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Profile of Rory Calhoun on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Rory Calhoun  
   
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Date of Birth: 8th August 1922
   
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown Durgin on August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was born in Los Angeles, California. As an actor he starred in more than eighty motion pictures and a large number of television episodes.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Calhoun has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7007 Hollywood Blvd. and a second star at 1750 Vine Street for his work in television.

Starlet Lana Turner attended a film premiere with Calhoun very early in his career. Calhoun's agent, Henry Willson, suggested that Turner wear white fur, "to play up the contrast between the actress' blondness and Calhoun's wolfish, black-Irish good looks and dark suit".1 After the photos of Calhoun and Turner caused a sensation, Calhoun's career took off.

In 1955, Willson gave Confidential magazine, a scurrilous scandal sheet, information on the criminal past of Calhoun in exchange for burying a story about the homosexuality of Rock Hudson, a more successful Willson client. The story in Confidential did not harm Calhoun's bad boy image or his career.

Popular culture

  • In the episode of "The Simpsons" titled 2 Dozen & 1 Greyhounds, Mr. Burns spares a puppy from becoming part of a tuxedo because the puppy stands on its hind legs and in doing so inexplicably reminds him of Rory Calhoun.

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