Victor Mature
Gender: Male
Born: 29th January 1913
Died: 4th August 1999
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Cry of the City, I Wake Up Screaming, Kiss of Death, My Darling Clementine, The Robe, The Shanghai Gesture, Androcles and the Lion, After the Fox, Zarak, My Gal Sal, Betrayed, Million Dollar Mermaid, The Robe, One Million B.C., The Egyptian, The Las Vegas Story, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Dangerous Mission, Head, Samson and Delilah, Firepower, Violent Saturday, China Doll, Escort West, Affair with a Stranger, Interpol, The Big Circus, Easy Living, Chief Crazy Horse, Samson and Delilah, Wabash Avenue, Safari, Fury at Furnace Creek, Red, Hot and Blue, The Last Frontier, The Sharkfighters, Footlight Serenade, Song of the Islands, The Long Haul, Timbuktu, The Glory Brigade, Something for the Birds, Captain Caution, Moss Rose, China Doll, Tank Force, Seven Days' Leave
Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, was an Italian-speaking immigrant from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol (now Trentino in Italy, at that time Austrian-Hungarian Empire); he was a cutler. His mother, Clara P. (Ackley), was Kentucky-born and of Swiss heritage. An older brother, Marcellus Paul Mature, died at 11 in 1918 from osteomyelitis. Victor Mature was educated at parochial schools, the Kentucky Military Institute and the Spencerian Business School. He briefly sold candy and operated a restaurant before moving to California.
Discovered while on stage at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, his first leading role was as a fur-clad caveman in One Million B.C. (1940), after which he joined 20th Century Fox to star opposite actresses such as Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth.
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
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