Donald Richard Madden (November 5, 1933 – January 22, 1983) was an American theater, television, and film actor known for his role as John Dickinson in the film 1776 (1972) and his portrayal of Hamlet onstage in New York.
Madden appeared with Colleen Dewhurst in the 1959 television adaptation of John Steinbeck's Burning Bright. He guest starred in the British TV spy series, Espionage in 1963. He had the recurring role of Bryan Cannon on the television series Dr. Kildare in 1966. He also appeared in the soap operasOne Life to Live and Another World. In 1972 he portrayed John Dickinson in 1776, his only feature film. His final TV appearance was as Mr. Brown in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi in 1980.
Madden died of lung cancer in Central Islip, New York in 1983, aged 49. He had been diagnosed with the disease during the run of his final Broadway show Trick in 1979.
