Person Details

Birthday: 1903-08-14 05:25:31

Death: 1953-10-13 05:25:31

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

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Movie Involvements: 19

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Millard Mitchell (August 14, 1903 – October 13, 1953) was an American character actor whose credits include roughly thirty feature films and two television appearances. Born in Havana, Cuba, Mitchell appeared as a bit player in eight films between 1931 and 1936. He returned to film work in 1942 after a six-year absence. Between 1942 and 1953, Mitchell was a successful supporting actor. For his performance in the 1952 film, My Six Convicts, Millard Mitchell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Mitchell is also known for his role as Col. Rufus Plummer in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948), as Gregory Peck's commanding officer in the war drama Twelve O'Clock High (1949), and as movie mogul "R. F. Simpson" in the musical comedy Singin' in the Rain (1952). Mitchell died at the age of fifty from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Millard Mitchell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Twelve O'Clock High
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Twelve O'Clock High

(1949) Major General Patrick Pritchard
The Naked Spur
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7

The Naked Spur

(1953) Jesse Tate
The Gunfighter
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7

The Gunfighter

(1950) Marshal Mark Strett
Winchester '73
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7

Winchester '73

(1950) High Spade
Kiss of Death
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7

Kiss of Death

(1947) Detective (uncredited)
Thieves' Highway
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7

Thieves' Highway

(1949) Ed Kinney
The Big Street
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7

The Big Street

(1942) Gentleman George (Uncredited)
Convicted
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Convicted

(1950) Malloby

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2002 Self (archive footage)
1988 Self (archive footage)
1953 Albert Snodgrass
Jesse Tate
1952 R.F. Simpson
James T. Connie
1951 Bill Dempsey
George Larrabee
1950 "Mac" McIntire
Malloby
High Spade
Marshal Mark Strett
1949 Major General Patrick Pritchard
Mike Craig
Ed Kinney
1948 Col. Rufus J. Plummer
1947 Al Cooley
Detective (uncredited)
1946 Steve
1943 Baldwin
Accident Victim (uncredited)
1942 Herman
McCarthy
Gentleman George (Uncredited)
Detective Arthur Doolin
Mullins
1940 Photographer
1932 Second Sailor
1931 Courtroom Spectator
Trooper
Freshmen
Policeman
Secretary (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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