Pinzolo, 1877
Victor Mature 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, and the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and many islands in the South Pacific. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan.
In "Zarak" (1956) he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death
Victor's father Marcello Gelindo Maturi, a knife sharpener, was born in 1877 in the town of Pinzolo, in the Italian region of Trentino which was then under the rule of Austria-Hungary, and returned under Italian sovereignty in 1918 after WW I. He emigrated to the US with his brothers in 1912, and settled in Louisville, Ky.
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!"
He attributed his success in Biblical spectacles to his ability to "make with the holy look."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001514/bio
In "Zarak" (1956) he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death
Victor's father Marcello Gelindo Maturi, a knife sharpener, was born in 1877 in the town of Pinzolo, in the Italian region of Trentino which was then under the rule of Austria-Hungary, and returned under Italian sovereignty in 1918 after WW I. He emigrated to the US with his brothers in 1912, and settled in Louisville, Ky.
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!"
He attributed his success in Biblical spectacles to his ability to "make with the holy look."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001514/bio
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