Rory Calhoun Overview:

Actor, Rory Calhoun, was born Francis Timothy Cuthbert on Aug 8, 1922 in Los Angeles, CA. Calhoun died at the age of 76 on Apr 28, 1999 in Burbank, CA .

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He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Television and Motion Pictures.

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On Blu-ray: Rocks a Toga in The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

By KC on Jul 18, 2018 From Classic Movies

Before Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone made his name with spaghetti westerns, he began his career taking a stab at the sword and sandal genre with The Colossus of Rhodes. It is astonishing that the director’s first credited directing job is an epic-sized production like this one. While he did h... Read full article


Warner Archive: Anne Francis and in The Hired Gun (1957)

By KC on May 11, 2015 From Classic Movies

There's something so satisfying about a no-nonsense, beautifully-filmed western. A couple of likeable stars, good supporting players, stunning locations. The Hired Hand (1957) is that kind of movie: a briskly paced, efficiently filmed story that speeds lightly through its one hour running time. It'... Read full article


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Rory Calhoun Quotes:

Darios: [after seeing a court servant die from drinking poison] Somehow I've lost my desire for wine.
[he pours his wine out onto the floor]


Station Agent: Who's coming after you?
Brett Wade: My past. Every dark, miserable day of it.


Loco Dempsey: You got radio all the way up here?
Eben: Oh, sure. Radio, houses, everything.


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After his release from San Quentin, Calhoun worked several odd jobs, including cowpuncher and lumberjack.

His young criminal career was rather extensive. A high school dropout, he stole a revolver at age 13 which landed him in the California Youth Authority, Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, California. He escaped while in the adjustment center (jail within the jail). After robbing several jewelry stores, he stole a car and drove it across state lines. This offense sent him to the federal penitentiary in Springfield, Missouri for three years. When he finished his sentence, he was incarcerated in San Quentin on other charges and remained there until he was paroled just before his twenty-first birthday.

In 1943, while horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills, he accidentally met actor Alan Ladd, whose wife, Sue Carol was an agent. She landed him a one-line role in the Laurel and Hardy comedy short The Bullfighters (1945) under his name of "Frank McCown".

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