Victor Mature actor
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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.
Tumak
Film 1940
Jed Cooper
Film 1955
Crazy Horse
Film 1955
Nick Bianco
Film 1947
Frankie Christopher (Botticelli)
Film 1941
Horemheb
Film 1954
Lt. Dave Andrews
Film 1952
Demetrius
Film 1953
Doctor Omar
Film 1941
Demetrius
Film 1954
Tommy Lundy
Film 1942
Michael Drego
Film 1947
Harry Miller
Film 1957
Ben Lassiter
Film 1959
The Big Victor
Film 1968
Ken Duffield
Film 1956
Tony Powell
Film 1966
Lt. Sam Pryor
Film 1953
Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves
Film 1956
Pete Wilson
Film 1949
Bill Blakeley
Film 1953
Johnny Grey
Film 1942
Carmine Ganucci
Film 1972
Paul Dresser
Film 1942
Narrator (voice)
Film 1951
Andy Clark
Film 1950
(archive footage)
Film 1965
Daniel 'Dan' Marvin
Film 1940
Cash Blackwell / Tex Cameron
Film 1948
Capt. Cliff Brandon
Film 1958
Hannibal
Film 1959
Kasmin Khan
Film 1959
Mike Conway
Film 1959
Oleg
Film 1961
Lefty
Film 1939
Self (archive footage)
Film 1986
Danny James
Film 1949
Sgt. David Thatcher
Film 1958
Jefferson Harper
Film 1942
Steve Bennett
Film 1952
Manoah
Film 1984
Antar
Film 1953
William Trainor
Film 1940
Self
Film 1943
Self (archive footage)
Film 1975
Hanibal
Tv 1994
