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Acting

Rory Calhoun

Career: Active from 1945 to 1992, with up to 5 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 58
top three billing

Average score: 56/100

Highest rated: How to Marry a Millionaire
75/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 70 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Rory Calhoun Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.6, average 5.4
Psychological
4.1, average 5.5
Family Dynamics
3.7, average 4.8
Pathos
4.2, average 5.3

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 10
Frontier Justice 6
Western 6
Historical Drama 5
Historical Setting 5
Moral Dilemma 3
1950s Cinema 3
Redemption 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Good vs Evil 3
Native American Conflict 3
Action 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

114

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

2 titles · average score 48

Pure Country

59

as Ernest Tucker

Bad Jim

38

as Sam Harper

1980s

11 titles · average score 57

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Spider

Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force

34

as Old Turkel

Hell Comes to Frogtown

53

as Lonnie “Looney Tunes” O’Toole

Avenging Angel

37

as Kit Carson

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

74

TV show · as Jimmie Thurson

Angel

54

as Kit Carson

Capitol

TV show

The Blue and the Gray

71

TV show · as George Meade

Female Mud Wrestling Championships

as Coach

Motel Hell

61

as Vincent Smith

Smokey and the Judge

as Matt Polsky

1970s

20 titles · average score 57

Revenge of Bigfoot

as Bob Spence

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

51

as Farmer

Hart to Hart

60

TV show · as Jim Bailey

Fantasy Island

43

TV show · as Mr. Watson

Mule Feathers

as Bonaparte Shelby

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

as Len Thompson

Starsky & Hutch

78

TV show · as Steve Hanson

Police Woman

43

TV show

Petrocelli

72

TV show · as Edgar Richardson

Police Story

72

TV show

Night of the Lepus

27

as Cole Hillman

Alias Smith and Jones

48

TV show

1960s

26 titles · average score 61

Dayton's Devils

as Mike Page

Operation Cross Eagles

as Sgt. Sean McAfee

Operation Delilah

as Rory

Apache Uprising

60

as Jim Walker

Black Spurs

60

as Santee

Young Fury

56

as Clint McCoy

The Gun Hawk

55

as Blaine Madden

The Young and the Brave

58

as MSgt. Ed Brent (escaped POW)

Marco Polo

48

as Marco Polo

The Colossus of Rhodes

53

as Darios

The Secret of Monte Cristo

as Captain Adam Corbett

Thunder in Carolina

58

as Mitch Cooper

1950s

45 titles · average score 61

The Texan

68

TV show · Producer

The Hired Gun

58

as Gil McCord

The Big Caper

57

as Frank Harper

Ain't Misbehavin'

as Kenneth Post

Shotgun

42

Writer

River of No Return

61

as Harry Weston

Four Guns to the Border

55

as Cully

A Bullet Is Waiting

47

as Ed Stone

How to Marry a Millionaire

75

as Eben

Way of a Gaucho

57

as Martin Penalosa

With a Song in My Heart

60

as John Burn

A Ticket to Tomahawk

54

as Dakota

1940s

10 titles · average score 59

Massacre River

63

as Phil Acton

Sand

as Chick Palmer

Miraculous Journey

as Larry Burke

That Hagen Girl

57

as Ken Freneau

The Red House

74

as Teller

Adventure Island

51

as Herrick

The Bullfighters

52

as El Brillante - Disgusted Matador (uncredited)

Where Do We Go from Here?

55

as Soldier Leaving Canteen (uncredited)

The Great John L.

as James J. 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett

Something for the Boys

59

as Soldier (uncredited)