Millard Mitchell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 14, 1903
- Died
- October 13, 1953 (aged 50)
- Birthplace
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Millard Mitchell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Naked Spur
Movie · as Jesse Tate
Here Come the Girls
Movie · as Albert Snodgrass
Singin' in the Rain
Movie · as R.F. Simpson
My Six Convicts
Movie · as James T. Connie
You're in the Navy Now
Movie · as George Larrabee
Strictly Dishonorable
Movie · as Bill Dempsey
Convicted
Movie · as Malloby
Winchester '73
Movie · as High Spade
The Gunfighter
Movie · as Marshal Mark Strett
Mister 880
Movie · as "Mac" McIntire
Thieves' Highway
Movie · as Ed Kinney
Twelve O'Clock High
Movie · as Major General Patrick Pritchard
Everybody Does It
Movie · as Mike Craig
A Foreign Affair
Movie · as Col. Rufus J. Plummer
Kiss of Death
Movie · as Detective (uncredited)
A Double Life
Movie · as Al Cooley
Swell Guy
Movie · as Steve
Slightly Dangerous
Movie · as Baldwin
Dixie Dugan
Movie · as Accident Victim (uncredited)
Grand Central Murder
Movie · as Detective Arthur Doolin
The Mayor of 44th Street
Movie · as Herman
Get Hep to Love
Movie · as McCarthy
Mr. and Mrs. North
Movie · as Mullins
The Big Street
Movie · as Gentleman George (uncredited)
The Girl on the Magazine Cover
Movie · as Photographer
Singapore Sue
Movie · as Second Sailor
The Cheat
Movie · as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A Lesson in Love
Movie · as Freshmen
My Sin
Movie · as Trooper
Secrets of a Secretary
Movie · as Policeman
What Price Pants
Movie · as Secretary (uncredited)