American actor (1917–1997)
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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.
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 Cap…
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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.
No. But it was indicated by other people that I should go there—like my wife, my friends, the woman from Alcoholics Anonymous who came around.
Listen, when I arrived in Los Angeles in the early '40s, there were just 640,000 people. Every loser in the world headed there because there was no competition.
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