Rory Calhoun was a well-known American film and TV actor. He started his career as an actor, but later donned many hats - screenwriter, producer, author etc. Rory’s life changed when a Hollywood agent, Sue Carol, got him an audition at the ‘20th Century-Fox’. He was noticed by Alan Ladd, husband of Sue, when Rory was riding a horse in a Los Angeles park, and informed Sue about the same. He appeared in over 80 films and more than a thousand television episodes of several shows. He appeared in movies like ‘Adventure Island’ (1947), ‘Miraculous Journey’ (1948), ‘Massacre River’ (1949), ‘Fair County’ (1950), ‘With a Song in My Heart’ (1952), ‘The Silver Whip’ (1953), ‘How to Marry a Millionaire’ (1953), ‘Four Guns to the Border’ (1954), ‘The Looters’ (1955), ‘Red Sundown’ (1956), ‘Flight to Hong Kong’ (1956) and many more. Rory appeared in television shows including ‘Zane Grey Theatre’ (1956), ‘The Texan’ (1960), ‘Death Valley Days’ (1960), ‘Hawaii Five-O’ (1968), ‘Starsky and Hutch’ (1975), ‘Gilligan’s Island’ (1964) etc. His last movie ‘Pure Country’ was released in 1992.
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