Victor Mature Movies

victor-mature-1Want to know the best Victor Mature movies?  How about the worst Victor Mature movies?  Curious about Donald Crisp box office grosses or which Victor Mature movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Victor Mature movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Victor Mature (1913-1999) was an American stage, film and television actor. His IMDb page shows 54 acting from 1939-1984. This page ranks Victor Mature movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. 

Drivel part:  This page comes from requests by Søren, Bob, Frank and Marcel.  We figured since he was getting so many requests it was way past time to finally give Mr. Mature his very own UMR page.  Drivel part 2:  Recently we wrote an UMR page that asked Who Is The Next Marlon Brando?  Well after doing this page….it seems that adding …Sylvester Stallone is the next Victor Mature.

Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah
Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah

Victor Mature Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Victor Mature Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Victor Mature movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Victor Mature movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Victor Mature movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Victor Mature movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Victor Mature movie received.
  • Sort Victor Mature movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Victor Mature Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Richard Widmark and Victor Mature in 1947’s Kiss of Death

Possibly Interesting Facts About Victor Mature

1. Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1913.

2. Victor Mature briefly sold candy and operated a restaurant before moving to California to study and act at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.

3. For three years Victor Mature lived in a tent in the backyard of Mrs Willigan, a mother of a fellow student, Catherine Lewis.  It was during a performance at Pasadena Community Playhouse that Mature was discovered and signed to a movie contract by Hal Roach.

4.  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, the Mediterranean, Caribbean and many islands in the South Pacific. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan.

5. In Joel Hirschhorn’s Rating The Movie Stars book….he rated 410 stars…..from Best to Worst…the good news is Victor Mature made the book…the bad news is he was rated as the 382nd best star.

6. Victor Mature’s star on the Walk Of Fame is located at 6780 Hollywood Blvd.

7. Victor Mature was married five times…..he had one daughter.

8.  Could not find box office information on two Victor Mature movies….but this is their critic/audience rating:  1957’s Pickup Alley 57.50% and 1957’s The Long Haul 60.50%

Check out Victor Mature’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Steve Lensman’s Victor Mature You Tube Video

 

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45 thoughts on “Victor Mature Movies”

  1. 1 When I was growing up in the 1950s Peck, Brando and Jimmy Stewart were probably my favourite “dramatic” idols and most likely my top action heroes were Wayne. Widmark, Glenn Ford, Laddie and Vic Mature just as more recent audiences would follow the likes of Arnie and Sly

    2 I spend a large part of the 1950s viewing Mature films and therefore like to see the greatest possible accuracy applied to any discussion about, or written coverage of, Mature’s movies. I am also a great fan of this site and although perfection is impossible I want to see the site achieve the maximum perfection that such a vast detailed site can. Therefore anybody who has read any of my references to Mature’ page will know my meaning when I quote “Encouraged now to live in a world to their liking at last.”

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  2. HI STEVE
    1 As I indicated in my post of 21 Nov 16 on this page side by side with Mature’s brawny tough-guy persona was a sense of humour that allowed him to send himself up at times. Another example of that was when he was interviewed and the interviewer asked him if in his famous fight with the lion in Samson and Delilah an animal tamer come stuntman had for example been used as his stand-in and replying tongue in cheek that he had personally fought the lion Victor added “But it was an elderly lion I had all its teeth extracted first.”

    2 Vic had such an imposing presence that he was a gift to poster artists [they didn’t have to superimpose muscles the way they did in some Alan Ladd posters!]. Accordingly your own fine range of posters did not disappoint and I mention almost randomly those for Safari, The Last Frontier, and Song of the Islands and definitely single out the very exceptional ones for The Egyptian. For my money the best stills were the one from Shanghai Gesture, the crucifixion sequence in The Robe, the two with Hedy Lamarr** and the astonishing one from One Million Years BC.

    3 **They say that eventually everything evens out and so it is that El Commandant who gives too much credit to Myrna Loy for other people’s movies continues on the other hand to refuse to cite top-billed Hedy Lamarr as Vic’s Delilah and instead persistently credits that role to Angela Lansbury who was in the supporting role of Semadar in the movie. Maybe when he sees your fine posters for the movie he’ll remedy matters!

    4 Anyway you and he are agreed in just a slightly different order about Vic’s entire Top 5. If ever I give less than a 9.4/10 to a video with the consistently high standard of art work that’s in this one you may freely conclude that senility is setting in. Well done on your ‘comeback’.

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    1. “Your arms were quicksand. Your kiss was death. The name Delilah will be an everlasting curse on the lips of men. ”

      Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating and trivia, always appreciated. The above quote from Samson and Delilah contains the words ‘Kiss’ and ‘Death’ which reminds me of the title of another famous Victor Mature film and the 2nd highest rated film on his top 30 video.

      Glad you liked the stills and posters, he resembles Sylvester Stallone a bit, especially the eyes. Nice to know Brawny Vic had a healthy sense of humour. I haven’t seen After the Fox and the poster makes me curious to seek it out and see him in a comedy with Peter Sellers and Bond girl Britt Ekland, Sellers wife at the time.

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      2. Hey Steve….good movie quote….I just watched and commented on your Victor Mature video…not to mention your Mickey Rooney brand new video. I also want to see After The Fox…..one day I will track that one down.

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    2. Hey Bob….good review on Steve’s Mature video…..I have always thought Sly Stallone was the Victor Mature of our time. I just saw The Last Frontier with Mature….and he reminded of Sly so many times…I thought I was watching a Stallone movie and not a Mature movie.

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      1. HI BRUCE

        1 Vic was never renowned for his acting ability but rather for his “he man” roles but personally I think he was a cut above Stallone as an actor.

        2 I have mentioned before on this site that Sly reportedly had plans to remake A Streetcar Named Desire with himself in the Stanley role but Tennessee Williams took the unusual step of writing to him to warn him that he would make a fool of himself if he proceeded. Sly made a statement expressing resentment at Williams’ interference but it would seem that he may have taken the advice for the project never materialised at least in the cinemas.

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        1. Hey Bob….I can easily see that (talking about comment #1)….Sly vs Victor….hmmmm….Sly’s two acting Oscar nominations might give him the edge.

          Sly as Stanley….thankfully that project fell through…that would have been brutal….lol.
          🙂

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  3. Cogerson

    I think Victor Mature’s career should not be discussed without mentioning the movie which made him a star, and an undying legend, One Million B. C. Vic was young and ripped as the cave man Tumak, and Carole Landis looked great in her fur one-piece as the cave-girl Loana, even if the real stars of this film were Ignatz and Rumsford.

    I am not certain if you are among the cognoscenti about such things, but Iggy and Rummy were slurpasaurs. A slurpasaur was a small lizard or perhaps a baby alligator fitted with fins and horns and blown up to giant proportions through trick photography to play dinosaurs in grade Z movies. None ever did a better job of putting on a grand fight than Iggy and Rummy. Too realistic perhaps.

    Now you might be asking–cave men and dinosaurs together? Be picky if you want, but Iggy and Rummy were so striking that they popped up in grade Z lost world film into the 1970’s, and not just in America. They were world stars featured in Japanese and Mexican “epics” as well.

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    1. Hey John….I agree One Million B.C. got Mr. Mature noticed…even if it did not do very well at the box office. Gotta admit I am clueless when it comes to Ignatz and Rumsford. They must not have been in The Land Before Time….lol. Good information on Iggy and Rummy. Plus they had D.W. Griffith hanging around and helping out with that movie.

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  4. Hi

    Although it’s not highly rated by many critics I’ve always liked Samson and Delilah. But I think Mature’s best performance was in My Darling Clementine. I think he proved that he could really act. He was also very good in Kiss of Death. I think his whole look and frame suited film noir. It would be interesting to know how many young people know him today apart from maybe Samson and Delilah.

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    1. Hey Chris….I would say most people would agree with you….Samson and Delilah was a monster hit…loved by audiences but despised by critics…the Armageddon of our time? I have not seen Kiss of Death (I know I am ashamed too) but I would say it along with My Darling Clementine are his most respected movies. Not thinking too many young people are very aware of Mr. Mature….I wonder if that will be the case with Sly Stallone in 2066? As always….greatly appreciate your comment.

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    1. Hey Dan….you might be correct…lol. Head is a pretty interesting movie….and seeing Jack Nicholson popping up every once in awhile is pretty interesting too….thanks for the comment.

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