Mature was worried about the direction of his career at this stage, claiming, "nobody was going to believe I could do anything except grunt and groan. Martinez portrayed Victor on the Netflix series One Day at a Time from 2017 to 2019. "MOVIE PRODUCERS 'LURED' OVERSEAS: Foreign 'Pressures,' Including Subsidies, Basis for Trend, Actors' Spokesman Says" by THOMAS M. PRYOR . [citation needed]. [2][3][4][5] His wife, Iva Rifkin, owns a fashion design business. [41] It was not particularly popular, and Easy Living was a flop, but Samson and Delilah earned over $12 million during its original run, making it the most popular movie of the 1940s, and responsible for ushering in a cycle of spectacles set in the Ancient World. Martinez portrayed series regular Jorge Sanchez in Gravity on Starz in 2010. "MATURE WILL ACT IN HART MUSICAL: His Contract to Act Opposite Gertrude Lawrence Leads to Dispute With Group 'SUZANNA' TO PLAY SUNDAY Ten Shows Will Begin New Policy Weak Later--Additional Theatre News Engaged for Dennis King Show Maeterlinck Play Opens Dec. 15". Directed by Pamela Fryman. [3] An older brother, Marcellus Paul Mature, died of osteomyelitis in 1918 at age 11. [60][61] The Egyptian ended up starring Mature with Edmund Purdom and Michael Wilding, plus Bella Darvi; it was a box-office disappointment. As Hal Roach only made a handful of movies every year, he loaned out Mature's services to RKO, who used him as a leading man in the Anna Neagle–Herbert Wilcox musical, No, No, Nanette. Mature, I have not until now met a man who was 100 percent yellow.”[40]. "HOLLYWOOD ARENA: 'Big Circus' Troupe Works to Equal Big Top's Authenticity and Color" by THOMAS M. PRYOR HOLLYWOOD.. Kevin Thomas, 'Victor Mature Hits Stride'. performed under the pseudonym Hornets Attack Victor Mature. [33] His next film was the film noir, Kiss of Death, which had been developed specifically as a vehicle for him. In 1944, he did a series of War Bond tours and acted in morale shows. Harrington's children announced his death on January 6, 2016, aged 86. The following year, he performed in Baitz's Three Hotels, for which he received a second Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nomination. "Mature Arranges Pact With Borzage; Curtis Plans Matador Cinema" Schallert, Edwin. He was going to follow this with The Shanghai Gesture for Arnold Pressburger and Josef von Sternberg at United Artists.[21]. [10], Roach then put him in a swashbuckler set during the War of 1812, Captain Caution (1940).[11][12]. [17] Mature later described his role: First, this secretary came out saying 'What a beautiful hunk of man!' In 1974, he appeared with Peter Falk and Robert Conrad in the Columbo episode An Exercise in Fatality. Finally, I made my entrance. The Robe and Samson and Delilah weren't bad. He asked for a pay increase of $1,250 a week.[25]. [7] In 1991, his performance in Baitz's play The Substance of Fire won him the Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Drama-Logue awards for Best Actor. [52], Back at Fox, Mature was meant to be reteamed with Betty Grable in a musical, The Farmer Takes a Wife, but the studio instead reassigned him to a comedy with Patricia Neal, Something for the Birds.[53]. James Martinez, Actor: Run All Night. It told of a Los Angeles band who had taken their name from a newspaper headline describing an incident where furious wasps had ganged up on the actor during a round of golf. [49] RKO released - but did not produce - Mature's next film, Androcles and the Lion, an adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw with Mature as a Roman centurion. He also played Bonnie Franklin's second boyfriend on One Day at a Time. "CinemaScope Supporters Confident: Hollywood Letter" by Richard Dyer MacCann. 'Victor Mature Takes 4th Wife at Tijuana', "SHAW BECOMES PRANKISH IN SATIRE AT PLAYHOUSE". Created by Gloria Calderon Kellett, Mike Royce. Mature played "Tony Powell", an aging American actor who is living off his reputation from his earlier body of work. "COMINGS AND GOINGS LATEST STUDIO AND THEATER GOSSIP THE DRAMA WORLD: NEW PLAY TAKES LOOK BEHIND HOTEL SCENE" von Blon, Katherine T. "'PARADISE PLANTATION' POIGNANT FOOTLIGHT PIECE" Everyone told me I would go crazy or die if I quit working. This was followed by Footlight Serenade with Grable and Payne. [51] According to Williams’s autobiography, she and Mature had a romantic relationship. His first film under the contract was to be Bowery Nightingale with Alice Faye. The more lurid or distasteful the art the better Mature comes across. Confidential Ask anybody, particularly the critics."[76]. The character poked fun at both his screen image and, reportedly, RCA Victor, which distributed Colgems Records, The Monkees's label. Harrington became known in the 1950s as a member of Steve Allen's television comedy troupe, the "Men on the Street"[4] (which included Don Knotts, Tom Poston and Louis Nye). The studio people were so pleased with his performance, they bought an option to take over half of Mature's contract with Hal Roach, enabling them to draw on his services for two films a year over three years. Ron Rifkin (born Saul M. Rifkin; October 31, 1939) is an American actor best known for his roles as Arvin Sloane on the spy drama Alias, Saul Holden on the drama Brothers & Sisters, and District Attorney Ellis Loew in L.A. Until 2011, he played second-in-command businessman Saul Holden on Brothers & Sisters, opposite Sally Field. Confidential. He was announced for Battleground and Mr Whiskers before eventually being cast in a serious drama about football, Interference, which became Easy Living, with Lucille Ball. Martinez portrayed series regular Jorge Sanchez in Gravity on Starz in 2010. "[7] Mature signed a seven-year contract with Roach in September 1939. He reprised his role as Schneider in a series of commercials in the late 1980s for Trak Auto Parts after the show ended. In a 1971 interview, Mature quipped about his decision to retire: I was never that crazy about acting. [2][3] then graduated from Fordham University in 1950 with a bachelor of arts and subsequently received a master's degree in political philosophy, also from Fordham. Additional theatre credits include David Hirson's Wrong Mountain, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Neil Simon's Proposals. [48] (It was later filmed with new stars as Red Skies of Montana.). Follows three generations of the same Cuban-American family living in the same house: a newly divorced former military mother, her … "The studio [Fox] will have to make a success of me," said Mature. "[16] So he went to New York City to try the theatre. Victoria is now an opera singer as was her mother, This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 00:08. In 1996, he starred in the film version of Substance; in 2002, he appeared in the Baitz play Ten Unknowns at Boston's Huntington Theatre; in 2004, he starred in his play The Paris Letter at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, a role he reprised the following year at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City; and appeared in the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters, which Baitz created, as a character named Saul, Rifkin's real-life name. One Day at a Time (TV Series 1975–1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. [35] That film co-starred Coleen Gray, who had been in Kiss of Death and Fox announced plans to team them for a third time in a remake of Seventh Heaven. From 1965 to 1969, Harrington portrayed the voices of both The Inspector (a character inspired by Inspector Jacques Clouseau) and his sidekick Deux Deux in all of the original 34 animated episodes of the character's eponymous series, created by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng and released via United Artists. [71] He ended up only making the first, a World War Two film with Libyan locations; Jack Palance took his role in The Man Inside. (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), Kiss of Death (1947), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Robe (1953). Back at RKO, Mature made Dangerous Mission for producer Irwin Allen. He was spotted by Charles R. Rogers, an agent for Hal Roach, while acting in a production of To Quito and Back. He signed to appear in a play with the Group Theatre, Retreat to Pleasure by Irwin Shaw. He enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard after taking a different eye test the same day. ; The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Sex and the City, The Bob Newhart Show, The Good Wife, ER as Doctor Carl Vucelich, Law & Order, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Falcon Crest as Dr. Hal Lantry, Soap, Hill Street Blues, and The Outer Limits, for which he received a CableACE nomination and SMASH as a Tony Award presenter. In September 1950, he was making a film in Montana about fire fighters, Wild Winds, for Fox with John Lund. "Drama: Gann Book About Hong Kong Likely for Wayne; Gomez to Play Skipper" Schallert, Edwin. Harrington was well known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the 1975–1984 television sitcom One Day at a Time. (This included loan out provisions to RKO.) [6][unreliable source?]. Chanukah with the 'Brothers & Sisters, "Ron Rifkin's Jewish Journeys | Luke Ford", Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Rifkin&oldid=979473323, American people of Russian-Jewish descent, Articles lacking reliable references from June 2019, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 00:20. [8], Roach cast Mature in a small role in The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939), for which one reviewer called him "a handsome Tarzan type". "M-G-M TO MAKE 27 FILMS IN YEAR: 8 Movies Will Start Within 60 Days -- Three Broadway Plays on Studio Schedule" . 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