Robert Mitchum

1917-1997

Biography: life and films

Robert Mitchum was an American actor and producer whose birth name was Robert Charles Durman Mitchum. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA on 6th August 1917 and died in Santa Barbara, California, USA on 1st July 1997, aged 79.

His best films as an actor include John Brahm's thriller The Locket (1946), Jacques Tourneur's crime-thriller Out of the Past (1947), Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), Andrew Solt's Remembering Marilyn (1987) and Frank Martin's John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989).

Robert Mitchum appeared in 113 films and directed 1 film.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Lesley Selander (4 films), J. Lee Thompson (3), Edward Dmytryk (3), William A. Wellman (2), Vincente Minnelli (2), Tay Garnett (2), Robert Wise (2), Robert Parrish (2), Otto Preminger (2), John Huston (2), Henry Hathaway (2), George Archainbaud (2), Edward Killy (2), Dick Powell (2), Burt Kennedy (2) and Andrew V. McLaglen (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (55 films), Western (29), War (23), Thriller (22), comedy (12), romance (11), crime-thriller (9), comedy-romance (7), Documentary (7), history (5), comedy-drama (5) and Biography (4).

Our average rating for Robert Mitchum over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director

'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943) [a]

Aerial Gunner (1943) [a]

Bar 20 (1943) [a]

Beyond the Last Frontier (1943) [a]

Border Patrol (1943) [a]

Colt Comrades (1943) [a]

Cry 'Havoc' (1943) [a]

Doughboys in Ireland (1943) [a]

False Colors (1943) [a]

Follow the Band (1943) [a]

Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943) [a]

Leather Burners (1943) [a]

Minesweeper (1943) [a]

Riders of the Deadline (1943) [a]

The Dancing Masters (1943) [a]

The Lone Star Trail (1943) [a]

We've Never Been Licked (1943) [a]

Girl Rush (1944) [a]

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1944) [a]

Nevada (1944) [a]

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) [a]

When Strangers Marry (1944) [a]

Story of G.I. Joe (1945) [a]

West of the Pecos (1945) [a]

The Locket (1946) [a]

Till the End of Time (1946) [a]

Undercurrent (1946) [a]

Crossfire (1947) [a]

Desire Me (1947) [a]

Out of the Past (1947) [a]

Pursued (1947) [a]

Blood on the Moon (1948) [a]

Rachel and the Stranger (1948) [a]

Holiday Affair (1949) [a]

The Big Steal (1949) [a]

The Red Pony (1949) [a]

Where Danger Lives (1950) [a]

His Kind of Woman (1951) [a]

My Forbidden Past (1951) [a]

The Racket (1951) [a]

Angel Face (1952) [a]

Macao (1952) [a]

One Minute to Zero (1952) [a]

The Lusty Men (1952) [a]

Second Chance (1953) [a]

White Witch Doctor (1953) [a]

River of No Return (1954) [a]

She Couldn't Say No (1954) [a]

Track of the Cat (1954) [a]

Man with the Gun (1955) [a]

Not as a Stranger (1955) [a]

The Night of the Hunter (1955) [a]

Bandido (1956) [a]

Foreign Intrigue (1956) [a]

Fire Down Below (1957) [a]

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) [a]

The Enemy Below (1957) [a]

The Hunters (1958) [a]

Thunder Road (1958) [a]

The Angry Hills (1959) [a]

The Wonderful Country (1959) [a]

A Terrible Beauty (1960) [a]

Home from the Hill (1960) [a]

The Grass Is Greener (1960) [a]

The Sundowners (1960) [a]

The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961) [a]

Cape Fear (1962) [a]

Two for the Seesaw (1962) [a]

Man in the Middle (1963) [a]

Marilyn (1963) [a]

Rampage (1963) [a]

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) [a]

What a Way to Go! (1964) [a]

Mister Moses (1965) [a]

El Dorado (1966) [a]

The Way West (1967) [a]

5 Card Stud (1968) [a]

Lo Sbarco di Anzio (1968) [a]

Secret Ceremony (1968) [a]

Villa Rides (1968) [a]

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) [a]

Young Billy Young (1969) [a]

Ryan's Daughter (1970) [a]

Going Home (1971) [a]

The Wrath of God (1972) [a]

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [a]

The Yakuza (1974) [a]

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) [a]

Midway (1976) [a]

The Last Tycoon (1976) [a]

The Amsterdam Kill (1977) [a]

Matilda (1978) [a]

The Big Sleep (1978) [a]

Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (1979) [a]

Agency (1980) [a]

Nightkill (1980) [a]

That Championship Season (1982) [a]

Maria's Lovers (1984) [a]

The Ambassador (1984) [a]

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) [a]

Remembering Marilyn (1987) [a]

Mr. North (1988) [a]

Scrooged (1988) [a]

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) [a]

Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) [a]

Midnight Ride (1990) [a]

Présumé dangereux (1990) [a]

Cape Fear (1991) [a]

Les Sept péchés capitaux (1992) [a]

Woman of Desire (1993) [a]

Backfire! (1995) [a]

Dead Man (1995) [a]

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) [a]



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