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Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. 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 classic American cinema.[1]
Mitchum rose to prominence with an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor for The Story of G.I. Joe (1945). His best-known films include Out of the Past (1947), Angel Face (1953), River of No Return (1954), The Night of the Hunter (1955),Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Thunder Road (1958), The Sundowners (1960), Cape Fear (1962), El Dorado (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). He is also known for his television role as U.S. Navy Captain Victor "Pug" Henry in the epic miniseries The $25MM $853K $28MM $54MM $114K $2MM $7.5MM €300K $4K $150K $2.8MM €2K $7K $11K $25MM €6.6MM $1.1MM Evocator (2009) $19K $17MM €48K Breakfast with Hunter (2003) Hometown Legend (2002) $2MM $51K $112K $112K $25MM $5MM $9MM $105K $1MM $1.1MM $25MM $6.5MM $57MM $57MM $35MM $10MM $79MM $182MM $32MM $13MM $60MM On Aug. 6, 100 years ago, Robert Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Conn., though he once claimed he didn’t have a hometown. Humble beginnings led to several trips west, at least one in a boxcar, before he found stardom in Hollywood as one of its most iconic mid-century leading men. The actor, who died in 1997, was known as an avid reader and a bit of a renaissance man. He wrote poetry, songs, recorded two albums and once reportedly penned the libretto for an event Orson Welles directed at the Hollywood Bowl. An intimidating man of contradictions, he could be surly and charming, aloof and loquacious, humble and arrogant, pugnacious and gentle, testing the mettle of reporters from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper to the Los Angeles Times’ own Charles Champlin. Below are some choice Mitchum quotes from his conversations with The Times. “I like acting. But I don’t want to stick to it all my life. I’ve got just one hobby — thinking.” (1947) “[John] Huston and I became great pals while on location [
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Robert Mitchum (I) (1917–1997)
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On his 100th birthday, here’s to legendary Hollywood tough guy Robert Mitchum
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