Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917-1997) · United States · Actors · Died at 79
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Something wrong?He owned noir the way some actors own a single role - Mitchum made an entire mood his territory. That half-lidded stare and the voice like gravel at 3 a.m. turned him into the guy you'd cast if the script called for someone dangerous, tired, or both at once.
A life in dates
Dead ManFilm, John Dickinson1993Donostia AwardAward1992Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAward
African SkiesSeries, 1992Sam Dutton1991
Cape FearFilm, Lieutenant Elgart1989“Got the same attitude I had when I started. Haven't changed anything but my underwear. I've played everything except midgets and women.”In their wordsSpeaking at the 1989 Deauville American Film Festival, as quoted in "Obituary: Robert Mitchum" by Gilbert Adair, in The Independent (July1985
North and SouthSeries, Patrick Flynn1984
Maria's LoversFilm, Ivan's Father1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSeries
Farewell, My LovelyFilm, 1975Philip Marlowe1973
The Friends of Eddie CoyleFilm, Eddie 'Fingers' Coyle1971Film '72Series1968
5 Card StudFilm, Reverend Jonathan Rudd1966
ABC Stage 67Series
El DoradoFilm, 1966Sheriff J.P. Harrah1962
The Longest DayFilm, Brig. Gen. Norman Cota1959
The Wonderful CountryFilm, Producer1957
Heaven Knows, Mr. AllisonFilm, Corporal Allison USMC1954The Jimmy Durante ShowSeries
River of No ReturnFilm, 1954Matt Calder1951
His Kind of WomanFilm, Dan Milner1950
What's My Line?Series1948
Blood on the MoonFilm, Jim Garry1946“For a while it looked like I was going to be stuck in westerns. I figured out I could make 6 a year for 60 years and then retire. I decided I didn't want it.”In their words2 May 1946As quoted in "In Hollywood" by Erskine Johnson (NEA), in The Blytheville Courier News (May 2, 1946)1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries
Thirty Seconds Over TokyoFilm, 1944Bob Gray1917Born6 August 1917Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 7
, Got the same attitude I had when I started. Haven't changed anything but my underwear. I've played everything except midgets and women.
For a while it looked like I was going to be stuck in westerns. I figured out I could make 6 a year for 60 years and then retire. I decided I didn't want it.
I usually take no notice of reviews unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.
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DMDead Man
TOTombstone
LALa Classe américaineCFCape Fear
SCScroogedMLMaria's Lovers
TSThe Big Sleep
MIMidway
TTThe Last TycoonFLFarewell, My Lovely
TYThe YakuzaTCThe Friends of Eddie Coyle
RDRyan's DaughterCS5 Card Stud
ANAnzio
VRVilla Rides
TWThe Way WestEDEl Dorado
WGWhat a Way to Go!
TMThe List of Adrian MessengerTDThe Longest Day
CFCape Fear
TGThe Grass Is Greener
HHHome from the HillTCThe Wonderful Country
TRThunder Road
TBThe Enemy BelowHAHeaven Knows, Mr. Allison
THThe Night of the Hunter
MGMan with the GunRRRiver of No Return
AFAngel Face
TMThe Lusty MenHWHis Kind of Woman
HAHoliday AffairBMBlood on the Moon
OPOut of the Past
CRCrossfire
PUPursuedTTThirty Seconds Over Tokyo183 credits on file
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WOWormwood
TPTalking Pictures
PAParkinson
PSPrivate ScreeningsASAfrican Skies
BRBrotherhood of the Rose
WRWar and Remembrance
TEThe EqualizerNSNorth and South
TWThe Winds of War
SLSaturday Night LiveLDLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
PAPeople's Choice Awards
TTThe American Film Institute Salute to ...
TSThe Dick Cavett ShowASABC Stage 67
TSThe Mike Douglas Show
CICinépanorama
TOThe OscarsWLWhat's My Line?
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was born August 6, 1917, and broke through in 1945 with an Academy Award nomination for The Story of G.I. Joe. What followed was a thirty-year run through the center of American cinema: Out of the Past in 1947, The Night of the Hunter in 1955, Cape Fear in 1962, and a long string of westerns, thrillers, and character pieces that made him the American Film Institute's 23rd greatest male star. Roger Ebert called him the soul of film noir; critic David Thomson said no American actor since the war had made more first-class films in so many moods. In 1983 he played Captain "Pug" Henry across two epic World War II miniseries, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, before his death on July 1, 1997.
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