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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-08-13
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cast
The Big Sleep
1946
7.60
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
5.65
His Girl Friday
1940
7.40
Spellbound
1945
7.40
Guys and Dolls
1955
6.53
Other Men's Women
1931
5.50
Cry Danger
1951
6.60
Meet John Doe
1941
7.29
The Devil's Henchmen
1949
6.00
Main Street to Broadway
1953
6.50
The Thirteenth Hour
1947
5.79
Follow the Boys
1944
5.30
Cover Me Babe
1970
4.17
Hidden Power
1939
0.00
Trapped in the Sky
1939
0.00
The Guilty
1947
5.40
Arizona
1940
6.30
Alibi
1929
6.00
Framed
1930
5.00
Island in the Sky
1953
6.30
Strange Illusion
1945
5.40
Beyond the Forest
1949
6.68
One Frightened Night
1935
5.30
The People Against O'Hara
1951
5.70
Mysterious Intruder
1946
5.90
Murder by the Clock
1931
6.00
Station West
1948
6.10
The Human Jungle
1954
4.83
Warlock
1959
6.70
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
6.20
Phantom Lady
1944
7.00
Betrayal from the East
1945
5.80
My Six Convicts
1952
6.30
High Tide
1947
5.90
She Had to Say Yes
1933
5.22
The Wheel of Life
1929
0.00
The Phantom Creeps
1939
4.20
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
6.62
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964
6.90
The Last Sunset
1961
6.80
Mighty Joe Young
1949
6.37
Dive Bomber
1941
6.40
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
1948
5.50
The High and the Mighty
1954
5.90
The Bishop's Wife
1947
7.07
Tennessee Johnson
1942
6.10
Undercover Girl
1950
5.19
Big City
1937
7.40
The Carey Treatment
1972
5.90
North West Mounted Police
1940
6.35
Dakota Incident
1956
6.50
Take the High Ground!
1953
5.92
Great Day in the Morning
1956
5.90
Under Eighteen
1932
6.15
The Doughgirls
1944
7.00
Thunder Afloat
1939
5.90
Destroyer
1943
6.60
Dark Mountain
1944
4.90
Shopworn
1932
6.50
I Was Framed
1942
4.00
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
4.61
Drums Across the River
1954
5.60
Come to the Stable
1949
6.40
The Crowd Roars
1932
5.90
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
6.00
Curfew Breakers
1957
5.00
When the Lights Go On Again
1944
5.50
'Til We Meet Again
1940
6.20
The Light of Western Stars
1930
2.80
The Penal Code
1932
6.00
Scandal Sheet
1931
0.00
Laughing at Life
1933
6.00
They Never Come Back
1932
5.50
Murder in the Blue Room
1944
5.00
Skull and Crown
1935
4.30
A Strange Adventure
1932
5.00
Graft
1931
4.50
Shadows of the Orient
1935
4.75
Child of Divorce
1946
6.00
The Mysterious Miss X
1939
4.60
Joy Ride
1958
5.00
The Nurse's Secret
1941
5.00
The Nebraskan
1953
2.67
Shadow of Doubt
1935
6.20
Picture Brides
1934
4.50
Bulldog Edition
1936
2.33
Frenchie
1950
5.70
Song of the Open Road
1944
0.00
Big Time Or Bust
1933
3.50
Bars of Hate
1935
5.00
Great God Gold
1935
5.00
Bullet Scars
1942
6.20
Top Gun
1955
6.27
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956
5.00
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
5.00
Dynamite Pass
1950
5.90
Sing Boy Sing
1958
6.00
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943
6.50
24 Hours
1931
5.50
Good Intentions
1930
0.00
Union Pacific
1939
6.57
Gunn
1967
5.20
Magic Town
1947
6.70
The Finger Points
1931
5.80
Finn and Hattie
1931
5.30
Street of Chance
1930
6.60
State Trooper
1933
0.00
Law of the Tropics
1941
6.00
Navy Bound
1951
6.00
Raw Deal
1948
6.65
She Had to Choose
1934
5.00
Shadow of the Law
1930
6.40
Illegal Traffic
1938
6.50
Red Morning
1934
5.00
Midnight Taxi
1937
5.00
Back in Circulation
1937
5.30
Her Sister's Secret
1946
6.50
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
6.40
Illusion
1929
0.00
The Invisible Menace
1938
3.80
Northwest Passage
1940
6.50
Crossroads - U.S.A.
1952
0.00
'G' Men
1935
6.60
No Time at All
1958
0.00
Pirates of the Skies
1939
0.00
Blind Alibi
1938
5.80
Show Boat
1951
6.10
Wings of the Navy
1939
6.00
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
6.00
The Lady Escapes
1937
0.00
March On, Marines
1940
2.00
The Phantom of Hollywood
1974
5.10
Sister Kenny
1946
6.75
The Hangman
1959
6.30
The Forest Rangers
1942
0.00
A Man from Wyoming
1930
9.00
Guns of the Timberland
1960
6.10
Society Smugglers
1939
5.60
Reaching from Heaven
1948
0.00
Street of Missing Men
1939
9.00
Redhead
1934
6.00
The Night of the Grizzly
1966
5.80
A Shot in the Dark
1941
5.00
Rich People
1929
0.00
Just for You
1952
4.80
You're in the Army Now
1941
4.00
Murder on the Blackboard
1934
5.80
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950
6.00
My Pal Gus
1952
7.00
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
6.00
Evil Town
1987
3.80
Dr. Shagetz
1975
0.00
Kick In
1931
6.00
Manhattan Moon
1935
0.00
Again Pioneers
1950
3.50
Johnny Shiloh
1965
7.50
Son of Belle Starr
1953
0.00
Submarine D-1
1937
4.70
Smashing the Spy Ring
1938
0.00
New York Town
1941
10.00
Follow That Woman
1945
6.00
How to Break 90 #5: Impact
1933
0.00
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
6.20
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
6.00
The Errand Boy
1961
6.14
Reaching for the Sun
1941
6.00
The Big Fix
1947
0.00
The Backbone of America
1953
0.00
The Tall Target
1951
6.80
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
7.70
Soldiers of the Storm
1933
0.00
Touchdown!
1931
0.00
The Phantom Creeps
1949
3.80
Change of Habit
1969
5.30
The Midnight Patrol
1932
0.00
Crazy That Way
1930
0.00
Tomahawk
1951
6.90
Hunted Men
1938
6.00
The Hangman
1959
6.30