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9 unusual facts about Robert Mitchum


Barrie Chase

Other film and television roles included The George Raft Story; the beating victim of a sadistic Robert Mitchum in the thriller Cape Fear; and the dancing, bikini-clad girlfriend of Dick Shawn's maniacal character in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

Basdeo Panday

He was also an actor and played small parts in several films, most notably "Man in The Middle", with Robert Mitchum.

Eldorado, Texas

The movie El Dorado, starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, takes place in this city during the late 1800s.

Henry T. Waskow

The character of Captain Bill Walker (played by Robert Mitchum) in William Wellman's motion picture The Story of G.I. Joe is partly based on Pyle's column about Waskow's death.

Jan Wahl

In addition, he was an on-set script doctor (uncredited) for The Wrath of God (1972) starring Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth during its filming in Mexico; and was an early consultant on what became Fraggle Rock.

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More is a 1944 American comedy/romance film featuring Robert Mitchum, and was the final film directed by the German-American director Joe May.

La Guardia Committee

After high profile arrests of actors like Robert Mitchum, Hollywood gave Anslinger full control over the script of any film that mentioned marijuana.

Sonny Seiler

The firm's office, Armstrong House, as well as other locations in Savannah, were also featured in the original 1962 version of the film Cape Fear starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum.

Walter Schumann

By 1955, Schumann was busy composing and conducting the score to the classic Robert Mitchum film The Night of the Hunter and won an Emmy for his wildly popular "Dragnet" theme.


Bringing In the Sheaves

It was also sung briefly by Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter.

Carl Switzer

In 1953 and 1954, Switzer co-starred in three William A. Wellman-directed films: Island in the Sky and The High and the Mighty, both starring John Wayne, and Track of the Cat starring Robert Mitchum.

Dick Bentley

In 1960 he returned to Australia to play a sheep drover in The Sundowners, starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.

Espen Skjønberg

Throughout the years he has shared screen and television with names like Tom Courtenay, Nigel Hawthorne, Susannah York, Edward Woodward, Gérard Depardieu and even co-starring with Hollywood-veterans Cliff Robertson and Robert Mitchum in the 1995-movie Pakten.

Family Theater

In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Irene Dunne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Barbara Whiting Smith, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.

Films of the Golden Age

Among the many performers who have been covered by the magazine over the years were Tyrone Power, Butterfly McQueen, Olivia de Havilland, Betty Hutton, Robert Mitchum, Noël Coward, Anita Page, Conway Tearle, Edna May Oliver, James Dean, Dorothy Dandridge, Gene Kelly, Esther Williams, Una Merkel, and directors Michael Curtiz, and W. S. Van Dyke.

Jacqueline White

White appeared in The Narrow Margin, a film whose release was delayed for two years while Howard Hughes, the studio boss, considered whether to either extensively edit it or reshoot as an A-film with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.

Lori Martin

In 1962, Martin won the role of Nancy Bowden in the film Cape Fear which also starred Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, and Robert Mitchum.

Marvin J. Chomsky

In 1982 he directed Vanessa Redgrave in the TV movie, My Body, My Child and in 1989 the miniseries Brotherhood of the Rose with Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss and David Morse.

Out of the Past

Joe Stephanos (Paul Valentine) is a large man dressed in a dark suit who arrives at small, out-of-the-way Bridgeport, California in search of Jeff Bailey (Mitchum).

The Locket

The Locket is a 1946 suspense film directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Pictures.

The Wonderful Country

It became a 1959 film (with the same title) starring Robert Mitchum (also executive producer with his company, D.R.M. Productions, producing) and Julie London, directed by Robert Parrish, and Robert Ardrey adapted the book to the screenplay.

Virginia Huston

Her other films include Out of the Past (released in the UK as Build My Gallows High) (1947), in which she plays Robert Mitchum's girlfriend; The Racket (1951); and Sudden Fear (1952).


see also

The Ballad of Thunder Road

It tells the tale of "Lucas Doolin" (Robert Mitchum), a bootlegger during the 1950s who would deliver moonshine along local roads at excessive speeds to avoid "revenuers".

Wrath of God

The Wrath of God, a Western film starring Robert Mitchum and Frank Langella