- Applying for membership in the swank Los Angeles Country Club at the height of his fame, Mature was turned down and told that the golfing facility did not accept actors as members. His response: "I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!".
- He was a petty officer in the Coast Guard during World War II. He served on the troop transport ship Admiral Mayo. His service carried him to the North Atlantic, including Normandy, the Mediterranean, Caribbean and many islands in the South Pacific. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan.
- In her autobiography, Esther Williams details a passionate affair she had with Mature during the filming of Million Dollar Mermaid (1952). According to Williams, her marriage was on the rocks, she needed love and Mature provided all she wanted.
- He attributed his success in Biblical spectacles to his ability to "make with the holy look."
- Attended the Kentucky Military Academy. One of his classmates was future fellow actor, Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell III in Gilligan's Island (1964)).
- He was supposed to fight the lion bare-handed in Samson and Delilah (1949), but he managed to convince Cecil B. DeMille to use a stunt double (Kay Bell) instead. "I had no love for the lion," the actor told Movieland Magazine, "and he wasn't carrying any torch for me. In the scene in which I was supposed to be stalking him, Cecil DeMille kept urging me to get closer, and I was calling out, 'Nice kitty, nice kitty.' Didn't do any good. . . A stunt man finally tackled the lion".
- Was approached for the role of Sylvester Stallone's father in Oscar (1991), which eventually went to Kirk Douglas.
- Although several sources suggest that Mature's family name was originally Maturi, United States and Austrian birth, immigration, census and other records, as well as Victor Mature himself, are quite clear that as of 1877, the family name was Mature.
- A false story has circulated that George Reeves auditioned for the role of Samson in Samson and Delilah (1949), but lost the role to Mature. Supposedly, he was given the role of "Wounded Messenger" at the recommendation of Mature, who was very loyal to his friends from his student days at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The fact is that Reeves was never under consideration for the role of Samson. However, many of the smaller roles in the film were played by Mature's friends from Pasadena.
- Is buried in St. Michael Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Daughter, Victoria, born in 1975.
- In Zarak (1956) he played perhaps the only title character in the movies to be flogged to death.
- Victor's father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi (later Marcellus George Mature), a knife sharpener and cutler, was born in 1877 in the town of Pinzolo, in the Italian Tyrolean region of Trentino, which was then under the rule of the Austria-Hungary Empire, and was returned to Italian sovereignty in 1918, after WWI. Victor's mother, Clara P. (Ackley), was born in Kentucky. Victor's maternal grandfather, Charles Anthony "Antone" Ackley, was a Swiss immigrant, of Swiss-German descent, while Victor's maternal grandmother, Magdalen "Lena" Weekes, was born in Indiana, to German parents.
- George Clooney played a caricature of Victor Mature in the 2016 Coen brothers movie Hail Caesar.
- In the late 1950s, he had his own production company and planned to star in a biblical movie about King Solomon.
- His first biblical film, Samson and Delilah (1949), won the Film Français Grand Prix for Best Foreign Film. His second biblical film, The Robe (1953), was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Featured in "Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 2003).
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 389-390. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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