Regis Toomey

Regis Toomey
Born: Aug 13, 1898
Pittsburgh, PA
Career: 1922-1987
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Crime
Western
Biography by Hal Erickson
Taking up dramatics while attending the University of Pittsburgh, Regis Toomey extended this interest into a profitable career as a stock and Broadway actor. He specialized in singing roles until falling victim to acute laryngitis while touring England in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly. In 1929, Toomey made his talking-picture bow in Alibi, where his long, drawn-out climactic death scene attracted both praise and damnation; he'd later claim that, thanks to the maudlin nature of this scene, producers were careful to kill him off in the first or second reel in his subsequent films. Only moderately successful as a leading man, Toomey was far busier once he removed his toupee and became a character actor. A lifelong pal of actor Dick Powell, Regis Toomey was cast in prominent recurring roles in such Powell-created TV series of the 1950s and 1960s as Richard Diamond, Dante's Inferno, and Burke's Law.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Evil Town 1987 Actor [Starring]
C.H.O.M.P.S. 1979 Actor [Starring]
God Bless Dr. Shagetz 1977 Actor [Starring]
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood 1976 Actor [Starring]
The Phantom of Hollywood 1974 Actor [Starring]
Adam-12: A Fool and His Money 1973 Actor [Starring]
The Carey Treatment 1972 Actor [Starring]
The F.B.I.: End of a Nightmare 1972 Actor [Starring]
Cover Me Babe 1970 Actor [Starring]
Change of Habit 1969 Actor [Starring]
Petticoat Junction: The Christening 1969 Actor [Starring]
Petticoat Junction: Birthplace of a Future President 1968 Actor [Starring]
Petticoat Junction: Only a Husband 1968 Actor [Starring]
Petticoat Junction: The Lady Doctor 1968 Actor [Starring]
Petticoat Junction: The Singing Sweethearts 1968 Actor [Starring]
Petticoat Junction: The Strange Case of Joseph P. Carson 1968 Actor [Starring]
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