Victor Mature

Victor Mature (born in Louisville, Kentucky; 29 January 1915–4 August 1999) was an American film actor. He is often described as an early examplar of the term ' due to his muscular physique and stolid onscreen manner. But unlike any of his contemporaries and his many successors, Mature always brought a sense of fragility, doubt and uncertainty to his characters. His Samson in Samson and Delilah is no doubt his best known role; not because of the beefcake, but for the pathos he brings to the blinded hero.

Filmography

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• The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)
• One Million B.C. (1940)
• Captain Caution (1940)
• No, No, Nanette (1940)
• I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
• The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
• Song of the Islands (1942)
• My Gal Sal (1942)
• Footlight Serenade (1942)
• Seven Days' Leave (1942)
• Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
• ' (1946) (short subject)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• Moss Rose (1947)
• Kiss of Death (1947)
• Fury of Furnace Creek (1948)
• Cry of the City (1948)
• Easy Living (1949)
• Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
• Samson and Delilah (1949)
• Wabash Avenue (1950)
• Stella (1950)
• I'll Get By (1950) (Cameo)
• Gambling House (1951)
• The Las Vegas Story (1952)
• Something for the Birds (1952)
• Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
• Androcles and the Lion (1952)
• The Glory Brigade (1953)

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• Affair with a Stranger (1953)
• The Robe (1953)
• The Veils of Bagdad (1953)
• Dangerous Mission (1954)
• Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
• The Egyptian (1954)
• Betrayed (1954)
• Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
• Violent Saturday (1955)
• The Last Frontier (1955)
• Safari (1956)
• The Sharkfighters (1956)
• Zarak (1956)
• Pickup Alley (1957)
• The Long Haul (1957)
• China Doll (1958) (also producer)
• Tank Force (1958)
• Escort West (1958)
• Timbuktu (1959)
• The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
• The Big Circus (1959)
• Hannibal (1960)
• The Tartars (1961)
• Lykke og krone (1962) (documentary)
• After the Fox (1966)
• Head (1968)
• Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• Firepower (1979)

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