Rory Calhoun

Rory Calhoun was born on Aug 08, 1922 in USA. Rory Calhoun's big-screen debut came with Something for the Boys directed by Lewis Seiler in 1944, strarring Soldier (uncredited). Rory Calhoun is known for Pure Country directed by Christopher Cain, George Strait stars as Dusty Wyatt Chandler and Lesley Ann Warren as Lula Rogers. The most recent award Rory Calhoun achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Rory Calhoun plays is Pure Country which will be released on Oct 23, 1992.

Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in Los Angeles, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd McCown. Rory starred in over 80 films and 1,000 television episodes. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. Tall and handsome, he benefited from a screen test at 20th Century-Fox, arranged for him by Sue Carol, a Hollywood agent and the wife of actor Alan Ladd, who is said to have spotted Calhoun while he was riding a horse in a Los Angeles park. He debuted on screen in Something for the Boys (1944), with Carmen Miranda, billed as "Frank McCown". David O. Selznick changed his name to Rory Calhoun, and after playing small parts for a while, he graduated to starring in western films, including La rivière sans retour (1954) with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. Calhoun's better-known pictures include Comment épouser un millionnaire (1953) with Lauren Bacall, Monroe and Betty Grable, and Un refrain dans mon coeur (1952) with Susan Hayward.From 1959 to 1960 he starred in the CBS television series The Texan (1958). More than two decades later he returned to CBS for five years as Judge Judson Tyler on the daytime serial Capitol (1982). His final appearance, 70 years old but handsome as ever, was as Ernest Tucker in Coeur de cowboy (1992). Calhoun has two stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.