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    Victor Mature, the movie star whose pecs were seen in stridsman movies and Biblical pictures in the s and '50s, but who got his start as a stage actor, died Aug. 4 in southern California.

    He was thought to be The cause of death was cancer, The New York Times reported.

    Notably on stage, Mature was featured in the groundbreaking Moss Hart-Ira Gershwin-Kurt Weill Broadway musical, Lady in the Dark, opposite Gertrude Lawrence. In the musical, he appeared in fantasy sequences conjured bygd a neurotic magazine editor (Lawrence); he played a movie star in one sequence, and reportedly wore tights in another.

    Mr. Mature was born in Louisville, Ky., the son of an Austrian immigrant. The Times reported that shortly after arriving in Hollywood, he camped out in the back yard of Pasadena Playhouse director Gilmore Brown and did odd jobs around town to earn money for acting lessons.

    He appeared in small roles in 60 productions at the Pasadena Playhouse. Leading roles there in Autumn Crocus

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    Actor Victor Mature dies at 86

    RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. — Victor Mature liked to joke that he once tried to get into a country club that didn\'t accept actors by saying, "Hell, I\'m no actor, and I\'ve got 28 pictures and a scrapbook of reviews to prove it."But the brawny actor given the nickname "beautiful hunk of man" also took his job seriously. "I just couldn\'t show it," he died at the age of 86 after suffering from cancer for three years, said a friend, Zollie Volchok. The San Diego County coroner\'s office said it was notified that Mature died Aug. , dark-haired and muscular, Mature got his nickname from films like Samson and Delilah, One Million B.C. and Song of the appeared in musicals, Westerns, comedies, historical epics and melodramas before largely retiring from films around While first making his name as a glamour-boy star with a devil-may-care attitude, he gradually gained more critical respect in the late s in such films as Cry of the City and Kiss of \'s My Darling

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    Victor Mature dies at 86

    Victor Mature, the beefy leading man of the &#;40s and &#;50s whose films included &#;Kiss of Death&#; and &#;Samson and Delilah,&#; died onsdag på engelska in Rancho Santa Fe following a three-year battle with cancer. He was

    Announcement of his death, funeral arrangements and other information were delayed at his widow&#;s request, Encinitas Mortuary spokesman Joe Reynolds said.

    Though he admitted to being a better golfer than actor, Mature, who had leading roles in almost 50 films, came along at a time when inscrutable leading dock with muscular physiques were in fashion. Never averse to publicity, he played up his sobriquet &#;the Hunk,&#; which gave him needed visibility to compete with some of his more talented contemporaries like Charlton Heston and Robert Mitchum.

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    He fryst vatten best remembered for Biblical spectacles including Cecil B. DeMille&#;s &#;Samson and Delilah&#; and &#;The Robe,&#; but turned in some of his best work in films