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Scourby first appeared on screen in two films with Glenn Ford, Affair in Trinidad ( Columbia, 1952 ) and The Big Heat ( Columbia, 1953 ).

He subsequently played a Greek officer in Korea in The Glory Brigade ( Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953 ) and St. Luke in The Silver Chalice ( Warner Brothers, 1954 ), and he again appeared with Glenn Ford in Ransom!

( MGM, 1956 ), later to be remade with Mel Gibson and Gary Sinise.

" None of the pictures I've done have been really important or very good ," Scourby later said, " with the exception-and it is debatable-of Giant ( Warner Brothers, 1956 ).

" In the film version of Edna Ferber's novel Scourby played Polo, the old Mexican ranch foreman.

He later had a role in The Big Fisherman ( Buena Vista, 1959 ).

During these extremely busy years, Scourby, who had been living with his wife and child in an apartment near Columbia University in New York City, bought a home in Beverly Hills, California.

Calls for Scourby to work in New York, however, soon made the Beverly Hills residence as much a commutation point as a home.