Rock Madison
- Actor
![Connie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman". Arriving at her brother's last-known camp Connie and her companions find only a strange old guide, Varga. They are soon attacked by gigantic Snowmen but are not half as surprised as when Vargas reveals his secret origin and the plans he has for Connie.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjJmMzk0MTItMGZmNS00YmQzLThiYzAtMTVjNGFhNDVlNjFiXkEyXkFqcGdeQWxiaWFtb250._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,46,500,281_.jpg)
A hoax name! Made up by Jerry Warren as a cross between Rock Hudson and Guy Madison,
Warren originally intended to use it as a pseudonym for male lead
Tom Maruzzi in Man Beast (1956). However, to make the cast seem larger, Warren
turned around and included Maruzzi also at 3rd billing, though assigned
to the character he really played; made up a nonexistent film
character, "Lon Raynon" to justify keeping Rock Madison in the credits,
and later told interviewers that, while "Lon Raynon" was cut from the
film, "Madison" played the yeti. In fact, the yeti was only played by
others in the cast in rotation, and Warren's future wife, Brianne Murphy.
Later, Warren resurrected the Madison name for the star billing in
Creature of the Walking Dead (1965), though none of the advertising associates any named actors
(including Madison) with any of the characters. As that film was
essentially an edited Mexican feature, Warren could have conceivably
argued that Rock Madison here was just a pseudonym for one of the
Mexican actors, but there is no evidence he actually did so. Therefore,
Rock Madison becomes a name without a body, a true
non-person.