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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for starring roles in several classic films noirs, and his acting is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known films include Out of the Past (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Cape Fear (1962), and El Dorado (1966). Mitchum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Stor

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Filmography

Cape Fear

1991
as Lieutenant Elgart

Second Chance

1953
as Russ Lambert

Midway

1976
as Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.

The Amsterdam Kill

1977
as Quinlan

The Last Time I Saw Archie

1961
as Archie Hall

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1989
as Himself

Mister Moses

1965
as Joe Moses

False Colors

1943
as Rip Austin (as Bob Mitchum)

Mr. North

1988
as Mr. Bosworth

Desire Me

1947
as Paul Aubert

The Lone Star Trail

1943
as Ben Slocum

Agency

1980
as Ted Quinn .

Holiday Affair

1949
as Steve Mason

The Red Pony

1949
as Billy Buck

The Hunters

1958
as Major Cleve Saville

That Championship Season

1982
as Coach Delaney

His Kind of Woman

1951
as Dan Milner

The Big Sleep

1978
as Philip Marlowe

Man with the Gun

1955
as Clint Tollinger

River of No Return

1954
as Matt Calder

Follow the Band

1943
as Tate Winters

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

2017
as Robert Mitchum

Ryan's Daughter

1970
as Charles Shaughnessy

Bar 20

1943
as Richard Adams (as Bob Mitchum)

Hoodwinked

1989
as Jake Spanner

Not as a Stranger

1955
as Dr. Lucas Marsh

Woman of Desire

1994
as Walter J. Hill

Thompson's Last Run

1986
as Johnny Thompson

Brotherhood of the Rose

1989
as John Eliot

Villa Rides

1968
as Lee Arnold

Foreign Intrigue

1956
as Dave Bishop

White Witch Doctor

1953
as John 'Lonni' Douglas

El Dorado

1966
as Sheriff J.P. Harrah

Marilyn

1963

The Hearst and Davies Affair

1985
as William Randolph Hearst

Undercurrent

1946
as Michael Garroway

Maria's Lovers

1984
as Ivan's Father

Till the End of Time

1946
as William J. Tabeshaw

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

1969
as Flagg

The Eyes of War

1989
as Host & Narrator

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

2000
as Robert Mitchum

The Locket

1946
as Norman Clyde

Home from the Hill

1960
as Captain Wade Hunnicutt

Out of the Past

1947
as Jeff Bailey

Promises to Keep

1985
as Jack Palmer

Midnight Ride

1990
as Dr. Hardy

Where Danger Lives

1950
as Dr. Jeff Cameron

Macao

1952
as Nick Cochran

Bandido!

1956
as Wilson

The Ambassador

1984
as Peter Hacker

Riders of the Deadline

1943
as Nick Drago (as Bob Mitchum)

La classe américaine

1993
as Yves

What a Way to Go!

1964
as Rod Anderson, Jr.

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991
as Robert Mitchum

A Family For Joe

1990
as Joe Whitaker

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1944
as Bob Gray

The Big Steal

1949
as Lt. Duke Halliday

Doughboys in Ireland

1943
as Ernie Jones

The Way West

1967
as Dick Summers

We've Never Been Licked

1943
as Panhandle Mitchell

Man in the Middle

1963
as Lt. Col. Barney Adams

The Enemy Below

1957
as Capt. Murrell

The Racket

1951
as Captain Thomas McQuigg

One Shoe Makes it Murder

1982
as Harold Shillman

Crossfire

1947
as Keeley

A Killer in the Family

1983
as Gary Tison

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

2019

Anzio

1968
as Dick Ennis (war correspondent, International Press)

Colt Comrades

1943
as Dirk Mason (as Bob Mitchum)

The Wonderful Country

1959
as Martin Brady

Dead Man

1995
as John Dickinson

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

1995
as Robert Mitchum

Secret Ceremony

1968
as Albert

The Winds of War

1983
as Victor 'Pug' Henry

The Sundowners

1960
as Paddy Carmody

Pulp Cinema

2001
as Robert Mitchum

Cape Fear

1962
as Max Cady

Nightkill

1980
as Donner/Rodriguez

The Grass Is Greener

1960
as Charles Delacro

James Dean: Race with Destiny

1997
as George Stevens

The Yakuza

1974
as Harry Kilmer

Scrooged

1988
as Grace Cooley

Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe

1945
as Bill Walker

Two for the Seesaw

1962
as Jerry Ryan

When Strangers Marry

1944
as Fred Graham

African Skies

The Wrath of God

1972
as Father Oliver Van Horne

Reunion at Fairborough

1985
as Carl Hostrup

Rampage

1963
as Harry Stanton

Going Home

1971
as Harry K. Graham

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

1973
as Eddie "Fingers" Coyle

Track of the Cat

1954
as Curt Bridges

Fire Down Below

1957
as Felix Bowers

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957
as Cpl. Allison, USMC

West of the Pecos

1945
as Pecos Smith

The Night of the Hunter

1955
as Harry Powell

Minesweeper

1943
as Seaman Chuck Ryan

The Angry Hills

1959
as Mike Morrison

Rachel and the Stranger

1948
as Jim Fairways

Matilda

1978
as Duke Parkhurst

She Couldn't Say No

1953
as Doctor Robert Sellers

Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'

2002
as Robert Mitchum

Nevada

1944
as Jim Lacy aka Nevada

Beyond the Last Frontier

1943
as Trigger Dolan (as Bob Mitchum)

Présumé dangereux

1990

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1944
as CPO Jeff Daniels

Young Billy Young

1969
as Deputy Ben Kane

Girl Rush

1944
as Jimmy Smith

Tombstone

1993
as Narrator (voice)

The Last Tycoon

1976
as Pat Brady

Gung Ho!

1943
as 'Pig iron' Matthews

One Minute to Zero

1952
as Col. Steve Janowski

My Forbidden Past

1951
as Dr. Mark Lucas

The Longest Day

1962
as Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

A Family for Joe

1990

Farewell, My Lovely

1975
as Philip Marlowe

Pursued

1947
as Jeb

A Terrible Beauty

1960
as Dermot O'Neill

Angel Face

1952
as Frank Jessup

The List of Adrian Messenger

1963
as Slattery

The Lusty Men

1952
as Jeff McCloud

War and Remembrance

1988
as Victor "Pug" Henry

Thunder Road

1958
as Lucas Doolin

Blood on the Moon

1948
as Jim Garry

5 Card Stud

1968
as Reverend Jonathan Rudd

Breakthrough

1979
as Col. Rogers

Border Patrol

1943
as Quinn (as Bob Mitchum)

Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood

2017
as Self (archive footage)

Backfire!

1995
as Marshal Marc Marshall

Director

Movie The Funniest Way in Earth's Atmosphere 1993

Writer

Movie Thunder Road 1958

Producer

Movie Thunder Road 1958

Guest Star

Episode The Equalizer
Mission: McCall (1) 		1987
Episode The Equalizer
Mission: McCall (2) 		1987
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Robert Mitchum 		1972
Episode Saturday Night Live
Robert Mitchum/Simply Red 		1987
Episode North and South
Summer 1842 - Summer 1844 		1985
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Robert Mitchum 		1972
Episode What's My Line?
Robert Mitchum 		1965
Episode The Frank Sinatra Show
Robert Mitchum 		1958
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Super Dave Osborne, Robert Mitchum 		1988
Episode Discovering Film
Discovering Robert Mitchum 		2014
Episode Hopalong Cassidy
Riders of the Deadline 		1943
Episode Hopalong Cassidy
BAR 20 		1943
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Robert Mitchum 		1971