Name
Millard Mitchell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1903-08-14
Deathday
1953-10-13 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Havana, Cuba
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.
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Known For
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- 1952 Singin' in the Rain as R.F. Simpson
- 1949 Thieves' Highway as Ed Kinney
- 1953 The Naked Spur as Jesse Tate
- 1947 Kiss of Death as Detective (uncredited)
- 1947 A Double Life as Al Cooley
- 1950 Convicted as Malloby
- 1950 Winchester '73 as High Spade
- 1949 Twelve O'Clock High as Major General Patrick Pritchard
- 1948 A Foreign Affair as Col. Rufus J. Plummer
- 1952 My Six Convicts as James T. Connie
- 1950 The Gunfighter as Marshal Mark Strett
- 1942 Grand Central Murder as Detective Arthur Doolin
- 1951 You're in the Navy Now as George Larrabee
- 1932 Singapore Sue as Second Sailor
- 1931 The Cheat as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- 1931 A Lesson in Love as Freshmen
- 1931 My Sin as Trooper
- 1931 Secrets of a Secretary as Policeman
- 1950 Mister 880 as "Mac" McIntire
- 1953 Here Come the Girls as Albert Snodgrass
- 1931 What Price Pants as Secretary (uncredited)
- 1943 Slightly Dangerous as Baldwin
- 1951 Strictly Dishonorable as Bill Dempsey
- 1942 The Mayor of 44th Street as Herman
- 1949 Everybody Does It as Mike Craig
- 1943 Dixie Dugan as Accident Victim (uncredited)
- 1940 The Girl on the Magazine Cover as Photographer
- 1946 Swell Guy as Steve
- 2002 Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Self (archive footage)
- 1942 Get Hep to Love as McCarthy
- 1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1942 Mr. and Mrs. North as Mullins
- 1942 The Big Street as Gentleman George (uncredited)
