Jory in Gone With the Wind along with Isabel Jewell as Emmy Slattery.
Having seen him play one too many bad guys as a kid, (especially as Injun Joe in Tom Sawyer and as the creepy husband in The Fugitive Kind) I was always frightened and repulsed by him until I began to appreciate his intelligent approach to making even the most threadbare parts something memorable, even when he appeared in serials such as The Shadow and The Green Archer.
I suppose most of us think of him as Jonas Wilkerson, the Tara overseer who couldn't stay away from that "white trash" Slattery girl in GWTW, but his voice, and occasional good guy roles were really intriguing.
An obscure movie from the early '30s, The Devil's In Love (1933-William Dieterle), which shows up on FMC once in awhile seems to have been part of a campaign early in his film career to make him a leading man. Set in the Foreign Legion, we have questions of conscience, sacred and profane love (the first is represented by the seraphic Loretta Young, who later told a writer she did not care for the script or Mr. Jory, the second by Vivienne Osborne, as a loyal, if blowsy born loser from the Casbah), and you have a murder case to solve. All in all, Vic has lots to overcome, and seems a bit perplexed himself to find himself in the lead. I like the way that questions of the elusiveness of truth, and justice are toyed with throughout this movie, as well as Jory's world weary angst.
Do you have a particular favorite of his many roles as a good guy or bad'un?
