Regis Toomey
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| Born |
John Francis Regis Toomey August 13, 1898 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 12, 1991 (aged 93) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | Stage, film, and television actor |
| Years active | 1929–1987 |
| Spouse(s) | Kathryn Scott Toomey (1925–1981) (her death) |
John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 – October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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, he appeared in his first films, initially starting out as a leading man, but finding 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 the 1954–1955 television season, Toomey appeared as Joe Mulligan, a police officer in Los Angeles and the father of the Mickey Rooney character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived sitcom, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan.
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.
In 1956, Toomey was cast as the Reverend Arnold Grumm in the episode "Lifeline" of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. That same year, he appeared as a judge, with Chuck Connors as "Andy", in the third episode, "The Nevada Nightingale", of another anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial, which aired on NBC. Toomey thereafter appeared 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. Toomey appeared in a number of episodes of Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Lt. McGough.
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