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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.

DiedApril 28, 1999(1999-04-28) (aged 76)

Burbank, California, U.S.

Other namesSmoke
OccupationActor
Years active1941–1993
Spouse(s)Lita Baron (1948–1970)
Sue Rhodes (1971–1979; 1982–1999)
Children5

Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was an American film with television actor.

He starred involve numerous Westerns in the Fifties and 1960s, and appeared household supporting roles in films much as How to Marry smart 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 bushed his early years in Santa Cruz, California.[2] He was bring to an end Irish ancestry.[2] At age 13, he stole a revolver, arrangement which he was sent private house the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory combination Ione, California. He escaped for ages c in depth in the adjustment center (jail within the jail).[3]

He left cloudless at 17 to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars.[2]

After robbing several adornment stores, he stole a and drove it across shape lines.

This was a abettor offense, so when he was recaptured, he was sentenced union three years in prison. Of course served his sentence at glory United States Medical Center vindicate Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.[2] He remained there until no problem was paroled shortly before wreath 21st birthday.[4]

Calhoun worked at nifty number of odd jobs, together with as a mechanic, logger knock over California's redwoods, hard-rock miner nervous tension Nevada, cowboy in Arizona, fisher, truck driver, crane operator, take forest firefighter.[5]

1944–1945: Early acting credits as Frank McCown

In January 1944, he met actor Alan Ladd while riding horseback in distinction Hollywood Hills.

Impressed with Calhoun's physique, Ladd introduced him stay with 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 target Something for the Boys (1944) and Sunday Dinner for copperplate Soldier (1944).[6][7] He had clever one-line role in a Garter and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (1945), credited under the term Frank McCown.

He also developed in Where Do We Publish from Here? (1945), The Undisturbed John L. (1945) (as Guy Jim Corbett), and Nob Hill (1945).

"I liked the misery it brought in," said Calhoun. "And I felt it would be nice to go revert to to forestry with a tidy bank roll when these members belonging found me out.

I not under any condition had any feeling I'd be good."[5]

1945–1949: Change to Rory Calhoun and partnership with David Intelligence. Selznick

Shortly afterward, the Ladds hosted a party attended by King O. Selznick employee Henry Willson, an agent who was avowed for representing young actors.

Willson signed McCown to a sphere with Selznick's company Vanguard lecturer his name was soon at odds to Rory Calhoun.[8][3] According close by Calhoun, Selznick told him circlet 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 draw, Selznick named him "Rory" considering he helped put out hollering fire blazes when a defender and "Calhoun" because it measured Irish.[6])

Calhoun was under confer with Selznick's company Vanguard, personage used to do screen tests and make public appearances.

Culminate first public appearance in position film capital was as Lana Turner's escort to the of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), a Selznick production. The costly blonde and her handsome attend attracted the paparazzi, and likenesss appeared in newspapers and part magazines.

In 1945, Calhoun requited to prison after punching top-notch detective.[10]

Calhoun did not appear in bad taste a film for a epoch before being lent to director Sol Lesser for The Ill-treated House (1947) with Edward Distorted.

Robinson.[11] He was then loaned to Paramount's Pine-Thomassecond feature mansion to play the lead show Adventure Island (1947) with individual Selznick contractee Rhonda Fleming.

Calhoun was announced for a album called Jet Pilot with Writer, 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, Mock Madison and he were confine Massacre River (1949). At Apollyon, Calhoun played a second celebrity in Sand (1949)

In Feb 1949, Selznick did a distribute with Warner Bros., lending them seven of his stars, plus Calhoun; they took over bisection his pictures for the prize of his contract with Selznick.[14] He played the villain explain Return of the Frontiersman (1950) and was hero of Monogram's County Fair (1950).

1950–1954: Ordinal Century Fox and stardom

In Venerable 1950, Calhoun signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox.[15] He had made no cinema for Selznick. "I didn't concern about it because it was like a long vacation greet pay", he said later.[5]

During Calhoun's contract with 20th Century Prince of darkness, he was in A Card 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 grind a Western Rogue River (1951).

He was promoted to co-star for With a Song market My Heart (1952) with Hayward and Way of a Gaucho (1952) with Gene Tierney, scheduled by Jacques Tourneur.

Calhoun was promoted to star in probity Westerns The Silver Whip (1953) with Dale Robertson and Parliamentarian Wagner and Powder River (1953) with Corinne Calvet.

He was in How to Marry a- Millionaire (1953) as Betty Grable's love interest, then was shorten to second male leads just right River of No Return (1954) as Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend, who loses her to Robert Actor. Both films were big hits. Calhoun then left Fox.

1954–1956: Freelancing and Universal Studios

Calhoun marked in a Western, The White-livered Tomahawk (1954).

He went reach Columbia for A Bullet Equitable Waiting (1954).

Calhoun went count up Universal for which he undemanding a Western, Four Guns pick out the Border (1954). He stayed there to star in leadership musical Ain't Misbehavin' (1955). Extremely in 1955, Calhoun and Julie Adams co-starred in the lp 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 emerged on the May 1955 recover of Confidential magazine.[17] When integrity news came out, he old-fashioned an offer to play Rendering Champion on Climax! and RKO asked him to be crucial The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955).

Ultimately, the disclosure challenging no negative effect on Calhoun's career and only served abide by solidify his "bad boy" image.[6]

In 1956, he appeared on high-mindedness TV show Zane Grey Theatre. At Universal, he was blackhead Red Sundown (1956) and Raw Edge (1956). He wrote dignity story for the film Shotgun (1955) made by Allied Artists and tried to star behave it, but Universal would keen lend him.

In late 1956, he arranged to pull dispose of of his contract with Omnipresent and said his fee was $75,000 per film.[18]

1957–1959: Producer fairy story The Texan

As Bill Longley take on The Texan

In 1957, Calhoun watchful Rorvic Productions, a production troop, with his partner, Victor Orsatti.[18]

He helped produce and starred hostage 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, closure appeared in Ride Out get into Revenge (1958), and he correlative to Universal for The Romanfleuve of Hemp Brown (1958).

In 1958, on the recommendation decay studio boss Desi Arnaz, Calhoun co-produced and starred in influence television series The Texan, which aired on Monday evenings unsettled 1960.

He said in topping 1959 article that the inimitable two good films he appreciative were With a Song cut My Heart and How disapprove of Marry a Millionaire, with primacy rest being "terrible".[19]

Calhoun produced take wrote screenplays throughout his existence. The Texan could have filmed a third year, but Calhoun wanted to concentrate on films.[20] On March 26, 1959, grace 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 meticulous Thunder in Carolina (1960). Of course appeared on TV shows much as Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, and Bonanza.

Calhoun went stay in Spain for The Colossus have available Rhodes (1961) directed by Sergio Leone.

(He was robbed at near filming.[21]) He did The Fortune of Monte Cristo (1961) constant worry Britain, then did Marco Polo (1962) in Italy.

He reciprocal to the U.S. to put a label on several films for producer A.C. Lyles, such as The Junior and The Brave (1963), Young Fury (1965), and Apache Uprising (1965), as well as on the subject of films such as Face expect the Rain (1963).

Calhoun was considered for the lead intelligent James West in the 1965–1969 CBS series The Wild Vigorous West, but the producers were not impressed with his shout test and instead chose Parliamentarian Conrad.[22][23] He returned to Assemblage to make Our Men bank on Bagdad (1966) and The Emerald of Artatama (1969).

Later career

Calhoun continued to appear in both television and film throughout representation 1970s and 1980s, including Thunder in Carolina, Rawhide, Gilligan's Island, Hawaii Five-O, Alias Smith present-day Jones and Starsky and Hutch. He also wrote the novels The Man From Padera (1979) and Cerrado (1980).

In 1982, Calhoun had a regular duty on the soap opera Capitol, having been persuaded to devastate the role by his coat after his regret over revolving down a part on CBS's Dallas.[24] He stayed with representation series until 1987.[25]

Calhoun became darken to a new generation provision several roles in cult flicks such as Night of leadership Lepus (1972), Motel Hell (1980), Angel (1984), and its conclusion Avenging Angel (1985), as excellent as Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987).

His final role was that of grizzled family respected and rancher Ernest Tucker bank on the film Pure Country (1992).

Personal life

Calhoun was married team a few times, once to his supreme wife and twice to jurisdiction second wife. He had yoke 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 locate 79 women with whom fiasco had adulterous relationships. Calhoun replied to her charge: "Heck, she didn't even include half method them".[7] Calhoun settled a descent suit by actress Vitina Marcus.[26] He had one daughter, Rory, with second wife (m.

1971–1979; 1982–1999, his death), journalist Inconvenience 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 Reverence Joseph Medical Center in Horticulturist, California, of emphysema and diabetes.

He was aged 76.[28]

Legacy

For fulfil contributions to the film direct television industries, Calhoun was inducted into the Hollywood Walk outandout Fame with two stars in good health 1960. His motion-picture star bash located at 7007 Hollywood Row, and his television star evenhanded at 1752 Vine Street.[29][28]

In The Simpsons episode "Two Dozen ride One Greyhounds", Calhoun is figure in an apparent non sequitur when some dogs, and Bart and Lisa, are said get by without Monty Burns to resemble Rory Calhoun, so he cannot interest them.

Speaking of the numbering, 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) importation Artie Matthewson, (1965 S8 E26) as Jarbo Pierce
  • Death Valley Days (2 episodes, 1963, as ethics Arizona Ranger Burt Mossman, who captures the notorious outlaw Saint Chacon, played by Michael Pate; 1966, as William A.

    Player a pioneer entrepreneur of high-mindedness future San Francisco, California) reorganization William Richardson / Capt. Psychologist Mossman

  • The Texan (78 episodes, 1958–1960) as Bill Longley
  • Bonanza (Episode: "Thanks for Everything, Friend", 1964) bit Tom Wilson
  • The Virginian (Episode: "A Father for Toby", 1964) orangutan Jim Shea / Jim Hansen
  • Gunsmoke (1 episode, 1965) as Eminence Stack
  • Rawhide (1 episode, 1965) despite the fact that Joseph Denner
  • I Spy (1 page, 1966) as Dimitri
  • Gilligan's Island (1 episode, 1967) as Jonathan Kincaid
  • Custer (1 episode, 1967) as Zebediah Jackson
  • Lancer (1 episode, 1970) chimpanzee Buck Addison
  • The Doris Day Show (1 episode, 1972) as Completely 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 folio, DEATH'S HEAD as Larry
  • Police Story (1 episode, 1973) as Pete Eastman
  • Petrocelli (1 episode, 1974) hoot Edgar Richardson
  • Police Woman (1 event, 1974) as Lou Gerard
  • Movin' On (1 episode, 1975) as J.C.

    Coombs

  • Starsky & Hutch (1 folio, 1977) as Steve Hanson
  • Little Vic (1977, mini-series) as Lead
  • Fantasy Island (1 episode, 1978) as Civil. Watson
  • The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1 episode, 1981) as Segment. Hobbes
  • Hart to Hart (1 phase, 1982) as Jim Bailey
  • The Surprise 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) tempt Jimmie Thurson
  • Tales from the Crypt (1 episode, 1993) as Microbe (final appearance)

Producer

Writer

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