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Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1992. Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male stars of class…
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Born 6 August 1917 · Died 1 July 1997 · Q16472
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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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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
collider: Robert Mitchum Took on the Yakuza in This Stylish, Brutal Cult Classic From the '70s
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2024· 1 entry
collider: Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum Teamed Up for This Wildly Underrated Western Mystery
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2022· 2 entries
A historical marker commemorating Mitchum was unveiled in his father's hometown of Lane, South Carolina
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Yahoo: Filmed in Georgia: Robert Mitchum's history with Chatham County law influenced 'Cape Fear' role
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2021· 1 entry
Stars and Stripes: Robert Mitchum in Greece, 1958
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2010· 1 entry
Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker that "the ever-cool Mitchum radiates heat without warmth
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2006· 1 entry
That the film's "only classic credentials are a terrifying performance by Robert Mitchum and a Bernard Herrmann score
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1997· 6 entries
Released album “Tall Dark Stranger”.
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Died 1997-07-01.
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At his home in Santa Barbara, California, from complications of lung cancer and emphysema
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“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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“Yeah, I'm unique—like an actor who has only one eye in the middle of his forehead. Or the Elephant Man. I've got a patent on the type. To be an actor is to be a moveable freak. Once you have been up there on that giant screen, everybody knows you—and you know no one. It counts as a source of embarrassment.”
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“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. So I started blinking my eyes every time a gun went off in the scenes. That got me out of westerns.”
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1996· 1 entry
"Nobody who has seen The Night of the Hunter has forgotten it, or Mitchum's voice coiling down those basement stairs: 'Chillll
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “That Man”.
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (1993).
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1992· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1992).
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Narrating a promotional film for the latter that played at the Republican National Convention
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1991· 1 entry
Mitchum was set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
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1987· 1 entry
Mitchum was the guest host on Saturday Night Live, where he played private eye Philip Marlowe for the last time in the parody sketch "Death Be Not Deadly
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1984· 1 entry
Mitchum entered the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, California, for treatment of alcoholism
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1982· 1 entry
Mitchum played Coach Delaney in the film adaptation of playwright/actor Jason Miller's 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season
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1973· 1 entry
Andrew Sarris pointed out that Mitchum, with his stoic presence on the screen that was "mistaken for a stone face without feelings," had been "grossly maligned as an actor," while he was actually "reborn in every movie,
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “That Man Robert Mitchum...Sings”.
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1965· 1 entry
Mitchum starred in Mister Moses, opposite Carroll Baker, as a diamond smuggler in Africa who is mistaken for a modern-day Moses and trusted by a tribe to lead them to a promised land
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1962· 1 entry
Mitchum costarred with Gregory Peck in Cape Fear, playing an ex-convict seeking revenge on the attorney who testified against him
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1959· 2 entries
Mitchum appeared in Robert Aldrich's thriller The Angry Hills as an American war correspondent entrusted with a list of Greek resistance leaders during World War II, before starring in his third DRM production, The Wonde
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Mitchum developed a new passion for quarter horse breeding and, for the next several years, gradually became indifferent to selecting his films, also losing interest in his work as a producer
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1957· 2 entries
Dick Powell's World War II submarine film The Enemy Below, in which he played the captain of a US Navy destroyer who matches wits with a wily German U-boat skipper, portrayed by Curt Jurgens
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Released album “Calypso - Is Like So…”.
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1956· 1 entry
Following the poorly received color noir Foreign Intrigue
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1955· 2 entries
Mitchum formed DRM Productions, named after his and his wife's initials, and signed a five-film deal with United Artists; four ultimately were produced
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Was The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's only film as a director
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1954· 1 entry
Mitchum reteamed with Simmons in the romantic comedy She Couldn't Say No, his last film released by RKO
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1953· 1 entry
Mitchum starred in Otto Preminger's Angel Face, the first of his three films with Jean Simmons
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1952· 1 entry
And may have been witnessed by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum
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1951· 1 entry
Said, "Robert Mitchum performs somnambulistically
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1948· 1 entry
During the rise of his career, Mitchum was arrested for possession of marijuana with actress Lila Leeds
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1947· 1 entry
Released album “Rachel and the Stranger”.
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1946· 1 entry
Mitchum appeared in Till the End of Time, Edward Dmytryk's box office hit about returning Marine veterans, with Dorothy McGuire and Guy Madison, before migrating to a genre that came to define his career and screen perso
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1944· 1 entry
Mitchum signed a seven-year contract with RKO at an initial salary of $350 per week, effective June 1
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1940· 3 entries
In the kitchen of a Methodist parson in Dover, Delaware
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During this trip and then moved back to California with her
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Mitchum married Dorothy on March 16, 1940, in the kitchen of a Methodist parson in Dover, Delaware.
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1939· 1 entry
Wrote and composed an oratorio that was produced and directed by Orson Welles and performed at a benefit for Jewish refugees
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1934· 1 entry
Mitchum immediately fell for her, and the two had begun a serious relationship by the time he left for California in 1934.
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1929· 1 entry
Mitchum and his younger brother were sent to Philadelphia to live with their older sister, Julie, who had started her career as a performer in vaudeville acts on the East Coast
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1926· 1 entry
His mother sent him and his younger brother to live with her parents on a farm near Woodside, Delaware
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1917· 2 entries
Into a Methodist family of Scots-Irish, Native American, and Norwegian descent
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Born 1917-08-06.
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