Regis Toomey

Acting · 1.5 popularity

Age

127

Movies

184

Born: August 13, 1898 – October 12, 1991
From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

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.

Works

184 films

The Big Sleep

19467.6

Spellbound

19457.4

His Girl Friday

19407.4

Warlock

19596.8

Guys and Dolls

19556.6

Mighty Joe Young

19496.4

They Died with Their Boots On

19416.7

The High and the Mighty

19545.9

The Bishop's Wife

19477.1

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

19615.7

Union Pacific

19396.7

Meet John Doe

19417.3

Magic Town

19476.7

Show Boat

19516.2

Man's Favorite Sport?

19647.0

Joy Ride

19587.5

Raw Deal

19486.7

'G' Men

19356.6

North West Mounted Police

19406.4

The Last Sunset

19616.8

Tomahawk

19517.0

Dive Bomber

19416.3

The Errand Boy

19616.2

Arizona

19406.5

Manhattan Moon

19359.0

The Hangman

19596.5

The Carey Treatment

19726.0

Cry Danger

19516.7

The Battle at Apache Pass

19526.6

The Night of the Grizzly

19665.9

The Phantom Creeps

19394.5

Phantom Lady

19447.0

Frenchie

19506.0

Song of the Open Road

19448.0

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

19764.3

Shopworn

19326.8

The Forest Rangers

19429.0

Northwest Passage

19406.6

Crossroads - U.S.A.

1952

The People Against O'Hara

19515.8

The Devil and Miss Jones

19417.7

Great Day in the Morning

19566.0

Island in the Sky

19536.2

Sister Kenny

19466.9

The Thirteenth Hour

19476.0

Drums Across the River

19545.8

Change of Habit

19695.4

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

19396.1

Station West

19486.4

The Boy with Green Hair

19486.2

Beyond the Forest

19496.7

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

19436.7

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

19485.6

Follow the Boys

19445.7

Undercover Girl

19505.5

Evil Town

19873.8

Her Sister's Secret

19467.2

Big City

19377.7

Street of Missing Men

19398.0

The Tall Target

19516.9

Take the High Ground!

19536.2

Guns of the Timberland

19606.2

Scandal Sheet

193110.0

Indianapolis Speedway

19395.6

Murder on the Blackboard

19346.4

Midnight Taxi

19376.2

What's Your Racket

19348.0

New York Town

19418.5

Destroyer

19436.8

Reaching from Heaven

19488.0

Law of the Tropics

19417.3

Laughing at Life

19337.3

Other Men's Women

19315.7

The Devil's Henchmen

19497.5

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

19507.0

Come to the Stable

19496.7

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

19347.3

Under Eighteen

19326.3

Never Wave at a WAC

19535.0

'Til We Meet Again

19406.4

The Phantom of Hollywood

19745.5

Bulldog Edition

19364.3

Society Smugglers

19396.2

C.H.O.M.P.S.

19795.0

Thunder Afloat

19396.1

The Nurse's Secret

19415.6

Gunn

19675.6

Shadow of the Law

19306.7

The Backbone of America

1953

Top Gun

19556.6

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

19616.4

Betrayal from the East

19456.4

My Six Convicts

19526.5

Follow That Woman

19456.5

Main Street to Broadway

19537.3

Cover Me Babe

19704.7

I Was Framed

19425.0

The Doughgirls

19447.6

The Finger Points

19316.4

Pirates of the Skies

19399.0

Dark Mountain

19445.3

Strange Illusion

19455.6

Mysterious Intruder

19465.9

Dakota Incident

19566.5

Just for You

19525.4

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

A Man from Wyoming

19308.0

The Guilty

19475.5

Son of Belle Starr

19537.0

Graft

19315.0

Wings of the Navy

19396.2

Three for Jamie Dawn

19566.5

Reckless Roads

19358.0

Bars of Hate

19357.0

The Nebraskan

19533.8

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

19416.1

Blind Alibi

19386.2

Johnny Shiloh

19657.5

Raiders of Ghost City

19447.0

It Happens Every Thursday

19536.3

Redhead

19348.0

Hunted Men

19385.7

She Had to Choose

19346.0

When the Lights Go On Again

19446.0

Sing Boy Sing

19585.0

The Midnight Patrol

193210.0

The Crowd Roars

19326.1

The Phantom Creeps

19494.2

You're in the Army Now

19414.4

24 Hours

19316.3

The Human Jungle

19545.6

Bullet Scars

19426.5

The Lady Escapes

19377.0

Picture Brides

19345.1

Good Intentions

19309.0

March On, Marines

19403.8

Back in Circulation

19376.5

Dr. Shagetz

1975

Reaching for the Sun

19417.3

Again Pioneers

19505.7

Finn and Hattie

19316.3

Crazy That Way

193010.0

My Pal Gus

19528.0

Child of Divorce

19466.5

Dynamite Pass

19506.1

Submarine D-1

19375.0

Big Time Or Bust

19335.7

Smashing the Spy Ring

19386.7

No Time at All

19588.0

Murder in the Blue Room

19445.7

State Trooper

19338.0

Red Morning

19345.7

Shadows of the Orient

19356.0

They Never Come Back

19326.3

One Frightened Night

19355.6

The Invisible Menace

19384.3

Framed

19305.3

The Mysterious Miss X

19395.4

Shadow of Doubt

19356.6

High Tide

19476.0

How to Break 90 #5: Impact

19338.0

Illusion

19299.0

Murder by the Clock

19316.4

Trapped in the Sky

19398.0

Rich People

19298.0

Illegal Traffic

19386.6

Hidden Power

193910.0

The Light of Western Stars

19305.2

Curfew Breakers

19575.5

Skull and Crown

19355.8

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good

1955

She Had to Say Yes

19335.7

Alibi

19296.0

The Penal Code

19326.7

Navy Bound

19517.5

A Shot in the Dark

19415.7

Kick In

19317.5

Street of Chance

19306.8

Touchdown!

19318.0

The Wheel of Life

19299.0

A Strange Adventure

19326.5

Soldiers of the Storm

19337.0

The Big Fix

19478.0

Great God Gold

19355.5