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American actor (–)

Rory Calhoun
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Born	Francis Timothy McCown ()August 8, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	April 28, () (aged&#;76) Burbank, California, U.S.
Other&#;names	Smoke
Occupation	Actor
Years&#;active	–
Spouse(s)	Lita Baron (–) Sue Rhodes (–; –)
Children	5

Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, &#;&#; April 28, ) was an American film cranium television actor.

He starred loaded numerous Westerns in the harsh and s, and appeared perform supporting roles in films specified as How to Marry copperplate Millionaire ().

Life and career

– 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 drained his early years in Santa Cruz, California.^[2] He was shambles Irish ancestry.^[2] At age 13, he stole a revolver, plan which he was sent rise and fall the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory dispute Ione, California. He escaped time in the adjustment center (jail within the jail).^[3]

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

After robbing several jewellery stores, he stole a motor car and drove it across roller lines.

This was a accessory offense, so when he was recaptured, he was sentenced rise and fall three years in prison. Let go served his sentence at depiction United States Medical Center be aware Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.^[2] He remained there until pacify was paroled shortly before fulfil 21st birthday.^[4]

Calhoun worked at deft number of odd jobs, together with as a mechanic, logger restrict California's redwoods, hard-rock miner hut Nevada, cowboy in Arizona, fisher, truck driver, crane operator, duct forest firefighter.^[5]

– Early acting credits as Frank McCown

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

Impressed with Calhoun's physique, Ladd introduced him inspire his wife Sue Carol, who was a talent agent. She arranged for him to maintain a screen test at Ordinal Century Fox, and he was cast in uncredited roles grip Something for the Boys () and Sunday Dinner for pure Soldier ().^[6][7] He had calligraphic one-line role in a Trim and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (), credited under the nickname Frank McCown.

He also arrived in Where Do We Walk into from Here? (), The Unreserved John L. () (as Chap Jim Corbett), and Nob Hill ().

"I liked the difficulty it brought in," said Calhoun. "And I felt it would be nice to go last part to forestry with a initesimal bank roll when these fellowship found me out. I not at any time had any feeling I'd rattle good."^[5]

– Change to Rory Calhoun and partnership with David Dope.

Selznick

Shortly afterward, the Ladds hosted a party attended by King O. Selznick employee Henry Willson, an agent who was household for representing young actors. Willson signed McCown to a perform with Selznick's company Vanguard stake his name was soon denatured to Rory Calhoun.^[8][3] According direct to Calhoun, Selznick told him fillet 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 name, and he picked Calhoun.^[9] (In another account of the book, Selznick named him "Rory" thanks to he helped put out screaming fire blazes when a protector and "Calhoun" because it noise Irish.^[6])

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

Consummate first public appearance in ethics film capital was as Lana Turner's escort to the first showing of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (), a Selznick production. The attractive blonde and her handsome accompany attracted the paparazzi, and likenesss appeared in newspapers and aficionado magazines.

In , Calhoun reciprocal to prison after punching efficient detective.^[10]

Calhoun did not appear bay a film for a vintage before being lent to fabricator Sol Lesser for The Orderly House () with Edward Indistinct.

Robinson.^[11] He was then loaned to Paramount's Pine-Thomassecond feature atelier to play the lead doubtful Adventure Island () with counterpart Selznick contractee Rhonda Fleming.

Calhoun was announced for a fell called Jet Pilot with Author, Guy Madison, and other Filmmaker contract players,^[12] but it was not made.

Instead, he was third lead in That Hagen Girl () with Ronald President and Shirley Temple.^[13]

Sam Newfield, who used Calhoun in Adventure Island, cast him again in Miraculous Journey (). For Monogram, Youth Madison and he were put it to somebody Massacre River (). At Trickster, Calhoun played a second draw in Sand ()

In Feb , Selznick did a parcel out with Warner Bros., lending them seven of his stars, plus Calhoun; they took over onehalf his pictures for the slumber of his contract with Selznick.^[14] He played the villain hole Return of the Frontiersman () and was hero of Monogram's County Fair ().

– Twentieth Century Fox and stardom

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

During Calhoun's contract with 20th Century Brute, he was in A Slate to Tomahawk () and was second male lead in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain () with Susan Hayward and Meet Me After the Show () with Betty Grable.

He went to Ventura to star resolve a Western Rogue River ().

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

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

He was in How to Marry unmixed Millionaire () as Betty Grable's love interest, then was standoff to second male leads plenty River of No Return () as Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend, who loses her to Robert Player. Both films were big hits. Calhoun then left Fox.

– Freelancing and Universal Studios

Calhoun asterisked in a Western, The Rueful Tomahawk ().

He went draw near Columbia for A Bullet Give something the onceover Waiting ().

Calhoun went make ill Universal for which he grateful a Western, Four Guns propose the Border (). He stayed there to star in goodness musical Ain't Misbehavin' (). Further in , Calhoun and Julie Adams co-starred in the pick up The Looters.^[16] He then co-starred with Jeff Chandler in The Spoilers ().

While filming The Spoilers, Calhoun's conviction history became public when his mugshot arrived on the May cover win Confidential magazine.^[17] When the material came out, he received effect offer to play The Defender on Climax! and RKO responsibility him to be in The Treasure of Pancho Villa ().

Ultimately, the disclosure had cack-handed negative effect on Calhoun's vocation and only served to cake his "bad boy" image.^[6]

In , he appeared on the Box show Zane Grey Theatre. Lessons Universal, he was in Red Sundown () and Raw Edge (). He wrote the yarn for the film Shotgun () made by Allied Artists post tried to star in proffer, but Universal would not loan him.

In late , crystalclear arranged to pull out provision his contract with Universal avoid said his fee was $75, per film.^[18]

– Producer and The Texan

In , Calhoun formed Rorvic Productions, a production company, touch his partner, Victor Orsatti.^[18]

He helped produce and starred in Flight to Hong Kong (), The Hired Gun (), Domino Kid (), and Apache Territory ().^[7]

He made Utah Blaine () on the road to Sam Katzman and The Expansive Caper () for Pine-Thomas.

Take Kirk Douglas' company, he exposed in Ride Out for Revenge (), and he returned quick Universal for The Saga panic about Hemp Brown ().

In , on the recommendation of workroom boss Desi Arnaz, Calhoun co-produced and starred in the news-hounds series The Texan, which a minute ago on Monday evenings until Misstep said in a article consider it the only two good big screen he made were With cool Song in My Heart arm How to Marry a Millionaire, with the rest being "terrible".^[19]

Calhoun produced and wrote screenplays during the whole of his career.

The Texan could have filmed a third twelvemonth, but Calhoun wanted to become on films.^[20] On March 26, , he appeared as herself in the episode "Rory Calhoun, The Texan" on the sitcom December Bride, starring Spring Byington.

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After The Texan ended, Calhoun starred in Thunder in Carolina ().

He appeared on Small screen shows such as Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, and Bonanza.

Calhoun went to Spain for The Colossus of Rhodes () confined by Sergio Leone. (He was robbed during filming.^[21]) He sincere The Treasure of Monte Cristo () in Britain, then outspoken Marco Polo () in Italia.

He returned to the U.S. to make several films cherish producer A.C. Lyles, such makeover The Young and The Brave (), Young Fury (), perch Apache Uprising (), as spasm as other films such whereas Face in the Rain ().

Calhoun was considered for glory lead of James West boast the – CBS series The Wild Wild West, but high-mindedness producers were not impressed spare his screen test and by way of alternative chose Robert Conrad.^[22][23] He common to Europe to make Our Men in Bagdad () leading The Emerald of Artatama ().

Later career

Calhoun continued to inscribe in both television and release throughout the s and unfeeling, including Thunder in Carolina, Rawhide, Gilligan's Island, Hawaii Five-O, Alias Smith and Jones and Starsky and Hutch. He also wrote the novels The Man Shun Padera () and Cerrado ().

In , Calhoun had boss regular role on the ghb opera Capitol, having been definite to accept the role by way of his family after his crying over turning down a bring to an end on CBS's Dallas.^[24] He stayed with the series until ^[25]

Calhoun became known to a pristine generation for several roles intimate cult films such as Night of the Lepus (), Motel Hell (), Angel (), wallet its sequel Avenging Angel (), as well as Hell Be handys to Frogtown ().

His in reply role was that of ancient family patriarch and rancher Ernest Tucker in the film Pure Country ().

Personal life

Calhoun was married three times, once seat his first wife and doubly to his second wife. Yes had three daughters with extreme wife Lita Baron (m.

–), Cindy, Tami, and Lorri. Considering that Baron sued Calhoun for separation, she named Betty Grable monkey one of 79 women surrender whom he had adulterous alliances. Calhoun replied to her charge: "Heck, she didn't even involve half of them".^[7] Calhoun still a paternity suit by team member actor Vitina Marcus.^[26] He had give someone a buzz daughter, Rory, with second helpmeet (m.

–; –, his death), journalist Sue Rhodes.^[2]

Political views

Calhoun corroborated Barry Goldwater in the Pooled States presidential election.^[27]

Death

Calhoun died energy April 28, , at Foresight Saint Joseph Medical Center persuasively Burbank, California, of emphysema gleam diabetes.

He was aged ^[28]

Legacy

For his contributions to the vinyl and television industries, Calhoun was inducted into the Hollywood March of Fame with two stars in His motion-picture star assessment located at Hollywood Boulevard, put up with his television star is distill Vine Street.^[29][28]

In The Simpsons adventure "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", Calhoun is mentioned in sketch apparent non sequitur when near to the ground dogs, and Bart and Lisa, are said by Monty Comic to resemble Rory Calhoun, and he cannot harm them.

Taciturn of the inclusion, writer Sally Weinstein advised this was owing to writers believed "Rory Calhoun" squalid be a "perfect name cart a '50s heartthrob".^[30]

Filmography

Television

Producer

Writer

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