Robert Mitchum

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Acting career

Julie Mitchum came to the West Coast in the hopes of acting in films, and the Mitchum family followed her to Long Beach, California, in the mid-1930s. Robert was born in 1936. Mitchum served as a ghostwriter for astrologer Carroll Righter during this period. Julie persuaded him to join the local theater guild with her. Mitchum spent time in Long Beach as a stagehand and occasional bit-player in company productions. He also wrote several short pieces that were not performed by the guild. Mitchum put his poetry skills to use in writing song lyrics and monologues for Julie's nightclub appearances, according to Lee Server's biography (Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care).

He returned to Delaware to marry Dorothy Spence in 1940, and the couple moved back to California. At the birth of their first child, James, nicknamed Josh, was a writer, but two more children, Chris and Petrine, followed. Mitchum served as a machine operator during World War II with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, but the noise of the machines impaired his hearing. He also had a nervous breakdown (which resulted in temporary vision problems) as a result of work-related stress.

He then auditioned for film work, first as an extra and in small speaking roles. Harry Sherman, the creator of Mitchum was hired to appear in minor roles in many films in the series between 1942 and 1943, according to his agent. In the 1943 film The Human Comedy starring Mickey Rooney, he was uncredited as a soldier. In 1943 as a Marine private in Randolph Scott's war film Gung Ho, he was his first on-screen appearance. Mitchum found work as an extra and supporting actor in a number of productions for various studios.

Mitchum completed a seven-year deal with RKO Radio Pictures after impressing director Mervyn LeRoy during the filming of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. In a string of Zane Grey adaptations, he was preparing for B-Western stardom. RKO lent Mitchum to United Artists for a prominent supporting actor role in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) is a student at the University of On the 29th of August, Joe (1945) was a member of the Club of Cooperatives. Bill Walker, the war-weary officer who was based on Captain Henry T. Waskow), remained resolute despite the challenges he faces. The film, which chronicled the life of an ordinary soldier through the eyes of journalist Ernie Pyle (played by Burgess Meredith), became an instant critical and commercial success. Mitchum was drafted into the United States Army and stationed as a medic at Fort MacArthur, California, shortly after filming. The Story of G.I. At the 1946 Academy Awards. Joe was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's first nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He ended the year with a Western (West of the Pecos) and a tale of returning Marine veterans (Till the End of Time) before migrating to a genre that came to define Mitchum's career and screen persona: film noir.

Mitchum was first known for his role in film noir. In 1944's B-movie When Strangers Marry, about newlyweds and a serial murderer in New York City, he was his first foray into the genre. He appeared in an early noir film, Undercurrent, as a troubled, complicated man entangled in the affairs of his tycoon brother (Robert Taylor) and his brother's unethical wife (Katharine Hepburn). Mitchum appears in John Brahm's The Locket (1946) as a bitter ex-boyfriend to Laraine Day's femme fatale. Pursued (1947) by Raoul Walsh mixed Western and noir, with Mitchum's character trying to recall his childhood and finding those responsible for killing his family. Mitchum was named as one of a group of returning World War II soldiers embroiled in a murder probe for an act committed by an anti-Semite in their ranks during Crossfire (also 1947). Robert Young, Mitchum, and Ryan Ryan were all nominated for five Academy Award nominations, according to Edward Dmytryk and starring (in order of billing).

Mitchum appeared in Out of the Past (also called Build My Gallows High), directed by Jacques Tourneur, and starring Nicholas Musuraca's cinematography. Mitchum played Jeff Markham, a small-town gas station owner and former prosecutor whose unfinished business with gambler Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas), and femme fatale Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer) comes back to haunt him.

After a string of hit films for RKO, Mitchum, and actress Lila Leeds, police were arrested on September 1, 1948, for smoking marijuana. The bust was the result of a sting operation that was supposed to capture other Hollywood actors as well, but Mitchum and Leeds did not receive the alert. Mitchum spent 43 days (February 16 to March 30) at a Castaic, California, prison farm after serving a week in the county jail (he described the experience to a reporter as "like Palm Springs" but without the riff-raff). Photographs of him posing in his prison uniform were allowed by life photographers. She Shoulda Said No! was inspired by the detention attempt. Leeds (1949), which starred George Clooney. Mitchum's plea was later reversed by the Los Angeles court and district attorney's office on January 31, 1951, after being identified as a setup.

Despite Mitchum's legal troubles and film loss without his company, his fame was not harmed, and films released immediately after his detention were box-office hits. Mitchum appeared in Rachel and the Stranger (1948) as the indentured servant and wife of William Holden. He appeared as a trusted cowhand to a ranching family in John Steinbeck's film adaptation The Red Pony (1949). In The Big Steal (also 1949), where he reunited with Jane Greer in an early Don Siegel film, he returned to film noir.

Mitchum played a doctor who works between a physically impaired Faith Domergue and cuckolded Claude Rains in Where Danger Lives (1950). Mitchum appeared in the Racket as a police captain fighting graft in his precinct. Mitchum appeared in the Josef von Sternberg film Macao (1952) as a victim of misidentified identity at an exotic resort casino, while Jane Russell appeared. Angel Face of Otto Preminger was the first of three Mitchum and British stage actress Jean Simmons' collaboration. Mitchum plays an ambulance driver who allows a murderous heiress to fatally seduce him.

Mitchum was banned from Blood Alley (1955) due to his behavior, according to rumors that the film's transportation manager was fired into San Francisco Bay. Mitchum appeared on stage after a night of drinking and tore apart a studio office if they did not have a car on hand for him, according to Sam O'Steen's book Cut to the Chase. Mitchum walked off the set of Blood Alley's third day of shooting claiming that he was incompatible with the producer. Because Mitchum turned up late and behaving erratically, producer John Wayne, who was unable to locate Humphrey Bogart as a replacement, took over the role.

Mitchum appeared in The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton's only film as director, as well as a string of traditional Westerns and films noir. Mitchum appeared as a devil in the man's house, based on a Davis Grubb novel. Reverend Harry Powell's performance is regarded by some as one of his finest performances of his career. Not as a Stranger, Stanley Kramer's melodrama, was also published in 1955 and was a box-office smash. Mitchum played an idealistic young doctor who marries an older nurse (Olivia de Havilland), but later come to question his morale many years later. However, the film was not well received by most observers, with many commenting that Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, and Lee Marvin were all too old for their roles. Olivia de Havilland's top billing over Mitchum and Sinatra was given top billing.

Mitchum formed DRM (Dorothy and Robert Mitchum) Productions on March 8, 1955, and four films were produced. Bandido (1956) was the first film to be released. Mitchum appeared in the first of three films with Deborah Kerr following a string of average Westerns and the poorly received Foreign Intrigue (1956). Mr. Allison, a John Huston war drama, portrayed Mitchum as a Marine corporal shipwrecked on a Pacific island with Sister Angela (Deborah Kerr), his sole companion. They wrestled with the elements, the Japanese garrison, and their growing desire for one-another in this character study. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Mitchum was nominated for the Best Foreign Actor Award by the British Academy for his role. Mitchum played the captain of a US Navy destroyer who meets wits with cunning German U-boat captain Curt Jurgens in the 1962 World War II epic The Longest Day.

Thunder Road (1958), the second DRM Production, was loosely based on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was believed to have fatally crashed on Kingston Pike, Tennessee, somewhere between Bearden Hill and Morrell Roads. According to Metro Pulse writer Jack Renfro, the incident occurred in 1952 and may have been witnessed by James Agee, who later relayed the story to Mitchum. He appeared, directed, produced, co-wrote the screenplay, and is thought to have produced a large portion of the film. James, his on-screen brother, was charged with the cost, which was not intended for Elvis Presley. "The Ballad of Thunder Road" co-wrote Mitchum (with Don Raye).

Mitchum and Julie London, and Ireland for A Terrible Beauty/The Night Fighters, his last DRM Productions, returned to Mexico for The Wonderful Country (1959).

Mitchum and Kerr reunited for the Fred Zinnemann film The Sundowners (1960), starring an Australian husband and wife struggling in the sheep business during the Great Depression. Mitchum received five Oscar nominations, as well as the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role. The award also praised his participation in the Vincente Minnelli rural drama Home from the Hill (also 1960). He was partnered with former top ladies Kerr and Simmons, as well as Cary Grant, on the Stanley Donen comedy The Grass Is Greener the same year.

Mitchum's appearance in Cape Fear (1962) as the feared rapist Max Cady drew him further into the spotlight for his portrayal of chilly, predatory characters. A number of lesser films marked the 1960s. He was one of Shirley MacLaine's all-star husbands in the film What a Way to Go! (1964) the inebriated sheriff of Howard Hawks Western El Dorado (1967), a quasi-remake of Rio Bravo (1959), and another WWII epic, Anzio (1968). He co-starred with Dean Martin in the 1968 Western 5 Card Stud, portraying a homicidal preacher.

Mitchum departed from his usual screen persona with the 1970 David Lean film My Daughter, in which he appeared as Charles Shaughnessy, a mild-mannered schoolmaster in World War I-era Ireland. Mitchum's new films, as well as a personal tragedy that had him contemplating suicide, were both critical and commercial failures at the time of filming, and he was going through a personal tragedy that had him considering suicide. After the film was finished, screenwriter Robert Bolt told him he could do so and that he would personally pay for his burial. Despite being nominated for four Academy Awards (winning two), Mitchum was widely lauded for a Best Actor award, but he wasn't nominated. George C. Scott was rewarded for his outstanding appearance in Patton, which Mitchum had opposed as glorifying war.

Mitchum appeared in a number of well-received crime dramas in the 1970s. Eddie Coyle (1973)'s Friends of Eddie Coyle found the actor in a dying Boston hoodlum trapped between the Feds and his criminal allies. The Yakuza (1974), by Sydney Pollack, transplanted the common film noir story arc to the Japanese underworld. He appeared in Midway, 1976, during a pivotal 1942 World War II battle. Mitchum's role in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1975) (a recreation of 1944's Murder My Sweet) was well-received by audiences and commentators for him to reprise his role in 1978's The Big Sleep, a remake of the 1946 film of the same name.

Mitchum appeared as Coach Delaney in the film version of playwright/actor Jason Miller's 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season.

Mitchum, inebriated, assaulted a female reporter and threw a basketball at a female photographer from Time magazine, injuring her neck and knocking out two of her teeth at the premiere of That Championship Season. She sued him for $30 million in fees. The suit ended up "costing him his salary from the film."

Mitchum's debacle may have attributed to another debacle a few months later. He made several racial, anti-Semitic, and sexist remarks in an Esquire interview in February 1983, including, "so the Jews say." Following widespread sarcastic feedback, he apologised a month later, saying that his remarks were "prankish" and "foreign to my principles." When he recited a racist monologue from his time in That Championship Season, he said the problem had arisen, according to the writer, who believed the words to be his own. Mitchum, who said he had only reluctantly agreed to the interview, later decided to "string... along" the writer with even more incendiary remarks.

Mitchum's 1983 miniseries The Winds of War brought him closer to television work. On ABC, Mitchum plays naval officer "Pug" Henry and Victoria Tennant as Pamela Tudsbury, as well as the events leading up to America's involvement in World War II. He played in 1988's War and Remembrance, which continued the story until the end of the war.

Mitchum began recovering from alcoholism treatment in Palm Springs, California, in 1984.

In the 1985 miniseries North and South, George Hazard's father-in-law appeared, and it also aired on ABC.

In the 1986 made-for-TV film In Thompson's Run, Mitchum appeared opposite Wilford Brimley. His niece releases a hardened con (Mitchum) who was transferred from a federal prison to a life term as a repeat criminal. The cop (Brimley) who was transferring him and has been the con's lifelong friend and foe for more than 30 years, has promised to capture the twosome.

Mitchum appeared as 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." Out of Gas, a mock sequel to Out of the Past that was written and directed by his daughter, Trina), was a short comedy film that ran on television. (Jane Greer reprised her role from the original film. He appeared in Bill Murray's 1988 comedy Scrooged.

Mitchum was given the National Board of Motion Pictures' lifetime award in 1991; the same year, he received the Telegatto award and the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Golden Globe Awards.

Mitchum continued to appear in films until the mid-1990s, such as Jim Jarmusch's Death Man, and narrated the Western Tombstone. In comparison to his role as the villain in the original, he played the protagonist police detective in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear, but the actor slowed his workload. His last film appearance in the television biographical film James Dean: Race with Destiny starred Giant director George Stevens. Mitchum's last acting role was in the 1995 Norwegian film Pakten.

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