You've got him Sheba over to you for a pic.

Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922  April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor, screenwriter and producer. He starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in support parts in films such as How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).

 

Early life

Born Francis Timothy McCown in Los Angeles, California, Calhoun spent his early years in Santa Cruz, California.^[1] The son of a professional gambler, he was of Irish ancestry.^[1] He was only nine months old when his father died; Calhoun's mother remarried, and he occasionally went by Frank Durgin, using the last name of his stepfather.^{[citation needed]}

Prison

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. He escaped while in the adjustment center (jail within the jail).

He left home at seventeen to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars.^[2]

After robbing several jewelry stores, he stole a car and drove it across state lines. This made it a federal offense, and when he was recaptured, he was sentenced to three years in prison. He served his sentence at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.^[3] He remained there until he was paroled shortly before his twenty-first birthday.^[4]

Acting career as Frank McCown

Calhoun worked at a number of odd jobs, including as a mechanic, a logger in California's redwoods, a hard-rock miner in Nevada, a cowboy in Arizona, a fisherman, a truck driver, a crane operator, and a forest firefighter.^[5]

In January 1944, while riding horseback in the Hollywood Hills, he met actor Alan Ladd, whose wife, Sue Carol, was an agent. She arranged for him to have a screen test at 20th Century Fox, and he was cast in uncredited roles for Something for the Boys (1944), and Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944).^[6] He had a one-line role in a Laurel and Hardy comedy, The Bullfighters (1945), credited under the name Frank McCown.

He also appeared in Where Do We Go from Here? (1945), The Great John L. (1945) (as Gentleman Jim Corbett), and Nob Hill (1945).

"I liked the money it brought in," said Calhoun. "And I felt it would be nice to go back to forestry with a neat bank roll when these fellows found me out. I never had any feeling I'd make good."^[5]

David O. Selznick

Shortly afterwards, the Ladds hosted a party attended by David O. Selznick employee Henry Willson, an agent who was known for representing young actors. Willson signed McCown to a contract with Selznick's company Vanguard and his name was soon changed to Rory Calhoun.

According to Calhoun, Selznick told him his first name should be "Rory... because you're a Leo, Leos are lions, and lions roar." Selznick suggested either Donahue, Calhoun or Callahan as a surname, and he picked Calhoun.^[2] (In another account of the story, Selznick named him "Rory" because he helped put out roaring fire blazes when a fire fighter and "Calhoun" because it sounded Irish.^[6]

In 1945, Calhoun returned to prison after punching a detective.^[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Calhoun

He was quite a good Footballer.

Not Alex Sandy.  This guy was the first of his kind.

I'm not a football/Rugby follower I have tried but I had better leave it to the experts

Would that be Ian Roberts ??

Thanks Sheba now for a change of pace who is this youngster from days gone by

 

Spot on there Sandy who do you have now

 

 

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931  September 30, 1955) was an American actor from Indiana. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956).

After his death in a car crash,^[1] Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations.^[2] In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.^[3]

Would he be Russell Crowe ???

As a clue this guy was an actor and going back to my childhood comic book days he shares the same last name as the ghost who walks who is 400 years old.

 

You got it Radar over to you. About the phantoms name when he was incognito in the city in a suit and sunglasses he was called "Mister Walker"

Paul William Walker IV^[3] (September 12, 1973^[4] November 30, 2013) was an American actor and philanthropist. He is best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in The Fast and the Furious franchise.

Walker begun his career as a child actor in the 1970s and 1980s, but first gained recognition in the early 1990s after featuring in the television soap opera The Young and the Restless. He soon transitioned into film, and received praise in 1999 for his performances in the teen films She's All That and Varsity Blues, which helped kickstart his career. Walker then gained international fame after starring in The Fast and the Furious.

He subsequently gained commercial success in a number of other action and thriller films, enjoying critical praise for his performances in Joy Ride (2001), Into the Blue (2005), and Running Scared (2006). Walker also enjoyed critical and commercial success in other genres, such as for the survival drama Eight Below (2006), and the war film Flags of Our Fathers (2006).

Later in his career, Walker featured as a presenter for the marine biology series Expedition Great White^[5] and became known for his philanthropic efforts, founding the disaster-relief charity Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW) in 2010.^[6]

Walker died on November 30, 2013, at the age of 40 as a passenger in a single-car crash alongside friend and driver Roger Rodas. Walker's father and daughter filed separate wrongful death lawsuits against Porsche, which resulted in settlements. At the time of his death, Walker hadn't completed filming for Furious 7 (2015), and it was delayed for rewrites. The song "See You Again", performed by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, was commissioned for the Furious 7 soundtrack as a tribute to Walker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Walker

This one must be harder then I thought but is it A B C or D?

sandman55 wrote:

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I first thought a young Christopher Skase but after a google it's not him maybe a young ABC commentator

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Not ABC but could be D. You are on the right track but different TV channel.

G'day Radar. Is he Eddie McGuire?

Cheers.

Thanks Radar. OK all who is this Australian?

Cheers.

-- Edited by ballast2 on Tuesday 28th of May 2019 08:59:04 PM