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3 unusual facts about Rory Calhoun


Rory Calhoun

At age thirteen, he stole a revolver, for which he was sent to the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, California.

Calhoun's second cousin is popular sports talk show host Bob McCown.

In 1957, Calhoun formed a production company with Victor Orsatti they named Rorvic to make and star in the films The Hired Gun, The Domino Kid and Apache Territory.


Barbara Stuart

In 1960, Stuart appeared as the legendary gambler Poker Alice in three episodes of the CBS-Desilu western series The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.

Death Valley Days

Alternate hosts and titles included Frontier Adventure (Dale Robertson), The Pioneers (Will Rogers, Jr.), Trails West (Ray Milland), Western Star Theatre (Rory Calhoun) and Call of the West (John Payne).

Tarryall Creek

In 1955, Rory Calhoun, later of the CBS western television series, The Texan, and actress Julie Adams co-starred in the film The Looters, the story of a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains.


see also

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

During the Mexican Civil War of 1913, mercenary Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) and his Lewis machine gun he names ("La Cucaracha") joins a band of revolutionaries headed by Colonel Juan Castro (Gilbert Roland).