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Regis Toomey

Regis Toomey
Regis Toomey
Born: Aug 13, 1898 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died: Oct 12, 1991 in Woodland Hills, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '30s-'60s
Major Genres: Drama, Crime
Career Highlights: Spellbound, The Red Head, Her Sister's Secret
First Major Screen Credit: Illusion (1929)
13 Videos for Regis Toomey
Man's Favorite Sport? (1963) Spellbound (1945) Adventures of the Flying Cadets [Serial] (1943)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) Strange Illusion (1945) Meet John Doe (1941)
Show Boat (1951) Follow the Boys (1944) His Girl Friday (1940)
The Boy With Green Hair (1948) Raiders of Ghost City [Serial] (1944) The Phantom Creeps [Serial] (1939)
The Big Sleep (1946)
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Biography:

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.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.