Victor Mature

Victor Mature

Acting 1913-01-29 Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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 Boatswain's 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 career After the war, Mature was cast by John Ford in My Darling Clementine, playing Doc Holliday opposite Henry Fonda's 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. DeMille's 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 Monkees's 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, "I'm not an actor — and I've 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. Michael's 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.

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2012 Self (archive footage)
1984 Manoah
1979 Howard Everett
1976 Nick
1975 Self (archive footage)
1972 Carmine Ganucci
1971 Self (archive footage)
1968 The Big Victor
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1966 Tony Powell
1965 (archive footage)
1961 Oleg
1959 Ben Lassiter
1959 Henry Jasper 'Hank' Whirling
1959 Hannibal
1959 Kasmin Khan
1958 Capt. Cliff Brandon
1958 Mike Conway
1958 Sgt. David Thatcher
1957 Harry Miller
1957 Charles Sturgis
1956 Ken Duffield
1956 Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves
1956 Zarak Khan
1955 Jed Cooper
1955 Crazy Horse
1955 Shelley Martin
1954 Horemheb
1954 Demetrius
1954 'The Scarf'
1954 Matt Hallett
1953 Demetrius
1953 Lt. Sam Pryor
1953 Bill Blakeley
1953 Antar
1952 Lt. Dave Andrews
1952 James Sullivan
1952 Captain
1952 Steve Bennett
1951 Narrator (voice)
1950 Marc Fury
1950 Andy Clark
1950 Jeff DeMarco
1949 Samson
1949 Pete Wilson
1949 Danny James
1948 Lt. Candella
1948 Cash Blackwell / Tex Cameron
1947 Nick Bianco
1947 Michael Drego
1946 Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday
1943 Self
1942 Tommy Lundy
1942 Johnny Grey
1942 Paul Dresser
1942 Jefferson Harper
1941 Frankie Christopher (Botticelli)
1941 Doctor Omar
1940 Tumak
1940 Daniel 'Dan' Marvin
1940 William Trainor