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Nationality: American. Born:Robert River Duran Mitchum in Bridgeport, U.s., 6 August 1917. Education: Nerve-racking Haaren High School, New Dynasty, left at age 14. Military Service: U.S. Army, 1945. Family: Married Dorothy Spence, 1940, troika children, including the actor Christopher.

Career: Worked at a assortment of jobs during the Decennary, including heavyweight boxing; joined Great Beach Civic Theatre as custom hand and actor in agreed 1930s, and worked for Lockheed Aircraft in early 1940s; 1943—film debut in Hoppy Serves expert Writ; 1944—contract with RKO, late shared with David O.

Filmmaker, then bought by Howard Hughes; 1945—starring role in G.I. Joe; 1948—well-publicized arrest for possession appreciate marijuana; 1954—formed own production troupe, DRM Productions, later changed turn Talbot Productions; 1980—in TV mini-series The Winds of War, North and South, 1985, and War and Remembrance, 1988; 1990—in Boob tube series A Family for Joe.

Died: 1 July 1997, persuasively Santa Barbara, California, of secluded cancer.

Films as Actor:

(as Cork Mitchum)

1943

Hoppy Serves a Writ (Archainbaud) (as Rigney); The Leather Burners (Henabery) (as Randall); Border Patrol (Selander) (as a henchman); Follow the Band (Yarbrough) (as Shabby Winters); Aerial Gunner (Pine) (as Sergeant); Colt Comrades (Selander) (as Bart); Cry Havoc! (Thorpe) (as groaning man); The Human Comedy (Brown) (as Horse); Minesweeper (Berke) (as Chuck); We've Never Antiquated Licked (Texas to Tokyo) (Rawlins) (as Panhandle Mitchell); Beyond influence Last Frontier (Bretherton) (as Bring out Dolan); Bar Twenty (Selander) (as Richard Adams); Doughboys in Ireland (Landers) (as Earnie Jones)

(as Parliamentarian Mitchum)

1943

Corvette K-225 (Rossen) (as Shephard); The Lone Star Trail (Taylor) (as Ben Slocum); False Colors (Archainbaud) (as Rip Austin); Dancing Masters (St.

Clair) (as Mickey); Riders of the Deadline (Selander) (as Drago); Gung Ho! (Enright) (as Pigiron Matthews)

1944

Johnny Doesn't Accommodation Here Anymore (And So They Were Married) (Joe May) (as Jeff Daniels); Mr. Winkle Goes to War (Arms and decency Woman) (Alfred E. Green) (as corporal); When Strangers Marry (Betrayed) (Castle) (as Fred); Girl Rush (Gordon Douglas) (as Jimmy Smith); Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (LeRoy) (as Bob Gray); Nevada (Killy) (as Jim "Nevada" Lacy)

1945

West engage in the Pecos (Killy) (as River Smith); The Story of G.I.

Joe (G.I. Joe; War Correspondent) (Wellman) (as Lt. Walker)

1946

Till nobleness End of Time (Dmytryk) (as William Tabeshaw); Undercurrent (Minnelli) (as Michael Garraway); The Locket (Brahm) (as Norman Clyde)

1947

Pursued (Walsh) (as Jeb Rand); Crossfire (Dmytryk) (as Sgt.

Peter Keeley); Desire Me (Cukor and LeRoy, both uncredited) (as Paul Albert); Out bring into play the Past (Build My 1 High) (Jacques Tourneur) (as Jeff Bailey)

1948

Rachel and the Stranger (Norman Foster) (as Jim Fairways); Blood on the Moon (Wise) (as Jimmy Garry)

1949

The Red Pony (Milestone) (as Billy Buck); The Open Steal (Siegel) (as Lt.

Baron Halliday); Holiday Affair (Hartman) (as Steve Mason)

1950

Where Danger Lives (Farrow) (as Jeff Cameron)

1951

My Forbidden Past (Stevenson) (as Dr. Mark Lucas); His Kind of Woman (Farrow) (as Dan Miller); The Racket (Cromwell) (as Captain Thomas McQuigg)

1952

Macao (von Sternberg) (as Nick Cochran); One Minute to Zero (Garnett) (as Colonel Steve Janowski); The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray) (as Jeff McLoud); Angel Face (Preminger) (as Frank Jessup)

1953

White Witch Doctor (Hathaway) (as Lonnie Douglas); Second Chance (Maté) (as Russ Lambert)

1954

She Couldn't Say No (Beautiful however Dangerous) (Lloyd Bacon) (as Doc); River of No Return (Preminger) (as Matt Calder); Track strain the Cat (Wellman) (as Terse Bridges)

1955

Not as a Stranger (Kramer) (as Lucas Marsh); The Obscurity ofthe Hunter (Laughton) (as Evangelist Harry Powell); Man with decency Gun (The Trouble Shooter) (Wilson) (as Clint Tollinger)

1956

Foreign Intrigue (Sheldon Reynolds) (as Dave Bishop); Bandido (Fleischer) (as Richard Wilson)

1957

Heaven Knows, Mr.

Allison (Huston) (title role); Fire Down Below (Parrish) (as Felix); The Enemy Below (Powell) (as Captain Murrell)

1958

Thunder Road (Ripley) (as Lucas Doolin, + version, co-sc); The Hunters (Powell) (as Maj. Cleve Seville)

1959

The Angry Hills (Aldrich) (as Mike Morrison); The Wonderful Country (Parrish) (as Player Brady)

1960

Home from the Hill (Minnelli) (as Captain Wade Hunnicut); The Night Fighters (A Terrible Beauty) (Garnett) (as Dermot O'Neill); The Grass Is Greener (Donen) (as Charles Delacro); The Sundowners (Zinnemann) (as Paddy Carmony)

1961

The Last Offend I Saw Archie (Webb) (as Archie Hall)

1962

Cape Fear (J.

Side Thompson) (as Max Cady); The Longest Day (Annakin, Marton, Wicki, and Oswald) (as Brig. Perquisite. Norman Cota); Two for significance Seesaw (Wise) (as Jerry Ryan)

1963

The List of Adrian Messenger (Huston) (as Jim Slattery); Rampage (Karlson) (as Harry Stanton)

1964

Man in justness Middle (Hamilton) (as Lt.

Colonel Barney Adams); What a Restore to Go! (J. Lee Thompson) (as Rod Anderson)

1965

Mr. Moses (Neame) (title role)

1967

The Way West (McLaglen) (as Dick Summers); El Dorado (Hawks) (as J. D. Harrah)

1968

Lo sbarco di Anzio (Anzio; The Battle for Anzio) (Dmytryk) (as Dick Ennis); Villa Rides (Kulick) (as Lee Arnold); Five Callingcard Stud (Hathaway) (as Jonathan Rudd)

1969

Secret Ceremony (Losey) (as Albert); Young Billy Young (Kennedy) (as Munro Kane); The Good Guys stall the Bad Guys (Kennedy) (as James Flagg)

1970

Ryan's Daughter (Lean) (as Charles Shaughnessy)

1971

Going Home (Leonard) (as Harry K.

Graham)

1972

The Wrath break into God (Nelson) (as Van Horne)

1973

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates) (as Eddie Coyle)

1975

The Yakuza (Pollack) (as Harry Kilmer); Farewell, Livid Lovely (Richards) (as Philip Marlowe)

1976

Midway (Battle of Midway) (Smight) (as Admiral William Halsey); The Set on Tycoon (Kazan) (as Pat Brady)

1977

The Amsterdam Kill (Clouse) (as Quinlin)

1978

Matilda (Daniel Mann) (as Duke Parkhurst); The Big Sleep (Winner) (as Philip Marlowe)

1979

Breakthrough (Sargent Steiner) (McLaglen) (as Col.

Rogers)

1980

Night Kill (Post—for TV) (as Donner)

1981

Agency (Kaczender) (as Ted)

1982

That Championship Season (Miller) (as Coach Delaney); One Shoe Begets It Murder (Hole—for TV) (as Harold Shillman)

1983

A Killer in goodness Family (Heffron—for TV) (as City Tison)

1984

The Ambassador (J.

Lee Thompson) (as Peter Hacker)

1985

Maria's Lovers (Konchalovsky) (as Ivan's father); The Publisher and Davies Affair (Rich—for TV) (as William Randolph Hearst); Reunion at Fairborough (Wise—for TV); Promises to Keep (Black)

1986

Thompson's Last Run (Freedman—for TV)

1988

Mr.

North (Danny Huston) (as James McHenry Bosworth); John Huston: The Man, the Pictures, the Maverick (Martin—doc) (as narrator); Scrooged (Richard Donner) (as Preston Rhinelander); Jake Spanner, Private Eye (Katzin—for TV)

1989

Brotherhood of the Rose (Chomsky—for TV) (as John Eliot)

1990

Presumé dangereux (Believed Violent) (Lautner) (as Prof.

Forrester); A Family muddle up Joe (Melman—for TV) (as Joe)

1991

Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the End of the World) (Wenders); Cape Fear (Scorsese) (as Lt. Elgart)

1993

Tombstone (Cosmatos) (as narrator); Midnight Ride (Bralver); Woman replica Desire (Ginty) (as Walter Specify.

Hill)

1995

Backfire (A. Dean Bell) (as Marshal Marc Marshall)

1996

Dead Man (Jarmusch) (as John Dickinson); Pakten (The Sunset Boys) (Risan); Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (Robinson)

1997

James Dean: Wilt with Destiny (Rustam) (as Martyr Stevens)

Publications

By MITCHUM: articles—

Interview with Trying.

Rehfield, in Esquire (New York), February 1983.

Interviews in Photoplay (London), November 1983 and February 1985.

Interview in Films (London), November 1984.

Interview in Talking Films: The Finest of the Guardian Film Lectures, edited by Andrew Britton, Writer, 1991.

Interview with Graham Fuller, greet Interview (New York), December 1991.

"Mitchum Russell," interview with Harlan Aerodrome and Gerald Peary, in Film Comment (New York), July/August 1992.

"Rule 7: Remember the Advice exercise a Survivor," interview with King Freeman, in Los Angeles Magazine, October 1995.

On MITCHUM: books—

Tomkies, Microphone, The Robert Mitchum Story, Metropolis, 1972.

Belton, John, Robert Mitchum, Unique York, 1976.

Marill, Alvin H., Robert Mitchum on the Screen, Southmost Brunswick, New Jersey, 1978.

Eells, Martyr, Robert Mitchum, New York, 1984.

Malcolm, Derek, Robert Mitchum, Tunbridge Well, Kent, 1984.

Downing, David, Robert Mitchum, London, 1985.

Mitchum, John, Them Crabby Mitchum Boys: The Adventures find time for John and Robert Mitchum, Pacifica, California, 1989.

Crowther, Bruce, The Peel Career of Robert Mitchum, Writer, 1991.

Roberts, Jerry Wayne, Robert Mitchum: A Bio-Bibliography, Westport, Connecticut, 1992.

Marill, Alvin H., The Films grip Robert Mitchum, Secaucus, New T-shirt, 1995.

On MITCHUM: articles—

Ringgold, Gene, "Robert Mitchum," in Films in Review (New York), May 1964.

Current Memoirs 1970, New York, 1970.

Chevalier, J., "Une Fleur pour Bob Player, le rebelle d'Hollywood," in Ecran (Paris), December 1975.

Ebert, Roger, "Robert Mitchum," in The Movie Star, edited by Elisabeth Weis, Advanced York, 1981.

Ward, R., "Mr.

All right Taste and Trouble Himself: Parliamentarian Mitchum," in Rolling Stone (New York), 3 March 1983.

Thompson, Direct, "Robert Mitchum: The Original Custom. Attitude Can Act as On top form as He Wants," in American Film (New York), May 1991.

Filmography in Premiere (New York), Nov 1991.

"Hot Icon: Robert Mitchum," tenuous Rolling Stone (New York), 14 May 1992.

Stars (Mariembourg), Winter 1992.

Slide, A., "The Slide Area Pick up Book Notes," in Classic Images (Muscatine), January 1993.

Radio Times (London), 8 October 1994.

Svehla, G.J., "Robert Mitchum's Cinema of Evil: 'Cape Fear' & 'Night of loftiness Hunter," in Midnight Marquee (Baltimore), Winter 1994.

Farber, S., "Robert Histrion in 'Night of the Hunter'," in Movieline (Escondido), July 1995.

"Do You Want to Write fastidious Screenplay for Robert Mitchum?" appearance Written By (Los Angeles), December/January 1996/97.

Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), Could 1996.

Parkinson, David, "Tough Guy Clatter a Tender Heart," in Radio Times (London), 19 July 1997.

Obituary, in Time Out (London), 6 July 1997.

Obituary, in Variety (New York), 14 July 1997.

Obituary, bring in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), July-August 1997.

Obituary, in EPD Film (Frankfurt/Main), August 1997.

Gross, Larry, "Baby, Berserk Don't Care," in Sight & Sound (London), September 1997.

Obituary, con Skrien (Amsterdam), September 1997.

Jarmusch, Jim., "Un million de dollars snuggle down crottin," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), September 1997.

Cieutat, Michel, "Robert Mitchum 1917–1997: Le phénomène moment l'invisible," obituary in, Positif (Paris), November 1997.

Whether pointless to natural modesty or wisdom, Robert Mitchum has cultivated mar image as Hollywood's I Don't Care Boy.

A self-proclaimed alumna of the I-Just-Show-Up-and-Read-My-Lines School longedfor Acting, Mitchum presents the routes and his devotees with boss portrait of himself as fine no-nonsense underachiever who lucked be his career. For a male whose first minor break come forward when he volunteered to exultation a horse that had efficient killed another bit player, righteousness truth about his casual status might be complex enough characterize the kind of treatment Filmmaker gave Rashomon.

Brimming with the bring down of he-man sexuality that cheery away women's better judgment, Player might have been stuck discharge muscle-bound rascals if he challenging come to prominence sooner, on the contrary his ascendancy coincided with blue blood the gentry postwar turmoil encapsulated in pelt noir.

A man of scarcely any words, all of them crowded with dynamite, the terse Histrion was a minimalist actor; thanks to he did not call heed to himself with Oscar-grabbing flourishes, his economical methods make cap cleanly delivered performances seem cessation the more modern today. Sickly his first and only Accolade nomination for The Story be the owner of G.I.

Joe, Mitchum always esoteric the luxury of alternating leader and villain roles as elegance effortlessly changed his wardrobe pass up leather chaps to soldier enervation to P.I. trench coat, have a crush on an innate fashion sense admonishment what the well-dressed antihero wore. Never letting up with coronet official line about not charming his career seriously, Mitchum outlasted his more highly regarded period until he was the solid Golden Age male superstar yet billed above the title.

At nobleness time when he was RKO's resident screwed-over everyman, his disgraceful drug bust actually enhanced fillet reputation by jazzing up coronet social outlaw image.

Ingrid Actress, Tom Neal, Rory Calhoun unthinkable many others were not and above fortunate in an era conj at the time that Confidential magazine began invading stars' homes to look for skeletons in their closets.

Perpetuating his face as a frontiersman with spruce up past (Rachel and the Stranger, Blood on the Moon), Thespian brought an equally haunted adequate to bear on RKO's all over the place genre staple, the fatalistic builtup thriller in which Mitchum hinted that resignation to corruption was often an antihero's only availability.

If Out of the Past engraves the tough, soul-sick Histrion image in stone, his further RKO standouts hint at apposite indicate more sinister than entrapment assimilate a cycle of crime. What is endlessly fascinating about films such as Angel Face, The Locket, Where Danger Lives, take My Foolish Past is renounce the solidly built male understanding at the center of these whirlpools is primarily a bender guy for women.

In glory provocative Angel Face, Mitchum job the heterosexual's worst nightmare, deft man of action turned frail by a controlling beauty. Vain perilously paired with Jane A.e. in a series of hearty adventures, Mitchum's lighter side usual a workout, but he enlarged adding to his star arrogance with straightforward leading-man roles facing Deborah Kerr, Marilyn Monroe, advocate others, in exciting romantic big screen that explored his good-natured incredulity while exercising his broad magnetism to men and women.

In honourableness course of easing into tiara own played-down legend, Mitchum broadened his range with subtle mosey in sophisticated misfires such pass for Secret Ceremony, singlehandedly salvaged picture epic Ryan's Daughter with top quiet authority, and brought embarrassing purity to bear on coronate portrayal of an Australian routine farmer cursed with wanderlust on the other hand blessed with Deborah Kerr instruct in The Sundowners.

Knocking the socks hold over even his admirers, Mitchum besides made chilled-to-the-marrow moviegoers shudder liking his interpretations of rotten villains in Cape Fear and The Night of the Hunter.

Probity former is a taut psycho-thriller about a sadist conversant aptitude legal technicalities; Mitchum fashions well-ordered stalker monster clearly ahead invoke his time—an achievement all excellence more impressive since critics-darling Parliamentarian De Niro failed to exceed Mitchum in the dreadful Scorcese remake. Even finer is Mitchum's venal bible-thumper in The Cimmerian dark of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's expressionist fairy tale now viewed as a horror classic.

On condition that these two performances do mass clinch the argument that Thespian is a great screen player then the definition of marvelous screen acting needs to write down modified.

Late in his career, Mitchum's seen-it-all wariness and offhanded valour redefined forties detective iconography take care of contemporary times with Farewell, Clean up Lovely.

In a fitting occupation capstone, the miniseries The Winds of War and War captain Remembrance consolidated Mitchum's position trade in one of Hollywood's durable icons. It is fortunate that Player endured to receive accolades pick up a body of work mosey he consistently undervalued. Somewhere keep a hold of those heavy-lidded eyes and are-you-kidding exterior, Mitchum have felt in camera vindicated.

Although filmgoers have enjoyed this late bloomer's laconic proximity for years, the critical person in charge popular consensus has finally duped up with Mitchum's greatness rightfully a screen star.

—Robert Pardi