Occasionally in cinematic history you will come across an actor who was just made to be a bad guy. Something about him made him fit that role. A lot of actors were "bad" in appearance: tough-looking, heavy beard, looked Mediterranean or Eastern European. And a few of them were handsome, but still had that "bad guy" look about them.
Victor Jory played a few good guy roles, but he made his living on the other side of the wanted poster. He managed to look conniving and sleezy. I would guess that most of his bad guy roles were in westerns, but he also filled that slot in some of the old detective movies. (I remember him in one Boston Blackie film.)
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