Regis Toomey
Acting • Born 1898-08-13 – Died 1991-10-12
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.
Filmography
242 credits
The Big Sleep
Movie • 1946
Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Movie • 1961
Dr. Jamieson
His Girl Friday
Movie • 1940
Sanders
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
Det. Sgt. Gillespie
Guys and Dolls
Movie • 1955
Arvide Abernathy
Other Men's Women
Movie • 1931
Jack Kulper
Cry Danger
Movie • 1951
Gus Cobb
Meet John Doe
Movie • 1941
Bert Hansen
The Devil's Henchmen
Movie • 1949
Tip Banning
Main Street to Broadway
Movie • 1953
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
The Thirteenth Hour
Movie • 1947
Don Parker
Follow the Boys
Movie • 1944
Dr. Henderson
Cover Me Babe
Movie • 1970
Michael Atterbury
Hidden Power
Movie • 1939
Mayton
Trapped in the Sky
Movie • 1939
Lt. Gary
The Guilty
Movie • 1947
Detective Heller
Arizona
Movie • 1940
Grant Oury
Alibi
Movie • 1929
Danny McGann
Framed
Movie • 1930
Jimmy McArthur
Island in the Sky
Movie • 1953
Sergeant Harper
Strange Illusion
Movie • 1945
Dr. Vincent
Beyond the Forest
Movie • 1949
Sorren
One Frightened Night
Movie • 1935
Tom Dean
The People Against O'Hara
Movie • 1951
Fred Colton, Police Sound Man
Mysterious Intruder
Movie • 1946
James Summers
Murder by the Clock
Movie • 1931
Office Cassidy
Station West
Movie • 1948
Jim Goddard
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Movie • 1961
Bill Baird
The Human Jungle
Movie • 1954
Bob Geddes
Warlock
Movie • 1959
Skinner
The Boy with Green Hair
Movie • 1948
Mr. Davis
Phantom Lady
Movie • 1944
Detective
Betrayal from the East
Movie • 1945
Agent Posing as 'Sgt. Jimmy Scott'
My Six Convicts
Movie • 1952
Dr. Gordon
High Tide
Movie • 1947
Inspector O'Haffey
She Had to Say Yes
Movie • 1933
Tommy Nelson
The Wheel of Life
Movie • 1929
Lt. MacLaren
The Phantom Creeps
Movie • 1939
Lt. Jim Daly
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Fitzhugh Lee
Man's Favorite Sport?
Movie • 1964
Bagley
The Last Sunset
Movie • 1961
Milton Wing
Mighty Joe Young
Movie • 1949
John Young
Dive Bomber
Movie • 1941
Tim Griffin
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Movie • 1948
Police Inspector Clint Judd
The High and the Mighty
Movie • 1954
Tim Garfield
The Bishop's Wife
Movie • 1947
Mr. Miller
Tennessee Johnson
Movie • 1942
Blackstone McDaniel
Undercover Girl
Movie • 1950
Hank Miller
Big City
Movie • 1937
Fred Hawkins
The Carey Treatment
Movie • 1972
Sanderson the Pathologist
North West Mounted Police
Movie • 1940
Constable Jerry Moore
Dakota Incident
Movie • 1956
Minstrel
Take the High Ground!
Movie • 1953
Chaplain (uncredited)
Great Day in the Morning
Movie • 1956
Father Murphy
Under Eighteen
Movie • 1932
Jimmie Slocum
The Doughgirls
Movie • 1944
Timothy Walsh
Thunder Afloat
Movie • 1939
Ives
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Lt. Cmdr. Clark
Dark Mountain
Movie • 1944
Steve Downey
Shopworn
Movie • 1932
David Livingston
I Was Framed
Movie • 1942
Bob Leeds
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie • 1953
General Ned Prager
Drums Across the River
Movie • 1954
Sheriff Jim Beal
Come to the Stable
Movie • 1949
Monsignor Talbot
The Crowd Roars
Movie • 1932
Dick Wilbur
Raiders of Ghost City
Movie • 1944
Capt. Clay Randolph [Chs. 1-6]
Curfew Breakers
Movie • 1957
Coach Bettger
When the Lights Go On Again
Movie • 1944
Bill Regan
'Til We Meet Again
Movie • 1940
Freddy
The Light of Western Stars
Movie • 1930
Bob Drexell
The Penal Code
Movie • 1932
Robert Palmer
Scandal Sheet
Movie • 1931
Regan
Laughing at Life
Movie • 1933
Pat Collins / Mc Hale
They Never Come Back
Movie • 1932
Jimmy Nolan
Murder in the Blue Room
Movie • 1944
Inspector McDonald
Skull and Crown
Movie • 1935
Bob Franklin, alias Rocky Morgan
A Strange Adventure
Movie • 1932
Detective-Sergeant Mitchell
Graft
Movie • 1931
Dustin Hotchkiss
Shadows of the Orient
Movie • 1935
Inspector Bob Baxter
Child of Divorce
Movie • 1946
Ray Carter
The Mysterious Miss X
Movie • 1939
Jack Webster
Joy Ride
Movie • 1958
Miles Renny
The Nurse's Secret
Movie • 1941
Inspector Tom Patten
The Nebraskan
Movie • 1953
Col. Markham
Shadow of Doubt
Movie • 1935
Reed Ryan
Picture Brides
Movie • 1934
Dave Hart
Bulldog Edition
Movie • 1936
Jim Hardy
Frenchie
Movie • 1950
Carter
Song of the Open Road
Movie • 1944
Connors
Big Time Or Bust
Movie • 1933
Jimmie Kane
Bars of Hate
Movie • 1935
Ted Clark
Great God Gold
Movie • 1935
Phil Stuart
Bullet Scars
Movie • 1942
Dr. Steven Bishop
Top Gun
Movie • 1955
Jim O'Hara
Three for Jamie Dawn
Movie • 1956
Murph
Indianapolis Speedway
Movie • 1939
Dick Wilbur
Dynamite Pass
Movie • 1950
Dan Madden
Sing Boy Sing
Movie • 1958
Rev. Easton
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Movie • 1943
Capt. Ralph Carson
24 Hours
Movie • 1931
Tony Bruzzi
Good Intentions
Movie • 1930
Richard Holt
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Paddy O'Rourke
Gunn
Movie • 1967
The Bishop
Magic Town
Movie • 1947
Ed Weaver
The Finger Points
Movie • 1931
Charlie 'Breezy' Russell
Finn and Hattie
Movie • 1931
Henry Collins
Street of Chance
Movie • 1930
'Babe' Marsden
State Trooper
Movie • 1933
Michael Rolph
Law of the Tropics
Movie • 1941
Tom Marshall
Navy Bound
Movie • 1951
Capt. Charles Danning
Raw Deal
Movie • 1948
(uncredited)
She Had to Choose
Movie • 1934
Jack Berry
Shadow of the Law
Movie • 1930
Tom Owens
Illegal Traffic
Movie • 1938
Windy
Red Morning
Movie • 1934
John Hastings
Midnight Taxi
Movie • 1937
Hilton
Back in Circulation
Movie • 1937
Buck
Her Sister's Secret
Movie • 1946
Bill Gordon
The Battle at Apache Pass
Movie • 1952
Dr. Carter
Illusion
Movie • 1929
Eric
The Invisible Menace
Movie • 1938
Lt. Matthews
Northwest Passage
Movie • 1940
Webster
Crossroads - U.S.A.
Movie • 1952
Bill Marshall
'G' Men
Movie • 1935
Eddie Buchanan
No Time at All
Movie • 1958
Joe Donaldson
Pirates of the Skies
Movie • 1939
Blind Alibi
Movie • 1938
Doctor Wilson - Veterinarian
Show Boat
Movie • 1951
Sheriff Ike Vallon (uncredited)
Wings of the Navy
Movie • 1939
First Flight Instructor
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie • 1939
Tom - in Coffee Shop (uncredited)
The Lady Escapes
Movie • 1937
American reporter (uncredited)
March On, Marines
Movie • 1940
Drill Sergeant
The Phantom of Hollywood
Movie • 1974
Joe
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
New York Reporter (uncredited)
The Hangman
Movie • 1959
Soldier at Fort
The Forest Rangers
Movie • 1942
Frank Hatfield
A Man from Wyoming
Movie • 1930
Jersey
Guns of the Timberland
Movie • 1960
Sheriff Taylor
Society Smugglers
Movie • 1939
Johnny Beebe
Reaching from Heaven
Movie • 1948
Pastor
Street of Missing Men
Movie • 1939
Jim Parker
Redhead
Movie • 1934
Scoop
The Night of the Grizzly
Movie • 1966
Cotton Benson
A Shot in the Dark
Movie • 1941
William Ryder
Rich People
Movie • 1929
Jef MacLean
Just for You
Movie • 1952
Mr. Hodges
You're in the Army Now
Movie • 1941
Captain Joe Radcliffe
Murder on the Blackboard
Movie • 1934
Detective Smiley North
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Movie • 1950
Reporter (uncredited)
My Pal Gus
Movie • 1952
Farley Norris
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Movie • 1941
Wallace
Evil Town
Movie • 1987
Doc Hooper
Dr. Shagetz
Movie • 1975
Doc Hooper
Kick In
Movie • 1931
Chick Hewes
Manhattan Moon
Movie • 1935
Eddie
Again Pioneers
Movie • 1950
Dave Harley
Johnny Shiloh
Movie • 1965
Mr. Clem
Son of Belle Starr
Movie • 1953
Tom Wren
Submarine D-1
Movie • 1937
Tom Callan
Smashing the Spy Ring
Movie • 1938
Ted Hall
New York Town
Movie • 1941
Jim Martin (uncredited)
Follow That Woman
Movie • 1945
Barney Manners
How to Break 90 #5: Impact
Movie • 1933
Himself
It Happens Every Thursday
Movie • 1953
Mayor Hull
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Movie • 1934
Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
Movie • 1955
Mike Farrell
The Errand Boy
Movie • 1961
Studio Exec with the Baron
Reaching for the Sun
Movie • 1941
Intern
The Big Fix
Movie • 1947
Lt. Brenner
The Backbone of America
Movie • 1953
Bill Carmody
The Tall Target
Movie • 1951
Insp. Tim Reilly (uncredited)
The Devil and Miss Jones
Movie • 1941
1st Policeman
Soldiers of the Storm
Movie • 1933
Brad Allerton
Touchdown!
Movie • 1931
Tom Hussey
The Phantom Creeps
Movie • 1949
Lt. Jim Daley
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Burlesque Stagehand
Change of Habit
Movie • 1969
Father Gibbons
The Midnight Patrol
Movie • 1932
John Martin
Crazy That Way
Movie • 1930
Robert Metcalf
Tomahawk
Movie • 1951
Smith (uncredited)
Hunted Men
Movie • 1938
Donovan
The Hangman
Movie • 1959
Orderly (uncredited)
What's Your Racket
Movie • 1934
Bert Miller
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Dr. Ben Berkhart
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Detective Lester Hart
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Judge Thomas Otto
Green Acres
TV • 1965
December Bride
TV • 1954
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Calvin Betts
Route 66
TV • 1960
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Doc Stuart
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Sam Crane
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Jimmy
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV • 1964
George Penfield
Going My Way
TV • 1962
Rawhide
TV • 1959
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Pete Marlowe
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Joseph Denton
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Ed Bartlett
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Lt. Dennis McGough
Climax!
TV • 1954
Fred Warren
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Bronco
TV • 1958
Judge Claymore
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Navy Log
TV • 1955
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Lenny the Bartender
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
John Peel
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Will Jenkins
The Legend of Jesse James
TV • 1965
Defense Attorney Reed
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Arthur Wheeler
Shannon
TV • 1961
Bill Cochran
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Dr. Harry Randolph
Hey Mulligan
TV • 1954
Joe Mulligan
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Everett Strawn
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Sam Streeter
Maverick
TV • 1957
Ben Granville
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Henry Herman
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Father Middleton
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
George Kent
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mr. McCarthy
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
John Howell
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Billy Heckman
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Colonel Hawks
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Babe Bricker
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sheriff Barnes
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Lt. Manny Waldo
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Colonel
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Police Lt. Manny Waldo
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Andy Grant
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Regis Toomey
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Mr. Hunter
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Pat Evans
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Murdoch