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Victor Mature
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Actor Born: January 29, 1915 in Louisville, KY Death: August 4, 1999 in Rancho Sante Fe, CA Biography:The first male film star to be officially labelled a "hunk," "Victor Mature" was the son of Swiss immigrants. When he arrived in California to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, Mature was so broke that he lived in a pup tent in a vacant lot and subsisted on canned sardines and chocolate bars. There was speculation amongst his fellow students that Mature's spartan lifestyle was deliberately engineered to draw publicity to himself; if so, the ploy worked, and by 1938 he'd been signed to a contract by producer "Hal Roach". Mature's first starring film role was as Tumack the caveman in Roach's "One Million BC" (1940), which enabled the fledgling actor to display his physique without being unduly encumbered by dialogue. While still under contract to Roach, Mature made his Broadway debut in the "Moss Hart"/"Kurt Weill" musical Lady in the Dark, playing a musclebound male model. In 1941, Mature was... Full Biography
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