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Mr. Madden appeared in numerous equity summer stock and off-broadway productions until he nearly starved in the 70s. He also appeared in TV and print commercials for a wide-range of forgotten products. While he prefers to always think of himself as 39, his character range is closer to 50 to 70 (and getting older by the minute). When he's not acting, which is is seldom, he writes books. Among his latest titles are a comedy murder-mystery thriller "King of the Condo," based on his own exasperating experience as President of a Florida condo, which he wrote to get even with residents who tormented him for two whole years. He also is the author of "Spin Man," his memoir based on his years as a flayboyant publicist. During his boring middle years, Mr. Madden served a prison term as Vice President, Assistant to the Present of NBC, who was then TV wunderkind Fred Silverman. After a succession of nervous breakdowns and a mid-life crisis, he left NBC and with his beautiful, native-Italian wife, Angela, who always upstages him, and they started a public relations firm together called TransMedia Group, based in Boca Raton, Florida. One of their first clients was New York's "How am I doing?" Mayor Ed Koch, who he teamed up with "Mr. T" in an award-winning PR campaign for fair housing. After nearly 7500 bravura performances in his boardroom, Mr. Madden sold his firm and he and Angela scurried back to their Manhattan roots and to his first love, the theater, to which he goes whenever he can wangle tickets. A graduate of Temple University and the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, he studied acting at the famous Herbert Berghoff Academy in Greenwhich Village and under the late Bill Hickey, who advised Mr. Madden to try law school. The Maddens live part-time in NYC at the Essex House and in the winter in Palm Beach.

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