Question: What American stage, film, and television actor  who also appeared in a large number of musicals, played Samson in the 1949 film "Samson and Delilah".
Context: Arthur Turner (27 September 1900 – 25 April 1971) was an English actor.  He was best known for playing Sgt Flint on the TV series "Dixon of Dock Green", appearing in 253 episodes from 1955 to 1965.  He also appeared with "Dixon" 's star Jack Warner in the 1949 film "The Blue Lamp", which was also the film in which the character of PC George Dixon was created. Walter Reed (born Walter Reed Smith, February 10, 1916 – August 20, 2001) was an American stage, film and television actor.  He was born in Fort Ward, Washington.  Following a stint as a Broadway actor, Reed broke into films in 1941.  He appeared in several features for RKO Radio Pictures, including the last two "Mexican Spitfire" comedies (in which Reed replaced Buddy Rogers as the Spitfire's husband).  Perhaps his most memorable role was as the spineless wagon driver husband of Gail Russell in the western "Seven Men from Now".  Reed also appeared in the very first Superman theatrical feature film "Superman and the Mole Men" in 1951. Brian Lane Green (born March 9, 1962) is an American stage and television actor and singer.  He is known for his stage roles throughout the country such as the title character in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  Green garnered a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the 1989 Broadway production of "Starmites".  He also appeared as JoJo in "The Life" on Broadway. Eric Thal (born August 10, 1965) is an American film and stage actor, perhaps best known as Ariel in Sidney Lumet's "A Stranger Among Us"; Sam Nivens in "The Puppet Masters"; Samson in "Samson and Delilah"; Meade Howell in "The Wedding"; and Rick in "Six Degrees of Separation". Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor who starred most notably in several Biblical movies during the 1950s, and was known for his dark good looks and mega-watt smile.  His best known film roles include "One Million B.C." (1940), "My Darling Clementine" (1946), "Kiss of Death" (1947), "Samson and Delilah" (1949), and "The Robe" (1953).  He also appeared in a large number of musicals opposite such stars as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was an acclaimed Japanese-American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice".  His film career began in 1932 with the "Night Club Lady".  He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic "Mr. Moto's Last Warning".  Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, "Tokyo Joe".  He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film "Batman" as a Japanese Delegate, and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run.  He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" in 1965.  That year he also made a guest appearance on "Perry Mason" as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug."  In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of "Hawaii Five-O" (titled "The Reunion").  He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in "Barnaby Jones" and "The Six Million Dollar Man", and died in Encino, California in 1988. Elois Jenssen (November 5, 1922 – February 14, 2004) was an American film and television costume designer.  She earned Academy Awards nominations for design work in the Cecil B. DeMille production "Samson and Delilah" (1949) and for her work on the Walt Disney Studios film "Tron" (1982). Ivan Samson (28 August 1894 – 1 May 1963) was a British stage, film and television actor.  Samson appeared regularly in West End plays and from 1920 began appearing in British silent films.  He played Viscount de Mornay in "I Will Repay" and Lord Dudley in "The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots".  In later talkie films, Samson played roles in the literary adaptations "The Winslow Boy" (1948) and "The Browning Version" (1951).  His final film appearance was as Admiral Loddon in the 1959 film "Libel".  He also appeared in television series such as "The Teckman Biography", "Operation Diplomat" and "Dixon of Dock Green". Gary Watson (13 June 1930 in Shropshire, England) is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play "Judith" at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery.  He was however best known for his appearances in British ITC productions of the 1960s including "The Avengers", "The Saint" and "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in 1969 in the last episode The Smile Behind the Veil.  In 1966 he played in all 10 episodes of The Three Musketeers as Aramis starring alongside Brian Blessed and Jeremy Brett.  He also appeared in the 1967 "Doctor Who" serial The Evil of the Daleks.  He appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins in the 1972 Television series War and Peace.  He played the semi-regular character of Det. Insp. Fred Connor in the long running BBC police drama Z-Cars between 1972 and 1974.  In 1974 he played George Vavsor for 5 episodes in The Pallisers which also featured Jeremy Irons.  In 1977, he played the role of Ross in the BBC series "Murder Most English" and also appeared in the 1988 BBC adaptation of Macbeth playing MacDuff.  He was also much employed as a reader and narrator, featuring in dozens of commercials throughout the 1980s and 1990s, particularly noted for his work in British Transport Films, Lloyds Bank and Nescafé adverts. Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television film adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, starring Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature.  Mature played Samson in the 1949 film and had a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson.  This was his final acting role.  Based on the novel "Husband of Delilah" by Eric Linklater, "Samson and Delilah" originally aired on ABC.
Answer: Victor John Mature