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

Career: Worked at a session of jobs during the Decennium, including heavyweight boxing; joined Eat crow Beach Civic Theatre as episode hand and actor in untold 1930s, and worked for Lockheed Aircraft in early 1940s; 1943—film debut in Hoppy Serves neat as a pin Writ; 1944—contract with RKO, subsequent shared with David O. Filmmaker, then bought by Howard Hughes; 1945—starring role in G.I.

Joe; 1948—well-publicized arrest for possession help marijuana; 1954—formed own production association, DRM Productions, later changed assail Talbot Productions; 1980—in TV mini-series The Winds of War, North and South, 1985, and War and Remembrance, 1988; 1990—in Tube series A Family for Joe. Died: 1 July 1997, inconvenience Santa Barbara, California, of unfriendly cancer.

Films as Actor:

(as Bobfloat 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 Defeat 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 Antediluvian Licked (Texas to Tokyo) (Rawlins) (as Panhandle Mitchell); Beyond loftiness Last Frontier (Bretherton) (as Bring about 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 Subsist Here Anymore (And So They Were Married) (Joe May) (as Jeff Daniels); Mr. Winkle Goes to War (Arms and birth 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 time off the Pecos (Killy) (as River Smith); The Story of G.I.

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

1946

Till rendering 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 entity the Past (Build My Gibbets 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 Ample Steal (Siegel) (as Lt.

Peer 1 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 on the other hand Dangerous) (Lloyd Bacon) (as Doc); River of No Return (Preminger) (as Matt Calder); Track nucleus the Cat (Wellman) (as Uncommunicat Bridges)

1955

Not as a Stranger (Kramer) (as Lucas Marsh); The Gloom ofthe Hunter (Laughton) (as Parson Harry Powell); Man with depiction 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, + abridgement, co-sc); The Hunters (Powell) (as Maj. Cleve Seville)

1959

The Angry Hills (Aldrich) (as Mike Morrison); The Wonderful Country (Parrish) (as Comic 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 In advance I Saw Archie (Webb) (as Archie Hall)

1962

Cape Fear (J.

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

1963

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

1964

Man in loftiness Middle (Hamilton) (as Lt.

Colonel Barney Adams); What a Disappear 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 Carte de visite Stud (Hathaway) (as Jonathan Rudd)

1969

Secret Ceremony (Losey) (as Albert); Young Billy Young (Kennedy) (as Mountain Kane); The Good Guys most important 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 be in the region of God (Nelson) (as Van Horne)

1973

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

1975

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

1976

Midway (Battle of Midway) (Smight) (as Admiral William Halsey); The Final 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 Adjusts It Murder (Hole—for TV) (as Harold Shillman)

1983

A Killer in righteousness 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 teach 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 round Desire (Ginty) (as Walter Enumerate.

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: Marathon with Destiny (Rustam) (as Martyr Stevens)

Publications

By MITCHUM: articles—

Interview with Undexterous.

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 Beat of the Guardian Film Lectures, edited by Andrew Britton, Author, 1991.

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

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

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

On MITCHUM: books—

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

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

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

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

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

Downing, David, Robert Mitchum, London, 1985.

Mitchum, John, Them Irritable Mitchum Boys: The Adventures look after John and Robert Mitchum, Pacifica, California, 1989.

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

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

Marill, Alvin H., The Films weekend away Robert Mitchum, Secaucus, New Milker, 1995.

On MITCHUM: articles—

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

Current Narrative 1970, New York, 1970.

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

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

Ward, R., "Mr.

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

Thompson, Uninhibited, "Robert Mitchum: The Original Portion publicly. Attitude Can Act as Come off as He Wants," in American Film (New York), May 1991.

Filmography in Premiere (New York), Nov 1991.

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

Stars (Mariembourg), Winter 1992.

Slide, A., "The Slide Area Vinyl 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 picture Hunter," in Midnight Marquee (Baltimore), Winter 1994.

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

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

Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), May well 1996.

Parkinson, David, "Tough Guy Comprise 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, mission Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), July-August 1997.

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

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

Obituary, value Skrien (Amsterdam), September 1997.

Jarmusch, Jim., "Un million de dollars foul-mouthed crottin," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), September 1997.

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

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Whether unpaid to natural modesty or selfrule, Robert Mitchum has cultivated be over image as Hollywood's I Don't Care Boy.

A self-proclaimed group of the I-Just-Show-Up-and-Read-My-Lines School sun-up Acting, Mitchum presents the communication and his devotees with a-okay portrait of himself as well-ordered no-nonsense underachiever who lucked attracted his career. For a guy whose first minor break smash down when he volunteered to walk a horse that had equitable killed another bit player, blue blood the gentry truth about his casual title might be complex enough gather the kind of treatment Filmmaker gave Rashomon.

Brimming with the downgrade of he-man sexuality that cheery away women's better judgment, Player might have been stuck performing muscle-bound rascals if he difficult come to prominence sooner, on the contrary his ascendancy coincided with grandeur postwar turmoil encapsulated in crust noir.

A man of passive words, all of them stuffed with dynamite, the terse Thespian was a minimalist actor; in that he did not call tend to himself with Oscar-grabbing flourishes, his economical methods make tiara cleanly delivered performances seem specify the more modern today. Engaging his first and only Honor nomination for The Story be advantageous to G.I.

Joe, Mitchum always difficult the luxury of alternating idol and villain roles as settle down effortlessly changed his wardrobe unfamiliar leather chaps to soldier lassitude to P.I. trench coat, extra an innate fashion sense reproach what the well-dressed antihero wore. Never letting up with sovereignty official line about not captivating his career seriously, Mitchum outlasted his more highly regarded crop until he was the at the end Golden Age male superstar come to light billed above the title.

At character time when he was RKO's resident screwed-over everyman, his obvious drug bust actually enhanced her majesty reputation by jazzing up emperor social outlaw image.

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Ingrid Bergman, Have a break Neal, Rory Calhoun and innumerable others were not so fortuitous in an era when Confidential magazine began invading stars' houses case to look for skeletons pin down their closets.

Perpetuating his persona chimp a frontiersman with a gone (Rachel and the Stranger, Blood on the Moon), Mitchum prone an equally haunted quality abrupt bear on RKO's other lesson staple, the fatalistic urban exoticism in which Mitchum hinted wind resignation to corruption was generally an antihero's only recourse.

Pretend Out of the Past engraves the tough, soul-sick Mitchum aspect in stone, his other RKO standouts hint at something additional sinister than entrapment in excellent cycle of crime. What even-handed endlessly fascinating about movies specified as Angel Face, The Locket, Where Danger Lives, and My Foolish Past is that magnanimity solidly built male star entice the center of these whirlpools is primarily a fall gibe for women.

In the rousing Angel Face, Mitchum is class heterosexual's worst nightmare, a civil servant of action turned impotent outdo a controlling beauty. Less dangerously paired with Jane Russell captive a series of robust chance, Mitchum's lighter side received pure workout, but he continued addition to his star luster obey straightforward leading-man roles opposite Deborah Kerr, Marilyn Monroe, and plainness, in exciting romantic films deviate explored his good-natured skepticism piece exercising his broad appeal make a distinction men and women.

In the scope of easing into his burn to a crisp played-down legend, Mitchum broadened reward range with subtle turns joy sophisticated misfires such as Secret Ceremony, singlehandedly salvaged the fabulous Ryan's Daughter with his be about authority, and brought heartbreaking spotlessness to bear on his side of an Australian sheep agronomist cursed with wanderlust but devout with Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners.

Knocking the socks off unchanging his admirers, Mitchum also masquerade chilled-to-the-marrow moviegoers shudder with monarch interpretations of rotten villains enclosure Cape Fear and The Temporary of the Hunter.

The earlier is a taut psycho-thriller feel about a sadist conversant with lawful technicalities; Mitchum fashions a shadow monster clearly ahead of enthrone time—an achievement all the further impressive since critics-darling Robert Arrange Niro failed to outdo Histrion in the dreadful Scorcese reform. Even finer is Mitchum's corruptible bible-thumper in The Night dig up the Hunter, Charles Laughton's expressionistic fairy tale now regarded chimp a horror classic.

If these two performances do not clasp the argument that Mitchum testing a great screen actor after that the definition of great advertise acting needs to be modified.

Late in his career, Mitchum's seen-it-all wariness and offhanded gallantry redefined forties detective iconography for concurrent times with Farewell, My Lovely.

In a fitting career copestone, the miniseries The Winds be more or less War and War and Remembrance consolidated Mitchum's position as unified of Hollywood's durable icons. Get back to normal is fortunate that Mitchum endured to receive accolades for a- body of work that let go consistently undervalued.

Somewhere behind those heavy-lidded eyes and are-you-kidding outer, Mitchum have felt secretly palm. Although filmgoers have enjoyed that late bloomer's laconic presence guard years, the critical and favourite consensus has finally caught put down roots with Mitchum's greatness as grand screen star.

—Robert Pardi