Gagliasso, Dan (March 31, 2012). As Chris told interviewer John Nada, he had already obtained a degree in English Literature and was hoping to write and teach, but his plans changed when he married and fathered two children. Mini Bio (1) Christopher Mitchum is the second son of actor Robert Mitchum destined, like older brother James Mitchum, to follow in the footsteps of his famous dad. Biography - A Short Wiki According to Metro Pulse writer Jack Renfro, the incident occurred in 1952 and may have been witnessed by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum. 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DeMille Award Golden Globe winners, Military personnel from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Overturned convictions in the United States, United States Army personnel of World War II, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles to be expanded from October 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2022, TCMDb name template using numeric ID from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 13:26. Robert Mitchum's Death - Cause and Date Born (Birthday) Aug 6, 1917 Death Date July 1, 1997 Age of Death 79 years Cause of Death Lung Cancer Profession Movie Actor The movie actor Robert Mitchum died at the age of 79. Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. [6], As a child, Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief. Joe (1945). A hard-drinking, chain-smoking man who was a colorful raconteur, Mr. Mitchum fielded interviewers' questions with yarns, usually profane and often hilarious. His brother is actor Christopher Mitchum, and he is the uncle of actor Bentley Mitchum. Mitchum was born in Los Angeles, California, the elder son of actor Robert Mitchum (whom he closely resembles) and his wife, Dorothy Spence. At the time of filming, Mitchum's recent films had been critical and commercial flops, and he was going through a personal crisis that had him considering suicide. Robert left school at the age of 14 and made frequent freight-hopping trips around the country, working as a laborer, coal miner, boxer and aircraft assembler. Robert Mitchum, the insouciant actor whose heavy-lidded eyes gazed on the world with cynical amusement as he radiated rugged strength in more than 100 movies, died in his sleep yesterday at. He rose to prominence for starring roles. ", "ROBERT MITCHUM: AN IRREPRESSIBLE PATRIARCH OF ACTORS", "Robert Mitchum: That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings. THE LAST OF ROBERT MITCHUM. Mr. Mitchum helped to popularize film noir in the 1940's and was a major figure in the 1970's revival of the somber, cynical genre, with movies like ''The Friends of Eddie Coyle'' (1973) and remakes of ''Farewell, My Lovely'' (1975) and ''The Big Sleep'' (1978), in which he played Raymond Chandler's noble private eye Philip Marlowe. Click to reveal In the mid-1930s Julie Mitchum moved to the West Coast in the hope of acting in movies, and the rest of the Mitchum family soon followed her to Long Beach, California. #americanhunter #supergestitosuperclub #santanderrio #christophermitchum, A post shared by seter (@stefan.zetterberg) on Sep 10, 2018 at 5:35pm PDT. He died of complications from lung cancer and emphysema at the age of 79. Roger Ebert called him "the soul of film noir". In Where Danger Lives (1950), Mitchum played a doctor who comes between a mentally unbalanced Faith Domergue and cuckolded Claude Rains. By inheriting his dad's sexy, sleepy eyes and taciturn good looks, it was obvious from the start that Jim would lean towards an acting career with so much going for him. Robert Mitchum was never faithful to his wife and had numerous affairs throughout his marriage. The drug charge could have destroyed some careers, but at the time it enhanced his image as a rebel. Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 July 1, 1997) was an American actor. Mitchum was born in Los Angeles, California, the elder son of actor Robert Mitchum (whom he closely resembles) and his wife, Dorothy Spence. He died on July 1, 1997, in Santa Barbara, California, due to complications from the disease. His siblings Julie and John Mitchum were also actors. Wikimedia Commons / facebook.com/MitchumStarfish. I died before the opening credits, off screen! Robert Mitchum stars as a sleepy-eyed soldier of fortune who finds himself in the middle of the fracas. Dorothy Spence Mitchum, the wife of actor Robert Mitchum for 57 years, died Saturday at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara. Just like his younger brother James, Christopher pursued a career as a Hollywood actor, and he went on to appear in nearly 70 films, sharing the screen on three features with the legendary John Wayne. After that, he found other jobs in Hollywood as an errand boy and then as a production assistant, working his way to become Associate Producer. . Following a series of conventional Westerns and films noir, as well as the Marilyn Monroe adventure vehicle River of No Return (1954), Mitchum appeared in The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton's only film as director. At the time of his death, Robert Mitchum was 79 years old. (1949), which starred Leeds. Clint Eastwood: A Biography. Following a succession of average Westerns and the poorly received Foreign Intrigue (1956), Mitchum starred in the first of three films with Deborah Kerr. "[30][32] Following the widespread negative response, he apologized a month later, saying that his statements were "prankish" and "foreign to my principle". Robert Mitchum was born 6th August 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, into a Norwegian-Irish Methodist family. In her 1995 memoir, ''My Lucky Stars,'' Shirley MacLaine recalled her affair with Mr. Mitchum when they starred in 1962 in ''Two for the Seesaw.'' Two years later in 2014, he ran his candidacy once again for the same seat in the Congress, coming in second to Lois Capps. When reporters asked him what jail was like, he replied, ''It's just like Palm Springs without the riffraff. Throughout his long career, Mr. Mitchum pretended to regard his profession casually, repeatedly remarking in his droning baritone, ''It sure beats working.'' Mitchum's sons, James and Christopher, were actors, and his daughter, Petrine Day Mitchum, a writer. [8] Following the moderately successful Western Nevada, RKO lent Mitchum to United Artists for a prominent supporting actor role in The Story of G.I. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady. (Robert Mitchum), Copyright 2023 /The Celebrity Deaths.com/All Rights Reserved. 'Dad did campaign stuff for Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and H. W. Bush. he waited until 1967 to record his follow-up record album, "That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings," which charted at number 35 on the U.S. Country chart. In 1972 he was offered a role in the Spanish movie Summertime Killer, which became popular in various European countries as well in Asia. Since 1998, Chris has been trying to be elected into office as a Republican, although still to no avail. Her third child, John, was born in September of that year. In 1982, Mitchum played Coach Delaney in the film adaptation of playwright/actor Jason Miller's 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season. He matriculated from Webb School in California, then started studying in the University of Pennsylvania, transferring to Trinity College in Dublin for his second year abroad, and then graduated from the University of Arizona as a Bachelor in Literature in 1966. He is also the brother of actor Christopher Mitchum and the uncle of actor Bentley Mitchum. When asked about his childhood, he said it was his father who disciplined him: My father was the one who took care of that. By the end of his studies at University of Arizona, Christopher was already married and had two children. North'' (1988). His agent got him an interview with Harry Sherman, the producer of Paramount's Hopalong Cassidy western film series, which starred William Boyd; Mitchum was hired to play minor villainous roles in several films in the series during 1942 and 1943. At the time, Wayne was regarded as a supporter of the Vietnam War, and he along with people who worked with him, were the subjects of a backlash by various parts of Hollywood and anti-war groups. Moving with his family to New York at an early age, he was undisciplined and used to adventure alone, which resulted in him being charged for vagrancy at 14 years old. Robert Mitchum died of lung cancer on 1st July 1997. He once said, ''I agree with the producer who said I looked like a shark with a broken nose.''. Despite his fame in foreign film markets, Mitchum actually returned to America years later to appear in various movies such as Stingray of 1978, The One Man Jury and The Day Time Ended. He is the eldest son of actor Robert Mitchum. Ann married Lieutenant Hugh "The Major" Cunningham Morris, a former Royal Naval Reserve officer. Your IP: Advertisement He returned to the role in 1988's War and Remembrance,[8] which continued the story through the end of the war. Retrieved December 14, 2022. Not only was he famous for his acting skills and ability, his bad boy demeanor was one of his attractive traits as well. He continued appearing in dozens of movies such as Out of the Past, The Night of the Hunter, and Cape Fear. The big-budget Herman Wouk story aired on ABC, starring Mitchum as naval officer "Pug" Henry and Victoria Tennant as Pamela Tudsbury, and examined the events leading up to America's involvement in World War II. Shortly after filming, Mitchum was drafted into the United States Army, serving at Fort MacArthur, California, as a medic. Joe in 1945 and played a role in Undercurrent. He played George Hazard's father-in-law in the 1985 miniseries North and South, which also aired on ABC. 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