Biography
Victor Jory was a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Jonas Wilkerson, the brutal and opportunistic overseer, in "Gone with the Wind", and as Lamont Cranston, aka 'The Shadow', in the 1942 serial film "The Shadow".
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...

The Mountain Men
1980
as Iron Belly
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Runn...

Power
1980
as Hillman
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade...

Abraham's Sacrifice
1979
as Narrator (voice)
Tale of Abraham who battles a King for his land and who seeks revenge on Abraham for killing his son. And the birth of his son, Isaac and the scheming...

Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar
1979
as Narrator
A biblical drama about Daniel who gains his release by interpreting a dream for King Nebuchadnezzar.

The Story of Noah
1978
as Narrator
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
1978
as Shaman
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.

Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977
as Father Zaya
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills a...

Perilous Voyage
1976
as Dr. Henry Merrill
A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds all of the passengers hostage.

Papillon
1973
as Indian Chief
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his esca...

Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
as Frasier (voice)
A telepathic lion teaches an awkward zoologist how to love.

Flap
1970
as Wounded Bear Mr. Smith (Attorney at Law)
Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.

A Time for Dying
1969
as Judge Roy Bean
Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel ...

Mackenna's Gold
1969
as The Narrator
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to ke...

Jigsaw
1968
as Edward Arkroyd
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.

Bonanza: Ride the Wind
1966
as Charles Ludlow
The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe signing up as a rider. Adding to his concerns, the...

Cheyenne Autumn
1964
as Tall Tree
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

The Miracle Worker
1962
as Captain Arthur Keller
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard h...

The Fugitive Kind
1960
as Jabe Torrance
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dy...
Johnny Belinda
1958
as Black McDonald
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...

Last Stagecoach West
1957
as Rand McCord
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. ...

The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957
as Dr. Murdock
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves...

The Ninth Day
1957
After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is t...

Dracula
1956
The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

Death of a Scoundrel
1956
as Leonard Wilson
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

Forbidden Area
1956
as Rear Admiral Batt
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will an...

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956
as Jared Letlow
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.

Manfish
1956
as Professor
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.

Sabaka
1955
as Ashok
A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.

Valley of the Kings
1954
as Tuareg Chief
Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to he...

Moby Dick
1954
as Captain Ahab
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.

Cat-Women of the Moon
1953
as Kip Reissner
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.

The Man from the Alamo
1953
as Jess Wade
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish ...

Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
as Frank Girard
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring ...

Flaming Feather
1952
as Lucky Lee
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When...

Cave of Outlaws
1951
as Ben Cross
Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.

The Highwayman
1951
as Lord Douglas

The Cariboo Trail
1950
as Frank Walsh
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.

The Capture
1950
as Father Gomez
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

Fighting Man of the Plains
1949
as Dave Oldham
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.

Canadian Pacific
1949
as Dirk Rourke
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

South of St. Louis
1949
as Luke Cottrell
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each ...

A Woman's Secret
1949
as Brook Matthews
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal p...

The Gallant Blade
1948
as Marshal of France Mordore
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.

The Loves of Carmen
1948
as GarcĂa
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

Tubby the Tuba
1947
as Narrator (voice) / Tubby (voice) / Frog (voice)
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits wh...

Shoe Shine Jasper
1947
as (voice)
George Pal shines a shoes while fairy godmother visits him.
Jasper's Paradise
1944
as (voice)
Jasper goes to heaven in this George Pal Puppetoon.

The Unknown Guest
1943
as Charles 'Chuck' Williams
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.

Bar 20
1943
as Mark Jackson
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.

The Kansan
1943
as Jeff Barat
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He s...

Colt Comrades
1943
as Jeb Hardin
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam own...

Leather Burners
1943
as Dan Slack
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his te...

Buckskin Frontier
1943
as Champ Clanton
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.

Hoppy Serves a Writ
1943
as Tom Jordan
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving a...

Power of the Press
1943
as Oscar Trent
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war e...

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
1942
as Ike Clanton
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

Shut My Big Mouth
1942
as Buckskin Bill
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

Tulips Shall Grow
1942
as (voice)
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside bei...

Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941
as 'Dapper' Dan Streever
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.

The Stork Pays Off
1941
as Deak Foster
Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club...

Riders of the Timberline
1941
as Baptiste Deschamp
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging the...

Charlie Chan in Rio
1941
as Alfredo Cardozo, alias Marana
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the si...

The Gay Knighties
1941
as Narrator (voice)
Jim Dandy is having a dream about a fierce ogre that is terrifying a mythical kingdom of your. Sir Archibald Cornwal Dandy, a wandering troubadour, me...

Wide Open Town
1941
as Steve Fraser
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sh...

Bad Men of Missouri
1941
as William Merrick
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buyin...

Hoola Boola
1941
as Narrator (voice)
Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. A Puppetoon animated short film.

Border Vigilantes
1941
as Henry Logan
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy disco...

Give Us Wings
1940
as Mr. Arnold Carter
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

Lady with Red Hair
1940
as Mr. Clifton
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

The Green Archer
1940
as Spike Holland
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes...

Cherokee Strip
1940
as Coy Barrett
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barre...

Girl from Havana
1940
as Tex Moore
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...

River's End
1940
as Norman Talbot
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays t...

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
as Clay Beaudine
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.

Light of Western Stars
1940
as Gene Stewart
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back...

Knights of the Range
1940
as Malcolm Lascalles
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more ...

The Shadow
1940
as Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death...

Gone with the Wind
1939
as Jonas Wilkerson
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...

Call a Messenger
1939
as Ed Hogan
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. H...

Each Dawn I Die
1939
as W.J. Grayce
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re...

I Stole a Million
1939
as Patian
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Susannah of the Mounties
1939
as Wolf Pelt
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canad...

Man of Conquest
1939
as William B. Travis
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

Women in the Wind
1939
as Doc
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Dodge City
1939
as Yancey
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Wings of the Navy
1939
as Lt. Parsons
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give...

Blackwell's Island
1939
as Thomas MacNair
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
as Injun Joe
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witn...

First Lady
1937
as Senator Gordon Keane
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay
1937
as Gregoroff
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Glamorous Night
1937
as Baron Lyadeff
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.

Breakdowns of 1936
1936
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

Rangle River
1936
as Dick Drake
Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with ho...

Meet Nero Wolfe
1936
as Claude Roberts
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwo...

The King Steps Out
1936
as Capt. Palfi
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

Hell-Ship Morgan
1936
as Jim Allen
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.

A Dream Comes True
1935
as Oberon (archive footage) (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

White Lies
1935
as Terry Condon
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is i...

Too Tough to Kill
1935
as John O'Hara
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fa...

Escape from Devil's Island
1935
as Dario
Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
as Oberon
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehear...

Streamline Express
1935
as Jimmy Hart
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he in...

Party Wire
1935
as Matthew Putnam
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

Mills of the Gods
1934
as Jim Devlin
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meet...

Madame du Barry
1934
as Duc Armand d'Aiguillon
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV...
Pursued
1934
as Beauregard
A man arrives in British North Borneo in order to take over his deceased uncle's plantation and falls in love with a cabaret singer, who nurses him ba...

He Was Her Man
1934
as Nick Gardella
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

Murder in Trinidad
1934
as Howard Sutter
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spa...

I Believed in You
1934
as Jim Crowl
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon fi...

Smoky
1933
as Clint Peters
Rodeo star forms a strong bond with the noble horse he took from the wilds and trained. Unfortunately, they end up on different life paths and are sep...

My Woman
1933
as John Bradley
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

The Devil's in Love
1933
as Dr. Andre Morand/Paul Vernay
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commande...

I Loved You Wednesday
1933
as Randall Williams
Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they se...
Trick for Trick
1933
as La Tour
Six months after the unsolved murder of a young woman who had been his assistant magician Azrah arranges a seance that will be attended by his former ...

Infernal Machine
1933
as Alfred Doreen
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. Af...

Sailor's Luck
1933
as Baron Portola aka Darrow
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francis...

State Fair
1933
as Hoop Toss Barker
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

Handle with Care
1932
as 1st Public Enemy
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children wh...

The Pride of the Legion
1932
as Jerry Brewster
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented...

Renegades
1930
as Officer Belonge (uncredited)
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their reg...