- Born Name: John Regis Toomey
- Birthday: 1898-08-13 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Kathryn Scott (1925 – 1981)
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- Medium: actor
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Regis Toomey, 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.[citation needed] 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 CBSs 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, Burkes 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 Youre in the Army Now, in which he and Jane Wyman had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds. Selected filmographyOther Mens Women (1930)Street of Chance (1930)Murder by the Clock (1931)Graft (1931)Under 18 (1931)24 Hours (1931)Shopworn (1932)Murder on the Blackboard (1934)G Men (1935)The Invisible Menace (1938)The Phantom Creeps (1939 serial)Union Pacific (1939)Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) uncreditedThunder Afloat (1939)His Girl Friday (1940)Northwest Passage (1940)Til We Meet Again (1940)North West Mounted Police (1940)Arizona (1940)Meet John Doe (1941)Dive Bomber (1941)They Died with Their Boots On (1941)Youre in the Army Now (1941)Tennessee Johnson (1942)Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943 serial)Destroyer (1943)Phantom Lady (1944)Follow the Boys (1944)Song of the Open Road (1944)Spellbound (1945)Follow That Woman (1945)The Big Sleep (1946)The Guilty (1947)The Bishops Wife (1947)Raw Deal (1948)Station West (1948)The Boy with Green Hair (1948)Mighty Joe Young (1949)Come to the Stable (1949)The Devils Henchman (1949)Beyond the Forest (1949)Cry Danger (1951)Show Boat (1951)My Pal Gus (1952)Island in the Sky (1953)The High and the Mighty (1954)Guys and Dolls (1955)The Last Sunset (1961)Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)Mans Favorite Sport? (1964)Gunn (1967)Change of Habit (1969)External linksBiography portalRegis Toomey at the Internet Movie DatabaseRegis Toomey at the TCM Movie DatabaseRegis Toomey at Find a GravePersondataNameToomey, RegisAlternative namesToomey, John RegisShort descriptionactorDate of birthAugust 13, 1898Place of birthPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.Date of deathOctober 12, 1991Place of deathLos Angeles, California, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_ToomeyCategories: 1898 births | 1991 deaths | American film actors | Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | University of Pittsburgh alumniHidden categories: Articles with hCards | All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements from February 2009Personal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadView sourceView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschEspañolFrançais This page was last modified on 27 November 2010 at 06:21.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Regis_Toomey, wgTitle: Regis Toomey, wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 2875499, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 399091360, wgCategories: [Articles with hCards, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2009, 1898 births, 1991 deaths, American film actors, Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh alumni], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:3:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();