947
Arizona
1940
Alibi
1929
Framed
1930
Island in the Sky
1953
Strange Illusion
1945
Beyond the Forest
1949
One Frightened Night
1935
The People Against O'Hara
1951
Mysterious Intruder
1946
Murder by the Clock
1931
Station West
1948
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
The Human Jungle
1954
Warlock
1959
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
Phantom Lady
1944
Betrayal from the East
1945
My Six Convicts
1952
High Tide
1947
She Had to Say Yes
1933
The Wheel of Life
1929
The Phantom Creeps
1939
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964
The Last Sunset
1961
Mighty Joe Young
1949
Dive Bomber
1941
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
1948
The High and the Mighty
1954
The Bishop's Wife
1947
Tennessee Johnson
1942
Undercover Girl
1950
Big City
1937
The Carey Treatment
1972
North West Mounted Police
1940
Dakota Incident
1956
Take the High Ground!
1953
Great Day in the Morning
1956
Under Eighteen
1932
The Doughgirls
1944
Thunder Afloat
1939
Destroyer
1943
Dark Mountain
1944
Shopworn
1932
I Was Framed
1942
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
Drums Across the River
1954
Come to the Stable
1949
The Crowd Roars
1932
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
Curfew Breakers
1957
When the Lights Go On Again
1944
'Til We Meet Again
1940
The Light of Western Stars
1930
The Penal Code
1932
Scandal Sheet
1931
Laughing at Life
1933
They Never Come Back
1932
Murder in the Blue Room
1944
Skull and Crown
1935
A Strange Adventure
1932
Graft
1931
Shadows of the Orient
1935
Child of Divorce
1946
The Mysterious Miss X
1939
Joy Ride
1958
The Nurse's Secret
1941
The Nebraskan
1953
Shadow of Doubt
1935
Picture Brides
1934
Bulldog Edition
1936
Frenchie
1950
Song of the Open Road
1944
Big Time Or Bust
1933
Bars of Hate
1935
Great God Gold
1935
Bullet Scars
1942
Top Gun
1955
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
Dynamite Pass
1950
Sing Boy Sing
1958
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943
24 Hours
1931
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