Rory Calhoun

Birth Name:

Francis Timothy McCown

Birth Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession

Actor, Producer, Writer, Soundtrack

Didn't intend to go into acting, but Alan Ladd convinced him to find a screen test when the two encountered each other on a Hollywood Hills bridle trail
Worked as a grease monkey, a logger in California's redwood forests, a hard-rock miner in Nevada, a cowpuncher in Arizona, a net hauler for fishing boats, a dump truck driver, a crane operator and a forest firefighter
Quote: "You could say there were more B Westerns than A Westerns, but even so, I always enjoyed putting on the hat, strapping on the gun and feeling like a kid again․"
Quote: "By and large, I suppose my image is Western․ If the two or three dozen Western features I made didn't do it, the 79 episodes of my television series, 'The Texan,' certainly set it․"
Served time in the federal reformatory at El Reno, Okla․, for hot-wiring cars, but decided to turn his life around after his incarceration
His theater credits include a London production of "Belle Starr" that ran from 1969 through 1970
Best remembered for his western films in the 1950s and his role in the television series "The Texan․"
His longtime favorite film was 'With a Song in My Heart," which he appeared in opposite Susan Hayward
Wrote such novels as "The man From Padera" and "Cerrado․"
In an episode of "The Simpsons" called "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds," supporting character Montgomery Burns says that a puppy that likes to stand on its hind legs reminds him of Rory Calhoun

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