Such was the case with Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah, when Mature refused to wrestle the lion, though the lion was tame and toothless.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Richard Burton is judged as the Worst Actor of All Time over nominees John Agar, Tony Curtis and Victor Mature.

* August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor ( b. 1913 )

Marcellus ' Greek slave ( played by Victor Mature ) guides him as a spiritual teacher, and his wife ( played by Jean Simmons ) follows his lead, although it will mean both their deaths.

Laura was adapted as a radio play for two episodes of Lux Radio Theater, the first starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Vincent Price ( February 5, 1945 ), the second starring Gene Tierney and Victor Mature ( February 1, 1954 ).

It features an ensemble cast including Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, and others.

* Victor Mature as Dr. John Henry " Doc " Holliday

There was a sequel known as Demetrius and the Gladiators starring Victor Mature as the title character who fights in the Roman arena.

The Egyptian ( 1954 ) ( based on Mika Waltari's novel about Sinuhe ) for Fox starring Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Gene Tierney.

* The 1955 movie Violent Saturday, with Victor Mature and Lee Marvin, was filmed in and around Bisbee, and shows many scenes of downtown Bisbee.

The first film that Brown and the band appeared in was Seven Days ' Leave starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball.

After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.

In the sequel, they were only briefly seen in a flashback, as the focus shifted to Demetrius ( Victor Mature ), third-billed in The Robe.

* Chief Crazy Horse ( film ), a 1955 western movie starring Victor Mature

A character named Samson was featured in a series of 5 Italian sword-and-sandal films in the 1960s, no doubt inspired by the 1959 re-release of the epic Victor Mature film " Samson and Delilah ".

* Hannibal ( 1959 ) Victor Mature

* Hannibal ( 1959 ) Victor Mature

* Tartars, The ( 1961 ) Victor Mature

The 1940s saw a rise in shirtless shots of such handsome stars as Tyrone Power, Guy Madison, Sterling Hayden and Victor Mature ; and in the 1950s movie magazines began running swimsuit shots of actors such as Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Jeff Chandler, Robert Conrad and Robert Wagner almost as frequently as they would of actresses.

In the trading post scene, Cheyenne slides Harmonica's gun down the bar to him, challenging him to shoot – much like Morgan Earp ( Ward Bond ) sliding his weapon to brother Wyatt ( Henry Fonda ) in the Ford film when the Earps meet Doc Holiday ( Victor Mature ) for the first time.

She followed this film with No, No, Nanette ( 1940 ) with Victor Mature, in which she sang " Tea For Two ".

* Victor Mature in My Darling Clementine, in 1946, directed by John Ford, with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp.

Writer Alan Barra's comment on this movie is that it shows Holliday as he might have been, if he had been a tough-guy from Boston: " Victor Mature looks about as tubercular as a Kodiak bear.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

* 2004 – Victor Argo, American actor ( b. 1934 )

* 1883 – Victor McLaglen, English-born American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1984 – Victor Rasuk, American actor

* 1951 – Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor ( Village People )

* 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor

* 1891 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor ( d. 1976 )

* 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1929 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1970 – Victor Williams, American actor

** Victor Rasuk, American actor

** Victor Garber, Canadian actor

* November 23 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor ( d. 1982 )

** Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor ( b. 1891 )

* November 7 – Victor McLaglen, English actor ( b. 1886 )

* January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish actor ( b. 1879 )

** Victor Maddern, English actor ( d. 1993 )

* July 23 – Victor Moore, American actor ( b. 1876 )

* March 11 – Victor Kilian, American actor ( b. 1891 )

* January 1 – Victor Buono, American actor ( b. 1938 )

* February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor ( b. 1902 )

** Victor French, American actor and director ( b. 1934 )

* September 2 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor ( d. 2012 )