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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics. If you`re so concerned about fucking privacy, don`t become a fucking actor! I`m no actor, and I`ve got 64 pictures to prove it. When asked if it bothered him playing Samson`s father in a TV remake of his own "Samson and Delilah" (Samson and Delilah (1984) (TV)): If the money`s right I`d play his mother!Trivia Although several sources suggest that Mature`s family name was originally Maturi, United States and Austrian birth, immigration, census and other records, as well as Victor Mature himself, are quite clear that as of 1877, the family name was Mature. Applying for membership in the swank Los Angeles Country Club at the heighth of his fame, Mature was turned down and told that the golfing facility did not accept actors as members. His response: "I`m not an actor - and I`ve got 67 films to prove it!" Attended the Kentucky Military Academy. One of his classmates was future fellow actor, Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell III in "Gilligan`s Island" (1964)). He attributed his success in Biblical spectacles to his ability to "make with the holy look." He was a petty officer in the Coast Guard during World War II. He served on the troop transport ship Admiral Mayo. His service carried him to the North Atlantic, including Normandy, the Mediterranean, Caribbean and many islands in the South Pacific. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan. He was a Republican. In Zarak (1956) he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death. Was color-blind. | ||
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