Victor Jory
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Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
After a rough-and-tumble adolescence, Victor Jory attended high school in California, studying acting with Gilmor Brown at the Pasadena Playhouse. Jory's subsequent tenure at the University of California lasted all of one year before he was bitten by wanderlust; he joined the coast guard, where he distinguished himself as a champion in several contact sports. Sharp-featured, muscular, and possessed of a rich theatrical voice, Jory made his New York stage bow in 1929, and one year later co-starred in the original Broadway production of Berkeley Square. Inaugurating his film career with Renegades (1930), Jory spent the next five decades in roles ranging from romantic leads to black-hearted villains. Highlights in his screen career include a sinister but strangely beautiful performance as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); the vicious Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); white-trash carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone With the Wind (1939); Texas patriot William Travis in Man of Conquest (1939); the hissable, crippled patriarch in The Fugitive Kind (1960); the taciturn father of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962); and the ancient South American Indian chief in Papillon (1973). In 1940, Jory starred in the Columbia serial The Shadow (1940), essaying the dual role of the mind-clouding Shadow and his alter ego Lamont Cranston (with several disguise sequences along the way). The outspoken Jory was supremely confident of his talents, remarking on several occasions that he was "damn good" -- though he was tougher than any movie critic in assessing his lesser performances. He was also more than generous with young up-and-coming actors (except for self-involved "method" performers), and was a veritable fountain of Broadway and Hollywood anecdotes, some of which were actually true. An occasional theatrical director and playwright, Jory wrote the Broadway production Five Who Were Mad. On TV, Jory starred in the popular syndicated detective series Manhunt (1959-1960) and guested on dozens of other programs. Long married to actress Jean Innes, Victor Jory was the father of Jon Jory, who for many years was artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Man Who Turned To Stone |
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— | 2013 |
78% | Maryam |
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— | 2002 |
43% | The Mountain Men |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Jacob's Challenge |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Sodom and Gomorrah |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Tower of Babel |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Story of Esther |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Daniel and Nebachadnezzar |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Man Who Talks with Whales |
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— | 1976 |
79% | Papillon |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Frasier, the Sensuous Lion |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Flap |
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— | 1970 |
20% | MacKenna's Gold |
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— | 1969 |
40% | A Time for Dying |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Jigsaw |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Ride the Wind |
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— | 1966 |
60% | Cheyenne Autumn |
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— | 1964 |
96% | The Miracle Worker |
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— | 1962 |
53% | The Fugitive Kind |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Death of a Scoundrel |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Manfish |
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— | 1956 |
0% | Valley of the Kings |
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— | 1954 |
33% | Cat-Women of the Moon |
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— | 1953 |
100% | Man From the Alamo |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Sabaka |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Son of Ali Baba |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Cave of Outlaws |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The Cariboo Trail |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Capture |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Fighting Man of the Plains |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | South of St. Louis |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Canadian Pacific |
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— | 1949 |
43% | A Woman's Secret |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Loves of Carmen |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Tubby the Tuba |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Hoppy's Holiday |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | The Kansan,(Wagon Wheels) |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | The Leather Burners |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Bar 20 |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Colt Comrades |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Hoppy Serves a Writ |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Power of the Press |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Buckskin Frontier |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Charlie Chan in Rio |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Riders of the Timberline |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Wide Open Town |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Border Vigilantes |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Lady with Red Hair |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | The Green Archer |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | The Shadow |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Light of Western Stars |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | River's End |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Knights of the Range |
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— | 1940 |
91% | Gone With the Wind |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | I Stole A Million |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Each Dawn I Die |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Susannah of the Mounties |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Man of Conquest |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Women in the Wind |
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— | 1939 |
100% | Dodge City |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Wings of the Navy |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | First Lady |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Bulldog Drummond at Bay |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Rangle River (Men with Whips) |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The King Steps Out |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Meet Nero Wolfe |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Hell-Ship Morgan |
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— | 1936 |
91% | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | Streamline Express |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | Mills of the Gods |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Madame Du Barry |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | He Was Her Man |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | My Woman |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | I Loved You Wednesday |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Sailor's Luck |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | State Fair |
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— | 1933 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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No Score Yet |
Kung Fu
1972-1975
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No Score Yet |
The High Chaparral
1967-1971
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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