Victor Mature’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actor Victor Mature died at the age of 86. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

As the first male film star to be labeled a hunk, he appeared in Samson and Delilah in 1949 and The Robe in 1953. His other feature films include One Million B.C. and I Wake Up Screaming.

His father was a cutler and Italian immigrant. He was married to his fifth wife, Loretta G Sebena, from 1974 to 1999.

Victor Mature, who attained movie stardom dressed in a wooly mammoth loincloth, died on Wednesday, August 4, 1999, in San Diego County, Calif. He was 86, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, although other reference books put him at 83 or 84. He died of cancer, said Zollie Volchok, a friend.

Quotes

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I wasn’t pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

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I’m no actor, and I’ve got 64 pictures to prove it.

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I’m an emotional actor. When I’m doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I’m in the scene.

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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn’t show it.