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

Warlock

19596.8

His Girl Friday

19407.4

The High and the Mighty

19545.9

Guys and Dolls

19556.6

Mighty Joe Young

19496.4

They Died with Their Boots On

19416.7

The Bishop's Wife

19477.1

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

19615.7

Union Pacific

19396.7

Show Boat

19516.2

Meet John Doe

19417.3

Magic Town

19476.7

'G' Men

19356.6

The Night of the Grizzly

19665.9

Island in the Sky

19536.2

The Carey Treatment

19726.0

The Hangman

19596.5

The Last Sunset

19616.8

Joy Ride

19587.5

Raw Deal

19486.7

Shopworn

19326.8

The Phantom Creeps

19394.5

Great Day in the Morning

19566.0

Man's Favorite Sport?

19647.0

Tomahawk

19517.0

North West Mounted Police

19406.4

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

19764.3

Manhattan Moon

19359.0

Phantom Lady

19447.0

Northwest Passage

19406.6

Song of the Open Road

19448.0

The People Against O'Hara

19515.8

Sister Kenny

19466.9

The Errand Boy

19616.2

Arizona

19406.5

The Battle at Apache Pass

19526.6

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

19396.1

Dive Bomber

19416.3

Station West

19486.4

Change of Habit

19695.4

Undercover Girl

19505.5

Laughing at Life

19337.3

Follow the Boys

19445.7

Her Sister's Secret

19467.2

The Devil and Miss Jones

19417.7

Crossroads - U.S.A.

1952

Drums Across the River

19545.8

The Boy with Green Hair

19486.2

Street of Missing Men

19398.0

The Forest Rangers

19429.0

Destroyer

19436.8

Frenchie

19506.0

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

19485.6

Cry Danger

19516.7

The Tall Target

19516.9

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

19436.7

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

19507.0

The Thirteenth Hour

19476.0

Guns of the Timberland

19606.2

The Devil's Henchmen

19497.5

Take the High Ground!

19536.2

Other Men's Women

19315.7

The Nurse's Secret

19415.6

Murder on the Blackboard

19346.4

Beyond the Forest

19496.7

Big City

19377.7

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

19616.4

Main Street to Broadway

19537.3

Indianapolis Speedway

19395.6

The Phantom of Hollywood

19745.5

Raiders of Ghost City

19447.0

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

19795.0

Cover Me Babe

19704.7

Never Wave at a WAC

19535.0

Come to the Stable

19496.7

Reaching from Heaven

19488.0

Graft

19315.0

Pirates of the Skies

19399.0

Dark Mountain

19445.3

Law of the Tropics

19417.3

Dakota Incident

19566.5

The Backbone of America

1953

Reckless Roads

19358.0

Crazy That Way

193010.0

Shadow of the Law

19306.7

Gunn

19675.6

Wings of the Navy

19396.2

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

Evil Town

19873.8

Just for You

19525.4

Bullet Scars

19426.5

No Time at All

19588.0

The Nebraskan

19533.8

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

19347.3

Scandal Sheet

193110.0

Under Eighteen

19326.3

Blind Alibi

19386.2

24 Hours

19316.3

'Til We Meet Again

19406.4

Top Gun

19556.6

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

19416.1

The Human Jungle

19545.6

Back in Circulation

19376.5

One Frightened Night

19355.6

The Doughgirls

19447.6

Shadows of the Orient

19356.0

It Happens Every Thursday

19536.3

Bulldog Edition

19364.3

Strange Illusion

19455.6

When the Lights Go On Again

19446.0

Three for Jamie Dawn

19566.5

Midnight Taxi

19376.2

I Was Framed

19425.0

Mysterious Intruder

19465.9

Child of Divorce

19466.5

Murder in the Blue Room

19445.7

The Phantom Creeps

19494.2

Submarine D-1

19375.0

You're in the Army Now

19414.4

What's Your Racket

19348.0

Reaching for the Sun

19417.3

Redhead

19348.0

Sing Boy Sing

19585.0

Follow That Woman

19456.5

The Light of Western Stars

19305.2

Son of Belle Starr

19537.0

Picture Brides

19345.1

New York Town

19418.5

My Six Convicts

19526.5

Johnny Shiloh

19657.5

Curfew Breakers

19575.5

The Crowd Roars

19326.1

Trapped in the Sky

19398.0

Big Time Or Bust

19335.7

Betrayal from the East

19456.4

State Trooper

19338.0

Illusion

19299.0

Bars of Hate

19357.0

The Guilty

19475.5

My Pal Gus

19528.0

Hunted Men

19385.7

The Invisible Menace

19384.3

Skull and Crown

19355.8

March On, Marines

19403.8

Smashing the Spy Ring

19386.7

They Never Come Back

19326.3

Street of Chance

19306.8

The Finger Points

19316.4

High Tide

19476.0

Dr. Shagetz

1975

Murder by the Clock

19316.4

The Midnight Patrol

193210.0

Society Smugglers

19396.2

She Had to Choose

19346.0

Illegal Traffic

19386.6

Dynamite Pass

19506.1

Red Morning

19345.7

She Had to Say Yes

19335.7

Good Intentions

19309.0

The Mysterious Miss X

19395.4

Hidden Power

193910.0

Thunder Afloat

19396.1

The Lady Escapes

19377.0

Navy Bound

19517.5

Finn and Hattie

19316.3

A Strange Adventure

19326.5

Shadow of Doubt

19356.6

The Wheel of Life

19299.0

Again Pioneers

19505.7

Framed

19305.3

A Shot in the Dark

19415.7

Touchdown!

19318.0

Alibi

19296.0

Rich People

19298.0

A Man from Wyoming

19308.0

The Big Fix

19478.0

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good

1955

Soldiers of the Storm

19337.0

Kick In

19317.5

How to Break 90 #5: Impact

19338.0

Great God Gold

19355.5

The Penal Code

19326.7