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Post by politicidal on Jan 14, 2018 0:16:54 GMT
Just thought about this while watching Safari (1956) today. He was a great fit for thosee Technicolor adventure movies and film noirs. But he seems have a poor reputation compared to other popular actors from that period. I remember a quote where even he poked fun at himself, saying he's a professional golfer or something like that.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 14, 2018 0:19:24 GMT
I think he's over 9000.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 14, 2018 0:26:06 GMT
When Mature was denied membership into the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club which did not accept actors, he replied:
"I am NOT an actor -- and I can show you the critics reviews to prove it!"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 14, 2018 0:33:07 GMT
Poor Victor always gave me the heebie-jeebies the same way that Nicholas Cage used to.
I have gotten so that I can watch a Cage movie without feeling physically repulsed but somehow Victor still makes my skin crawl. Finally watched Kiss of Death recently because I like Richard Widmark and had never seen more than clips of the film so really HAD to sit through VM.
No idea why my allergy to the guy as I usually am drawn to character types. My mom liked him and dragged me to see his pictures but that's not why I dislike him.
Mysterious !
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Post by politicidal on Jan 14, 2018 0:57:38 GMT
When Mature was denied membership into the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club which did not accept actors, he replied: "I am NOT an actor -- and I can show you the critics reviews to prove it!" Well in 1949, I don't know who else could have played Samson. |
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Post by petrolino on Jan 14, 2018 1:07:16 GMT
Strong performer with a sense of humour. I like him best in crime pictures like 'Kiss Of Death' (1947), 'Cry Of The City' (1948), 'Gambling House' (1950) and 'Violent Saturday' (1955). I'd rank him high.
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Post by outrider127 on Jan 14, 2018 1:59:34 GMT
Just thought about this while watching Safari (1956) today. He was a great fit for thosee Technicolor adventure movies and film noirs. But he seems have a poor reputation compared to other popular actors from that period. I remember a quote where even he poked fun at himself, saying he's a professional golfer or something like that. Love his quote: "Actually, I'm not much of an actor, ask anyone especially the critics" but I did enjoy some of his perfomances--He reportedly made a fortune in Real Estate so acting eventually became just a secondary thing |
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Post by politicidal on Jan 14, 2018 2:02:35 GMT
Just thought about this while watching Safari (1956) today. He was a great fit for thosee Technicolor adventure movies and film noirs. But he seems have a poor reputation compared to other popular actors from that period. I remember a quote where even he poked fun at himself, saying he's a professional golfer or something like that. Love his quote: "Actually, I'm not much of an actor, ask anyone especially the critics" but I did enjoy some of his perfomances--He reportedly made a fortune in Real Estate so acting eventually became just a secondary thing Yeah Ben Johnson ( Wagon Master) did the same thing. Wound up worth $100M or something crazy. |
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 14, 2018 7:00:00 GMT
Opposite some heavyweight performers in THE ROBE, Mature as 'Demetrius' more than held his own.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 14, 2018 7:21:03 GMT
Ha Vincent Price said he was the biggest coward and insisted on stunt men for everything.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 14, 2018 10:27:57 GMT
Ha Vincent Price said he was the biggest coward and insisted on stunt men for everything. Well I wouldn't want to wrestle a lion either. FWIW on the set of the Combat TV series Rick Jason, (WWII combat veteran in the Air Force) insisted a scene where his character walks on a platform a few inches off the ground was a "stunt", and he refused to shoot it until it had been reblocked. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 14, 2018 10:36:13 GMT
Love his quote: "Actually, I'm not much of an actor, ask anyone especially the critics" but I did enjoy some of his perfomances--He reportedly made a fortune in Real Estate so acting eventually became just a secondary thing Yeah Ben Johnson ( Wagon Master) did the same thing. Wound up worth $100M or something crazy. I think you're confusing Ben Johnson with Fess Parker Another way Vic made money was illustrated by his behavior on the location for After The Fox. He did all his drinking in his hotel room and waved at the cast and crew from his balcony (so he wouldn't have to buy them drinks in the bar) VM actually steals ATF from Peter Sellers, which did not make the latter happy at all. And IMHO any guy who would do Head w/The Monkees can't be all bad.(wait, that doesn't sound right...) |
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 14, 2018 12:53:31 GMT
Best - My Darling Clementine
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 15, 2018 13:54:18 GMT
...decent enough in his early career...later though, he became a caricature of himself...
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Post by teleadm on Jan 15, 2018 18:32:41 GMT
 Sending up his old movie persona in After the Fox 1966 |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2018 2:53:54 GMT
There was an IMDb-1 CFB regular who was Victor Mature's biggest fan and was perhaps even related to him ... cannot recall just who it was though. Anyone remember ?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 18, 2018 17:39:17 GMT
He's in a lot of great movies.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 18, 2018 18:00:48 GMT
More trivia about perhaps my least favorite actor: Before Charlton Heston, Victor Mature dominated the "biblical epic" genre, starring in Samson and Delilah (1949), The Robe (1953) , and Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) He attributed his success in Biblical spectacles to his ability to "make with the holy look." Making use of his powerful physique, he became associated with "beefcake" scenes involving bondage and torture. In "Samson and Delilah" (1949) he was blinded and forced to turn a gristmill. In "The Robe" (1953) he suffered while stretched out on a torture-table inside a Roman dungeon. In "Zarak" (1957) he endured two separate floggings. In "Timbuktu" (1959) he found himself staked out, spreadeagle style, under a dangling tarantula. In Zarak (1956) he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death . [When asked if it bothered him to play Samson's father in a TV-movie remake (Samson and Delilah (1984)) of his early film, 35 years earlier, in 1949 (Samson and Delilah (1949)) in which he played Samson, he answered] If the money's right, I'd play his mother! |
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Post by teleadm on Jan 18, 2018 19:20:05 GMT
 Victor, the old golfer |
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Post by telegonus on Jan 19, 2018 11:52:16 GMT
I always liked Victor Mature. He was in a lot of films shown on the NBC weekly TV showcase Saturday Night At The Movies. His looks, physically, I mean,--the guy was huge--put him over. Still, he could be strangely touching when given something simple to do and doing a good job at it.
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