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Rory Calhoun

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Rory Calhoun (1922–1999) was an American television and film actor, screenwriter, and producer best known for his roles in Westerns.

08-08-1922

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

80

Total Films

Francis Timothy McCown

Also known as (male)

Los Angeles, California, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

80 Works

producer

2 Works

director

3 Works

writer

1 Works

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Pure Country

Pure Country

Dusty Chandler is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search for a real music style as well as a real romance.
7.1

Year:

1992

Bad Jim

Bad Jim

A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.
7.3

Year:

1990

Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force

Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force

In the future, a warrior nun on roller skates must rescue a seer, who is to be sacrificed by a band of mutants.
4.0

Year:

1989

Hell Comes to Frogtown

Hell Comes to Frogtown

'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
5.5

Year:

1988

Half Nelson

Half Nelson

Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
0.0

Year:

1985

Avenging Angel

Avenging Angel

Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds herself pitted against an underworld of mob figures who might be more than she's bargained for...
5.1

Year:

1985

Angel

Angel

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
5.9

Year:

1984

Female Mud Wrestling Championships

Female Mud Wrestling Championships

The first International Female Mud Wrestling Championships presented at the Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas.
0.0

Year:

1981

Motel Hell

Motel Hell

Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
5.8

Year:

1980

Smokey and the Judge

Smokey and the Judge

Three bad girls go good in this Southern-fried treat from 1980. When Margo (Gwen Owens), Carol (Cathy Carson) and Maria (Juanita Curiel) get released from prison, they set their sights on R&B stardom, starting with a gig at a roadhouse bar in a rough-and-tumble desert town. As long as they can stay clear of a sleazy sheriff (Gene Price), a dirty-minded judge and a troublemaking parole officer, the buxom trio may just make it after all.
0.0

Year:

1980

The Main Event

The Main Event

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
5.2

Year:

1979

The Rebels

The Rebels

This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
0.0

Year:

1979

Revenge of Bigfoot

Revenge of Bigfoot

When an American Indian moves in with a friendly rancher, the local bigot tries to run him out of town, but Bigfoot gets in his way.
0.0

Year:

1979

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
5.0

Year:

1979

Mule Feathers

Mule Feathers

A drifter con artist, impersonating a parson, arrives in a small Wild West town with his mule and becomes embroiled in the lives of several townsfolk.
1.0

Year:

1977

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket.
3.5

Year:

1977

Flight to Holocaust

Flight to Holocaust

A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
5.8

Year:

1977

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
5.0

Year:

1977

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
4.1

Year:

1976

Night of the Lepus

Night of the Lepus

Rancher Cole Hillman is fed up of rabbits plaguing his fields. Zoologist Roy Bennett conducts an experiment to curb their population, but it gives rise to giant rabbits that terrorise the town.
4.4

Year:

1972

The Girl of the Nile

The Girl of the Nile

Adventurers endeavor to find a tomb that houses a legendary diamond.
7.0

Year:

1969

Dayton's Devils

Dayton's Devils

Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max (Hans Gudegast), sadistic killer Barney Barry (Barry Sadler), and failed French artist Claude (Pat Renella) in the scheme.
0.0

Year:

1968

Operation Cross Eagles

Operation Cross Eagles

War - In this thrilling war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general being held in a German fortress. "Operation Cross Eagles" is a story of suspense and intrigue that will have you on the edge of your seat one moment and blast you back the next. - Richard Conte, Rory Calhoun, Aili King
5.2

Year:

1968

Operation Delilah

Operation Delilah

A couple try to help the residents of a small Caribbean island overthrow a dictator.
6.0

Year:

1967

Our Men in Bagdad

Our Men in Bagdad

The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the countries rich oil resources. The USSR sent a team of their best secret agents to rob the document, so that later they can apprehend the ship which must pass through one of the Russian ports... After special training in a secret island in the Black Sea, Alex, Sadov and Sonia are sent in to get the documents. All goes according to plan, and Sadov gives the handbag to the mastermind, General Fiodorenko. On opening it though, the handbag explodes. Who is the infiltrated agent in the most secret of the Soviets secret ring?
0.0

Year:

1966

Apache Uprising

Apache Uprising

Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
6.4

Year:

1965

Black Spurs

Black Spurs

A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
6.0

Year:

1965

Finger on the Trigger

Finger on the Trigger

At the end of the Civil War, a ragtag group of just-discharged Union soldiers clashes with a band of renegade Confederates over a golden treasure hidden in a deserted town in the Oklahoma Territory. Soon these rivals must make common cause in the face of an Indian attack.
4.8

Year:

1965

Young Fury

Young Fury

A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. The leader's father is an infamous ex-gunfighter, and he straps his guns on one more time.
5.4

Year:

1964

The Gun Hawk

The Gun Hawk

When his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring gunslinger, when the sheriff tries to arrest him.
4.2

Year:

1963

The Young and the Brave

The Young and the Brave

A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South. Along the way they are aided by a young Korean boy and his adopted dog, a US trained German Shepherd named Lobo.
5.8

Year:

1963

A Face in the Rain

A Face in the Rain

An American spy hides in an apartment. But the woman who lives there is herself the mistress of a German Officer.
0.0

Year:

1963

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.
7.2

Year:

1962

Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
4.2

Year:

1962

The Treasure of Monte Cristo

The Treasure of Monte Cristo

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patricia Bredin) on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.
4.0

Year:

1961

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
6.0

Year:

1961

Thunder in Carolina

Thunder in Carolina

A stock-car veteran (Rory Calhoun) teaches a grease monkey to race in the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C.
4.0

Year:

1960

The Saga of Hemp Brown

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
5.6

Year:

1958

Apache Territory

Apache Territory

Logan Cates sets out to rescue a white woman captured by Apache Indians and prevent a war. On the way he is joined by a few civilians and a small band of soldiers at a water hole. They are ambushed and laid siege to by Apache. As their food and water supplies dwindle a storm arrives which enables Cates to put an escape plan into action.
6.4

Year:

1958

Ride Out for Revenge

Ride Out for Revenge

When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
5.5

Year:

1957

Domino Kid

Domino Kid

A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.
5.7

Year:

1957

The Hired Gun

The Hired Gun

A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
5.5

Year:

1957

The Big Caper

The Big Caper

A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
6.2

Year:

1957

Utah Blaine

Utah Blaine

Western about Calhoun helping to overcome land-grabbing outlaws.
6.6

Year:

1957

Flight to Hong Kong

Flight to Hong Kong

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.
6.6

Year:

1956

Raw Edge

Raw Edge

A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother
5.8

Year:

1956

Red Sundown

Red Sundown

When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between small farmers and a local cattle baron. And he has a pretty daughter. So Longmire decides to stay and see if he can use his expertise with firearms for good.
6.1

Year:

1956

Hot Cargo

Hot Cargo

After marrying the captain of a tramp steamer in Hong Kong, a barmaid falls in love with a harbor policeman, but her frustration with her meager life leads her to contemplate a quicker way to the wealthy life.
0.0

Year:

1956

The Spoilers

The Spoilers

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
4.8

Year:

1955

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
5.8

Year:

1955

Day is Done

Day is Done

During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the road.
6.0

Year:

1955

Ain't Misbehavin'

Ain't Misbehavin'

Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
5.0

Year:

1955

The Looters

The Looters

A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors--and also find $250,000 in cash among the debris.
5.6

Year:

1955

Four Guns to the Border

Four Guns to the Border

A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
4.5

Year:

1954

A Bullet Is Waiting

A Bullet Is Waiting

A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.
6.0

Year:

1954

Dawn at Socorro

Dawn at Socorro

Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
7.2

Year:

1954

The Yellow Tomahawk

The Yellow Tomahawk

When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
6.0

Year:

1954

River of No Return

River of No Return

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
6.7

Year:

1954

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
6.8

Year:

1953

Powder River

Powder River

Ex-marshal Chino Bull has hung up his guns until his prospecting partner is shot dead. Chino then takes over as the law in town, forming a friendship with gun-man Mitch Hardin and making enemies of the Logan brothers. When Hardin' girl from the east arrives, he makes her pretty unwelcome - as does his new flame, saloon owner Frenchie.
6.2

Year:

1953

The Silver Whip

The Silver Whip

Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuades his boss to give Jess the stage driver job.
6.4

Year:

1953

Way of a Gaucho

Way of a Gaucho

In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.
5.6

Year:

1952

With a Song in My Heart

With a Song in My Heart

Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.
5.9

Year:

1952

Meet Me After the Show

Meet Me After the Show

A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.
5.0

Year:

1951

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
6.6

Year:

1951

Rogue River

Rogue River

The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy was in on the scheme.
0.0

Year:

1951

County Fair

County Fair

"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding. Unfortunately, Loretta mistakenly places the bet on the wrong horse. When she discovers her error she tries to get the cashier to exchange the ticket for the horse she wanted, but the cashier refuses. Peter Brennan, standing in back of her in line, buys the ticket for the horse Loretta wants and then exchanges it with her. It turns out that Peter is from a wealthy family that owns racehorses, and Peter is a horse trainer himself. He soon begins to fall for Loretta, and Tommy doesn't like it one bit. Complications ensue.
0.0

Year:

1950

Return of the Frontiersman

Return of the Frontiersman

A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the real killer.
4.4

Year:

1950

A Ticket to Tomahawk

A Ticket to Tomahawk

A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.
5.8

Year:

1950

Sand

Sand

Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff Keane, who loses his prize stallion in a train accident. While the stallion roams wild and free, Keane enlists the aid of rancher Joan Hartley (Coleen Gray) in searching for the animal. Once the horse is located, it is clear that it has developed a mean streak, the result of various cruelties inflicted upon it by humans. Jeff and Joan combine their efforts to regain the horse's friendship. Veteran Native American actors Iron Eyes Cody and Jay Silverheels make significant supporting appearances. Sand was attractively filmed in Technicolor on location in Colorado.
4.5

Year:

1949

Massacre River

Massacre River

Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
6.2

Year:

1949

Miraculous Journey

Miraculous Journey

The passengers and crew of an airplane are stranded in an unfamiliar jungle. Unknown to most of the survivors is a criminal among them who caused the crash.
4.7

Year:

1948

That Hagen Girl

That Hagen Girl

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
5.2

Year:

1947

Adventure Island

Adventure Island

Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
4.7

Year:

1947

The Red House

The Red House

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
6.2

Year:

1947

The Great John L.

The Great John L.

Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
5.0

Year:

1945

Where Do We Go from Here?

Where Do We Go from Here?

Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
5.3

Year:

1945

The Bullfighters

The Bullfighters

Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
5.8

Year:

1945

Something for the Boys

Something for the Boys

The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
6.2

Year:

1944