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Rory Calhoun was born Francis Timothy McCown in Los Angeles, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd McCown. Rory starred in over 80 films and 1,000 television episodes. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. Tall and handsome, he benefited from a screen test at 20th Century-Fox, arranged for him by Sue Carol, a Hollywood agent and the wife of actor Alan Ladd, who is said to have spotted Calhoun while he was riding a horse in a Los Angeles park. He debuted on screen in Something for the Boys (1944), with Carmen Miranda, billed as "Frank McCown". David O. Selznick changed his name to Rory Calhoun, and after playing small parts for a while, he graduated to starring in western films, including River of No Return (1954) with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. Calhoun's better-known pictures include How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Lauren Bacall, Monroe and Betty Grable, and With a Song in My Heart (1952) with Susan Hayward.

From 1959 to 1960 he starred in the CBS television series The Texan (1958). More than two decades later he returned to CBS for five years as Judge Judson Tyler on the daytime serial Capitol (1982). His final appearance, 70 years old but handsome as ever, was as Ernest Tucker in Pure Country (1992). Calhoun has two stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.

(1956) Unsold pilot: Made a pilot for an action/adventure/musical series set on a Mississippi riverboat in the 1870s called &quot;Uncle Charley&#39;s Showboat&quot; (aka &quot;Here Comes the Showboat&quot;) in which he played the captain of the titular vessel.

(1957) Unsold pilot: Made the pilot for a western series called, &quot;Marshal of Manitoba&quot; where he played a Canadian peace officer patrolling the Canadian-American border.

(1961) Unsold pilot: Starred in a pilot for a TV adventures series set in North Africa called &quot;Tangiers&quot;.

(11/10/48) Radio: &quot;Family Theater of the Air&quot;, ep. &quot;Little Lost Shepherd&quot;

(May 1957) Album: He and wife <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0056270/?ref_=nmwrk">Lita Baron</a> record an album called &quot;His and Hers&quot;.

(1969) Stage: Directed &quot;Hello, Dolly&quot; in London, England. in cast: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0002107/?ref_=nmwrk">Betty Grable</a>.

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