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" Rory Calhoun Biography"
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 and a second star for his work in television.
Starlet Lana Turner attended a film premiere with Calhoun very early in his career. Calhoun's agent, Henry
Wilson, 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". After that, the photos of Calhoun and Turner caused a sensation.
In 1955, Wilson 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
Wilson client. The story in Confidential did not harm Calhoun's bad boy image or his career. That same year, Calhoun portrayed "Alexander McNamara" in the fifth movie version of Rex Beach's 1906 novel The Spoilers, a role played earlier by Noah Beery (1923) and Randolph Scott (1942).