Victor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.In July 1942 Mature attempted to enlist in the U.S. Navy but was rejected for color blindness. He enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard after taking a different eye test the same day. He was assigned to the USCGC Storis (WMEC-38), which was doing Greenland patrol work. After 14 months aboard the Storis, Mature was promoted to the rate of Chief Boatswains Mate. In 1944 he did a series of War Bond tours and acted in morale shows. He assisted Coast Guard recruiting efforts by being a featured player in the musical revue Tars and Spars which opened in Miami, Florida in April of 1944 and toured the United States for the next year. In May 1945 Mature was reassigned to the Coast Guard manned troop transport USS Admiral H. T. Mayo (AP-125) which was involved in transferring troops to the Pacific Theater. Mature was honorably discharged from the Coast Guard in November 1945 and he resumed his acting career.Film careerAfter the war, Mature was cast by John Ford in My Darling Clementine, playing Doc Holliday opposite Henry Fondas Wyatt Earp. For the next decade, Mature settled into playing hard-boiled characters in a range of genres such as Westerns and Biblical films, such as The Robe (with Richard Burton and Jean Simmons) and its popular sequel, Demetrius and the Gladiators (with Susan Hayward). Mature also starred with Hedy Lamarr in Cecil B. DeMilles Bible epic, Samson and Delilah (1949) and as Horemheb in The Egyptian (1954) with Jean Simmons and Gene Tierney. He reportedly stated he was successful in Biblical epics because he could make with the holy look.He also starred with Esther Williams in Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) and, according to her autobiography, had a romantic relationship with her. After five years of retirement, he was lured back into acting by the opportunity to parody himself in After the Fox (1966), co-written by Neil Simon. In a similar vein in 1968 he played a giant, The Big Victor, in Head, a potpourri movie starring The Monkees. The character poked fun at both his screen image and, reportedly, RCA Victor who distributed Colgems Records, the Monkeess label. Mature enjoyed the script while admitting it made no sense to him, stating All I know is it makes me laugh.Mature was famously self-deprecatory about his acting skills. Once, after being rejected for membership in a country club because he was an actor, he cracked, Im not an actor — and Ive got sixty-four films to prove it! He was quoted in 1968 on his acting career Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.Victor Mature died of leukemia in 1999, at his Rancho Santa Fe, California home, at the age of 86. He was buried in the family plot at St. Michaels Cemetery in his hometown of Louisville.For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Victor Mature has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6780 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmes indisponível de Victor Mature

One Million B.C.

Tumak

Filme 1940

The Last Frontier

Jed Cooper

Filme 1955

Chief Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

Filme 1955

Kiss of Death

Nick Bianco

Filme 1947

I Wake Up Screaming

Frankie Christopher (Botticelli)

Filme 1941

The Egyptian

Horemheb

Filme 1954

The Las Vegas Story

Lt. Dave Andrews

Filme 1952

The Robe

Demetrius

Filme 1953

The Shanghai Gesture

Doctor Omar

Filme 1941

Demetrius and the Gladiators

Demetrius

Filme 1954

Footlight Serenade

Tommy Lundy

Filme 1942

Moss Rose

Michael Drego

Filme 1947

The Long Haul

Harry Miller

Filme 1957

Escort West

Ben Lassiter

Filme 1959

Head

The Big Victor

Filme 1968

Safari

Ken Duffield

Filme 1956

After the Fox

Tony Powell

Filme 1966

The Glory Brigade

Lt. Sam Pryor

Filme 1953

The Sharkfighters

Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves

Filme 1956

Easy Living

Pete Wilson

Filme 1949

Affair with a Stranger

Bill Blakeley

Filme 1953

Seven Days' Leave

Johnny Grey

Filme 1942

Every Little Crook and Nanny

Carmine Ganucci

Filme 1972

My Gal Sal

Paul Dresser

Filme 1942

House of Dreams

Narrator (voice)

Filme 1951

Wabash Avenue

Andy Clark

Filme 1950

Uncertain Verification

(archive footage)

Filme 1965

Captain Caution

Daniel 'Dan' Marvin

Filme 1940

Fury at Furnace Creek

Cash Blackwell / Tex Cameron

Filme 1948

China Doll

Capt. Cliff Brandon

Filme 1958

Hannibal

Hannibal

Filme 1959

The Bandit Of Zhobe

Kasmin Khan

Filme 1959

Timbuktu

Mike Conway

Filme 1959

The Tartars

Oleg

Filme 1961

The Housekeeper's Daughter

Lefty

Filme 1939

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1986

Red, Hot and Blue

Danny James

Filme 1949

Tank Force!

Sgt. David Thatcher

Filme 1958

Song of the Islands

Jefferson Harper

Filme 1942

Something for the Birds

Steve Bennett

Filme 1952

Samson and Delilah

Manoah

Filme 1984

The Veils of Bagdad

Antar

Filme 1953

No, No, Nanette

William Trainor

Filme 1940

Show-Business at War

Self

Filme 1943

Mi Marilyn

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1975

Série de TV indisponível de Victor Mature

Sphinx – Secrets of the History

Hanibal

Tv 1994