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Rory Calhoun
Birth name	Francis Timothy McCown Durgin
Born	August 8, 1922 Los Angeles, Ca.
Died	April 28, 1999 Burbank, Ca.
Other name(s)	"Smoky"
Years active	1941-1993
Spouse(s)	1948-1970: Lita Baron 1971-1999: Sue Rhodes
Notable roles	How to Marry A Millionaire as Eben

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 that, the photos of Calhoun and Turner caused a sensation.

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. 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).

Calhoun was also mentioned by villain Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons television series, in the episode titled "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds," in which he is referred to as the man who is always "standing and walking."

Adventure Island
Original film poster - 1947

• Sundown (1941)
• Something for the Boys (1944)
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
• The Bullfighters (1945)
• Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
• The Great John L. (1945)
• Nob Hill (1945)
• The Red House (1947)
• Adventure Island (1947)
• That Hagen Girl (1947)
• Miraculous Journey (1948)
• Massacre River (1949)
• Sand (1949)
• A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
• Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
• County Fair (1950)
• Rogue River (1951)
• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
• Meet Me After the Show (1951)
• With a Song in My Heart (1952)
• Way of a Gaucho (1952)
• The Silver Whip (1953)
• Powder River (1953)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• River of No Return (1954)
• The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
• Dawn at Socorro (1954)
• A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
• Four Guns to the Border (1954)
• Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
• The Looters (1955)
• The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
• The Spoilers (1955)
• Raw Edge (1956)
• Red Sundown (1956)
• Flight to Hong Kong (1956)
• Utah Blaine (1957)
• The Big Caper (1957)
• The Hired Gun (1957)
• Domino Kid (1957)
• Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
• The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
• Apache Territory (1958)
• Thunder in Carolina (1960)
• Marco Polo (1961)
• The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
• The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961)
• Face in the Rain (1963)
• The Gun Hawk (1963)
• The Young and the Brave (1963)
• Young Fury (1965)
• Finger on the Trigger (1965)
• Black Spurs (1965)
• Apache Uprising (1966)
• Our Men in Bagdad (1966)
• Operation Delilah (1967)
• Operation Cross Eagles (1968)
• The Girl of the Nile (1969)
• Las Virgenes de la nueva ola (1969)
• Night of the Lepus (1972)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• Mule Feathers (1977)
• Mission to Glory: A True Story (1977)
• Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1977)
• Bitter Heritage (1979)
• Revenge of Bigfoot (1979)
• The Main Event (1979)
• Smokey and the Judge (1980)
• Runnin' Hot (1980)
• Motel Hell (1980)
• Angel (1984)
• Avenging Angel (1985)
• Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987)
• Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989)
• Bad Jim (1990)
• Pure Country (1992)

• Rory Calhoun at the Internet Movie Database

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