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ROBERT MITCHUM BIOGRAPHY

• Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer known for his roles in movies such as Out of the Past, The Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear.

• Robert Mitchum was born on August 6, 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut to Harriet Gunderson and James Thomas Mitchum.  His father passed away when he was only a year and a half old.

• His youth was very turbulent.  He failed out of schools, was in a lot of fights and even traveling around the country as a vagrant. 

• In 1936 he calmed down a little bit and went to live with his sister.  Upon her recommendation, he joined the local theater guild in Long Beach, California.

• In 1940 he married Dorothy Spence who he originally met while traveling around the country. 

• He then began appearing in a number of westerns in 1942-1943.  In 1944, he signed a contract with RKO and appeared in a few more westerns, including Nevada.

•  In 1946, he appeared in the critically acclaimed The Story of G.I. Joe.  He was nominated for an Academy award for Best Supporting Actor (his only nomination).

• During the late 1940s and 1950s he regularly appeared in many gangster movies known as film noir movies such as Crossfire (1947) [which was nominated for five Academy Awards] and Out of The Past (1947) co-starring Kirk Douglas, Rachel and the Stranger (1948), Angel Face (1952) and The Night of the Hunter (1955).

• In the late 1950s and the 1960s, the film noir movies came to an end, but Mitchum continued to star in other great movies in other genres such as Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), The Sundowners (1960), Home From the Hill (1960), Cape Fear (1962) and The Longest Day (1962) co-starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda.

• Mitchum, besides being an actor, was also a singer.  In fact, he recorded two albums Calypso--Is Like So in 1957 and ten year's later, recorded his second album, That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings which reached #35 on the country charts.

• The 1970s brought about more movie roles for Mitchum who took on various roles, and even came back to do crime drama movies.   The decade began with Ryan's Daughter (1970) in which he was passed up for an Academy Award nomination and the well received The Yakuza (1975).

• In the 1980s, he continued to do a number of movies.  He also took his talents to the smaller screen in made-for-movie big budget mini-series such as The Winds of War (1983) and War and Rememberance (1988).  By the 1990s, the number of film roles began to slow down.

•  Robert Mitchum passed away on July 1, 1997 due to complications from Lung Cancer and Emphasema.

Biography by Ian Ripley, PopStarsPlus.com, Sr. Staff Writer

 

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The Magic of Make-Up (1942) (documentary)
The Human Comedy (1943)
Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
Aerial Gunner (1943)
Border Patrol (1943)
Follow the Band (1943)
The Leather Burners (1943)
Colt Comrades (1943)
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Lone Star Trail (1943)
Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
Corvette K-225 (1943)
Bar 20 (1943)
Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
False Colors (1943)
Minesweeper (1943)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
Riders of the Deadline (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1944)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
When Strangers Marry (1944)
Girl Rush (1944)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
Nevada (1944)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
West of the Pecos (1945)
Till the End of Time (1946)
Undercurrent (1946)
The Locket (1946)
Pursued (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
The Red Pony (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
Holiday Affair (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950) (short subject)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
The Racket (1951)
Macao (1952)
One Minute to Zero (1952)

The Lusty Men (1952)
Angel Face (1952)
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Second Chance (1953)
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Man with the Gun (1955)
Foreign Intrigue (1956)

Bandido (1956)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Fire Down Below (1957)
The Enemy Below (1957)
Thunder Road (1958)

The Hunters (1958)
The Angry Hills (1959)
The Wonderful Country (1959)
Home from the Hill (1960)
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Grass Is Greener (1960)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (Cameo)
Rampage (1963)
Man in the Middle (1964)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Mister Moses (1965)
El Dorado (1966)
The Way West (1967)
Villa Rides (1968)
Anzio (1968)
5 Card Stud (1968)
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Young Billy Young (1969)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Going Home (1971)
The Wrath of God (1972)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
The Yakuza (1975)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Midway (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Amsterdam Kill (1977)
Matilda (1978)
The Big Sleep (1978)
Breakthrough (1979)
Agency (1980)
Nightkill (1980)
That Championship Season (1982)
The Winds of War (1983) (Miniseries)
The Ambassador (1984)
Maria's Lovers (1984)
North and South (1985) (Miniseries)
Remembering Marilyn (1987) (documentary)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) (documentary)
Mr. North (1988)
War and Remembrance (1988) (Miniseries)
Scrooged (1988)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) (documentary)
The Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)
Midnight Ride (1990)
Waiting for the Wind (1990) (short subject)
Believed Violent (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1992)
Woman of Desire (1993)
Tombstone (1993) (narrator)
Backfire! (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Waiting for Sunset (1995)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)
James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997)

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