Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1903-08-14
Day of Death
1953-10-13
Place of Birth
Havana, Cuba
Millard Mitchell
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.
Filmography (33)
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Here Come the Girls
1953
The Naked Spur
1953
Singin' in the Rain
1952
My Six Convicts
1952
Strictly Dishonorable
1951
You're in the Navy Now
1951
Mister 880
1950
Convicted
1950
Winchester '73
1950
The Gunfighter
1950
Twelve O'Clock High
1949
Everybody Does It
1949
