Robert Mitchum facts for kids

Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
Born	Robert Charles Durman Mitchum ; August 6, 1917; Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
Died	July 1, 1997 (aged 79); Santa Barbara, California, United States
Cause of death	Lung cancer
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1942-1997
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Spence (m. 1940–1997) (his death)

Robert Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

Career

He began his career by participating in small roles in movies The Human Comedy (1943), Follow the Band (1943), Beyond the Last Frontier (1943). Mitchum began to make known after playing the role of pilot Bob Gray, in war movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), from that film began to star in many war movies as Story of G.I. Joe (1945), is Capt. Bill Walker, fighting in North Africa during World War II. One Minute to Zero (1952), The Hunters (1958), The Enemy Below (1957), A Terrible Beauty (1960), The Longest Day (1962), Man in the Middle (1963), Anzio (1968), and Midway (1976).

Two of his best films are The Night of the Hunter (1955), by Charles Laughton, He plays a false Reverend Harry Powell, who marries a widow of Ben Harper, who before he died he hid the loot from a robbery at his home.

In the J. Lee Thompson thriller Cape Fear (1962), He embodies the role of a former inmate and dangerous psychopath Max Cady who pursues the lawyer who defended him at his trial. The lawyer's role was played by Gregory Peck.

Mitchum also starred in some Western movies Rachel and the Stranger (1948), Blood on the Moon (1948), The Lusty Men (1952), River of No Return (1954), with Marilyn Monroe, Bandido (1956), What a Way to Go! with Shirley MacLaine (1964), with El Dorado (1966) with John Wayne, The Way West (1967) with Kirk Douglas, Villa Rides (1968), 5 Card Stud (1968) with Dean Martin, Young Billy Young (1969).

With a tough-guy personality into his characters, he was able to work with the greatest directors of film as Robert Wise, John Farrow, Otto Preminger, Charles Laughton, Richard Fleischer, Jack Webb, Howard Hawks and Henry Hathaway.

Images for kids

Mitchum's famous role in Out of the Past (1947)
Mitchum with Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (1951)
Mitchum with Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Album cover of Mitchum's calypso record, Calypso — is like so ...
Mitchum in October 1976
Mitchum at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
Estoria Street Tunnel mural of Mitchum in Atlanta, Georgia
Mitchum as Max Cady in Cape Fear (1962)