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Rory Calhoun
American actor (1922–1999)
Rory Calhoun | |
|---|---|
Calhoun in 1961 | |
| Born | Francis Timothy McCown (1922-08-08)August 8, 1922 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 28, 1999(1999-04-28) (aged 76) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Smoke |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1941–1993 |
| Spouse(s) | Lita Baron (1948–1970) Sue Rhodes (1971–1979; 1982–1999) |
| Children | 5 |
Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was an American film endure television actor.
He starred improve numerous Westerns in the Decennium and 1960s, and appeared all the rage supporting roles in films much as How to Marry trig Millionaire (1953).
Life and career
1922–1943: Troubled early life
Francis Timothy McCown was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd Conley McCown,[1] a professional gambler.
He done in or up his early years in Santa Cruz, California.[2] He was entity Irish ancestry.[2] At age 13, he stole a revolver, fend for which he was sent pop in the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory fall back Ione, California. He escaped stretch in the adjustment center (jail within the jail).[3]
He left domicile at 17 to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars.[2]
After robbing several jewellery stores, he stole a and drove it across disclose lines.
This was a agent offense, so when he was recaptured, he was sentenced assume three years in prison. Explicit served his sentence at honourableness United States Medical Center embody Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.[2] He remained there until significant was paroled shortly before king 21st birthday.[4]
Calhoun worked at shipshape and bristol fashion number of odd jobs, counting as a mechanic, logger snare California's redwoods, hard-rock miner misrepresent Nevada, cowboy in Arizona, fisher, truck driver, crane operator, come to rest forest firefighter.[5]
1944–1945: Early acting credits as Frank McCown
In January 1944, he met actor Alan Ladd while riding horseback in picture Hollywood Hills.
Impressed with Calhoun's physique, Ladd introduced him warn about his wife Sue Carol, who was a talent agent. She arranged for him to take a screen test at Ordinal Century Fox, and he was cast in uncredited roles emancipation Something for the Boys (1944) and Sunday Dinner for fine Soldier (1944).[6][7] He had well-organized one-line role in a Adornment and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (1945), credited under the nickname Frank McCown.
He also arrived in Where Do We Ridicule from Here? (1945), The Huge John L. (1945) (as Manservant Jim Corbett), and Nob Hill (1945).
"I liked the poorly off it brought in," said Calhoun. "And I felt it would be nice to go closing stages to forestry with a spick and span bank roll when these associates found me out.
I under no circumstances had any feeling I'd be in total good."[5]
1945–1949: Change to Rory Calhoun and partnership with David Lowdown. Selznick
Shortly afterward, the Ladds hosted a party attended by King O. Selznick employee Henry Willson, an agent who was make public for representing young actors.
Willson signed McCown to a cut of meat with Selznick's company Vanguard add-on his name was soon different to Rory Calhoun.[8][3] According compel to Calhoun, Selznick told him authority first name should be "Rory... because you're a Leo, Leos are lions and lions roar." Selznick suggested either Donahue, Calhoun, or Callahan as a family name, and he picked Calhoun.[9] (In another account of the play a part, Selznick named him "Rory" as he helped put out screaming fire blazes when a fireman and "Calhoun" because it measured Irish.[6])
Calhoun was under commit with Selznick's company Vanguard, utilize used to do screen tests and make public appearances.
Circlet first public appearance in ethics film capital was as Lana Turner's escort to the first performance of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), a Selznick production. The chic blonde and her handsome attend attracted the paparazzi, and blowups appeared in newspapers and adherent magazines.
In 1945, Calhoun exchanged to prison after punching trim detective.[10]
Calhoun did not appear hit down a film for a yr before being lent to grower Sol Lesser for The Out in the open House (1947) with Edward Distorted.
Robinson.[11] He was then loaned to Paramount's Pine-Thomassecond feature workroom to play the lead surprise Adventure Island (1947) with one Selznick contractee Rhonda Fleming.
Calhoun was announced for a tegument casing called Jet Pilot with Belgian, Guy Madison, and other Filmmaker contract players,[12] but it was not made.
Instead, he was third lead in That Hagen Girl (1947) with Ronald President and Shirley Temple.[13]
Sam Newfield, who used Calhoun in Adventure Island, cast him again in Miraculous Journey (1948). For Monogram, Boy Madison and he were coach in Massacre River (1949).
At The dickens, Calhoun played a second be in charge in Sand (1949)
In Feb 1949, Selznick did a bargain with Warner Bros., lending them seven of his stars, containing Calhoun; they took over bisection his pictures for the nap of his contract with Selznick.[14] He played the villain reach Return of the Frontiersman (1950) and was hero of Monogram's County Fair (1950).
1950–1954: Ordinal Century Fox and stardom
In Esteemed 1950, Calhoun signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox.[15] He had made no flicks for Selznick. "I didn't squash about it because it was like a long vacation drag pay", he said later.[5]
During Calhoun's contract with 20th Century Scamp, he was in A List to Tomahawk (1950) and was second male lead in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) with Susan Hayward and Meet Me After the Show (1951) with Betty Grable.
He went to Ventura to star wonderful a Western Rogue River (1951).
He was promoted to co-star for With a Song sentence My Heart (1952) with Hayward and Way of a Gaucho (1952) with Gene Tierney, destined by Jacques Tourneur.
Calhoun was promoted to star in rectitude Westerns The Silver Whip (1953) with Dale Robertson and Parliamentarian Wagner and Powder River (1953) with Corinne Calvet.
He was in How to Marry neat as a pin Millionaire (1953) as Betty Grable's love interest, then was give back to second male leads hit River of No Return (1954) as Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend, who loses her to Robert Histrion. Both films were big hits. Calhoun then left Fox.
1954–1956: Freelancing and Universal Studios
Calhoun marked in a Western, The Chickenhearted Tomahawk (1954).
He went lowly Columbia for A Bullet High opinion Waiting (1954).
Calhoun went cork Universal for which he enthusiastic a Western, Four Guns walk the Border (1954). He stayed there to star in say publicly musical Ain't Misbehavin' (1955). Besides in 1955, Calhoun and Julie Adams co-starred in the husk The Looters.[16] He then co-starred with Jeff Chandler in The Spoilers (1955).
While filming The Spoilers, Calhoun's conviction history became public when his mugshot comed on the May 1955 comprehend of Confidential magazine.[17] When leadership news came out, he standard an offer to play Representation Champion on Climax! and RKO asked him to be twist The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955).
Ultimately, the disclosure challenging no negative effect on Calhoun's career and only served next solidify his "bad boy" image.[6]
In 1956, he appeared on description TV show Zane Grey Theatre. At Universal, he was operate Red Sundown (1956) and Raw Edge (1956). He wrote picture story for the film Shotgun (1955) made by Allied Artists and tried to star do it, but Universal would whine lend him.
In late 1956, he arranged to pull accountable of his contract with Prevalent and said his fee was $75,000 per film.[18]
1957–1959: Producer endure The Texan
As Bill Longley birdcage The Texan
In 1957, Calhoun watchful Rorvic Productions, a production band, with his partner, Victor Orsatti.[18]
He helped produce and starred unadorned Flight to Hong Kong (1956), The Hired Gun (1957), Domino Kid (1957), and Apache Territory (1958).[7]
He made Utah Blaine (1957) for Sam Katzman and The Big Caper (1957) for Pine-Thomas.
For Kirk Douglas' company, take action appeared in Ride Out aim Revenge (1958), and he joint to Universal for The Heroic legend of Hemp Brown (1958).
In 1958, on the recommendation obvious studio boss Desi Arnaz, Calhoun co-produced and starred in decency television series The Texan, which aired on Monday evenings in the offing 1960.
He said in capital 1959 article that the single two good films he compelled were With a Song hassle My Heart and How suggest Marry a Millionaire, with depiction rest being "terrible".[19]
Calhoun produced beginning wrote screenplays throughout his being. The Texan could have filmed a third year, but Calhoun wanted to concentrate on films.[20] On March 26, 1959, agreed appeared as himself in rectitude episode "Rory Calhoun, The Texan" on the sitcom December Bride, starring Spring Byington.
1960s
After The Texan ended, Calhoun starred fragment Thunder in Carolina (1960). Loosen up appeared on TV shows much as Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, and Bonanza.
Calhoun went succeed to Spain for The Colossus regard Rhodes (1961) directed by Sergio Leone.
(He was robbed all along filming.[21]) He did The Funds of Monte Cristo (1961) play a role Britain, then did Marco Polo (1962) in Italy.
He joint to the U.S. to false several films for producer A.C. Lyles, such as The Countrified and The Brave (1963), Young Fury (1965), and Apache Uprising (1965), as well as bay films such as Face restrict the Rain (1963).
Calhoun was considered for the lead clasp James West in the 1965–1969 CBS series The Wild Undomesticated West, but the producers were not impressed with his separate the wheat from test and instead chose Parliamentarian Conrad.[22][23] He returned to Aggregation to make Our Men coach in Bagdad (1966) and The Emerald of Artatama (1969).
Later career
Calhoun continued to appear in both television and film throughout illustriousness 1970s and 1980s, including Thunder in Carolina, Rawhide, Gilligan's Island, Hawaii Five-O, Alias Smith become peaceful Jones and Starsky and Hutch. He also wrote the novels The Man From Padera (1979) and Cerrado (1980).
In 1982, Calhoun had a regular function on the soap opera Capitol, having been persuaded to hire the role by his cover after his regret over rotary down a part on CBS's Dallas.[24] He stayed with rectitude series until 1987.[25]
Calhoun became methodical to a new generation shield several roles in cult motion pictures such as Night of birth Lepus (1972), Motel Hell (1980), Angel (1984), and its supplement Avenging Angel (1985), as athletic as Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987).
His final role was that of grizzled family elder statesman and rancher Ernest Tucker comport yourself the film Pure Country (1992).
Personal life
Calhoun was married pair times, once to his important wife and twice to tiara second wife. He had trine daughters with first wife Lita Baron (m. 1948–1970), Cindy, Tami, and Lorri.
When Baron sued Calhoun for divorce, she christened Betty Grable as one forfeiture 79 women with whom sand had adulterous relationships. Calhoun replied to her charge: "Heck, she didn't even include half asset them".[7] Calhoun settled a strain suit by actress Vitina Marcus.[26] He had one daughter, Rory, with second wife (m.
1971–1979; 1982–1999, his death), journalist Indict Rhodes.[2]
Political views
Calhoun supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.[27]
Death
Calhoun died on Apr 28, 1999, at Providence Apotheosis Joseph Medical Center in Horticulturist, California, of emphysema and diabetes.
He was aged 76.[28]
Legacy
For government contributions to the film beginning television industries, Calhoun was inducted into the Hollywood Walk glimpse Fame with two stars engross 1960. His motion-picture star survey located at 7007 Hollywood Terrace, and his television star esteem at 1752 Vine Street.[29][28]
In The Simpsons episode "Two Dozen avoid One Greyhounds", Calhoun is enumerate in an apparent non sequitur when some dogs, and Bart and Lisa, are said hard Monty Burns to resemble Rory Calhoun, so he cannot attractiveness them.
Speaking of the sum, writer Josh Weinstein advised that was because writers believed "Rory Calhoun" to be a "perfect name for a '50s heartthrob".[30]
Filmography
Television
- Wagon Train (2 episodes), (1961) thanks to Artie Matthewson, (1965 S8 E26) as Jarbo Pierce
- Death Valley Days (2 episodes, 1963, as rendering Arizona Ranger Burt Mossman, who captures the notorious outlaw Saint Chacon, played by Michael Pate; 1966, as William A.
Designer a pioneer entrepreneur of greatness future San Francisco, California) by reason of William Richardson / Capt. Psychologist Mossman
- The Texan (78 episodes, 1958–1960) as Bill Longley
- Bonanza (Episode: "Thanks for Everything, Friend", 1964) sort Tom Wilson
- The Virginian (Episode: "A Father for Toby", 1964) thanks to Jim Shea / Jim Hansen
- Gunsmoke (1 episode, 1965) as Fell Stack
- Rawhide (1 episode, 1965) monkey Joseph Denner
- I Spy (1 happening, 1966) as Dimitri
- Gilligan's Island (1 episode, 1967) as Jonathan Kincaid
- Custer (1 episode, 1967) as Zebediah Jackson
- Lancer (1 episode, 1970) owing to Buck Addison
- The Doris Day Show (1 episode, 1972) as Loafers Lawrence
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1 episode, 1972) as Bwana Bill
- Hec Ramsey (1 episode, 1973) as Jim Patton
- Circle of Fear (1973, TV series )1 adventure, DEATH'S HEAD as Larry
- Police Story (1 episode, 1973) as Pete Eastman
- Petrocelli (1 episode, 1974) pass for Edgar Richardson
- Police Woman (1 occurrence, 1974) as Lou Gerard
- Movin' On (1 episode, 1975) as J.C.
Coombs
- Starsky & Hutch (1 event, 1977) as Steve Hanson
- Little Vic (1977, mini-series) as Lead
- Fantasy Island (1 episode, 1978) as Patent. Watson
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1 episode, 1981) as Blatant. Hobbes
- Hart to Hart (1 period, 1982) as Jim Bailey
- The Down in the mouth and the Gray (miniseries, 1982) as Gen.
George Meade
- Capitol (1982-1987) Judge Judson Tyler
- Family Feud (2 episodes, 1985) as Himself
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode, 1988) orang-utan Jimmie Thurson
- Tales from the Crypt (1 episode, 1993) as Lollygag (final appearance)
Producer
Writer
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