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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for starring roles in several classic films noirs, and his acting is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known films include Out of the Past (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Cape Fear (1962), and El Dorado (1966). Mitchum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Stor

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Filmography

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

2019

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

2017
as Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood

2017
as Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'

2002
as Robert Mitchum

Pulp Cinema

2001
as Robert Mitchum

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

2000
as Robert Mitchum

James Dean: Race with Destiny

1997
as George Stevens

Backfire!

1995
as Marshal Marc Marshall

Dead Man

1995
as John Dickinson

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

1995
as Robert Mitchum

Woman of Desire

1994
as Walter J. Hill

Tombstone

1993
as Narrator (voice)

La classe américaine

1993
as Yves

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991
as Robert Mitchum

Cape Fear

1991
as Lieutenant Elgart

A Family For Joe

1990
as Joe Whitaker

Présumé dangereux

1990

Midnight Ride

1990
as Dr. Hardy

The Eyes of War

1989
as Host & Narrator

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1989
as Himself

Hoodwinked

1989
as Jake Spanner

Mr. North

1988
as Mr. Bosworth

Scrooged

1988
as Grace Cooley

Thompson's Last Run

1986
as Johnny Thompson

Promises to Keep

1985
as Jack Palmer

The Hearst and Davies Affair

1985
as William Randolph Hearst

Reunion at Fairborough

1985
as Carl Hostrup

The Ambassador

1984
as Peter Hacker

Maria's Lovers

1984
as Ivan's Father

A Killer in the Family

1983
as Gary Tison

That Championship Season

1982
as Coach Delaney

One Shoe Makes it Murder

1982
as Harold Shillman

Nightkill

1980
as Donner/Rodriguez

Agency

1980
as Ted Quinn .

Breakthrough

1979
as Col. Rogers

Matilda

1978
as Duke Parkhurst

The Big Sleep

1978
as Philip Marlowe

The Amsterdam Kill

1977
as Quinlan

The Last Tycoon

1976
as Pat Brady

Midway

1976
as Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.

Farewell, My Lovely

1975
as Philip Marlowe

The Yakuza

1974
as Harry Kilmer

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

1973
as Eddie "Fingers" Coyle

The Wrath of God

1972
as Father Oliver Van Horne

Going Home

1971
as Harry K. Graham

Ryan's Daughter

1970
as Charles Shaughnessy

Young Billy Young

1969
as Deputy Ben Kane

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

1969
as Flagg

Villa Rides

1968
as Lee Arnold

Secret Ceremony

1968
as Albert

5 Card Stud

1968
as Reverend Jonathan Rudd

Anzio

1968
as Dick Ennis (war correspondent, International Press)

The Way West

1967
as Dick Summers

El Dorado

1966
as Sheriff J.P. Harrah

Mister Moses

1965
as Joe Moses

What a Way to Go!

1964
as Rod Anderson, Jr.

Man in the Middle

1963
as Lt. Col. Barney Adams

The List of Adrian Messenger

1963
as Slattery

Marilyn

1963

Rampage

1963
as Harry Stanton

The Longest Day

1962
as Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

Cape Fear

1962
as Max Cady

Two for the Seesaw

1962
as Jerry Ryan

The Last Time I Saw Archie

1961
as Archie Hall

Home from the Hill

1960
as Captain Wade Hunnicutt

The Sundowners

1960
as Paddy Carmody

The Grass Is Greener

1960
as Charles Delacro

A Terrible Beauty

1960
as Dermot O'Neill

The Angry Hills

1959
as Mike Morrison

The Wonderful Country

1959
as Martin Brady

The Hunters

1958
as Major Cleve Saville

Thunder Road

1958
as Lucas Doolin

Fire Down Below

1957
as Felix Bowers

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957
as Cpl. Allison, USMC

The Enemy Below

1957
as Capt. Murrell

Bandido!

1956
as Wilson

Foreign Intrigue

1956
as Dave Bishop

Not as a Stranger

1955
as Dr. Lucas Marsh

Man with the Gun

1955
as Clint Tollinger

The Night of the Hunter

1955
as Harry Powell

River of No Return

1954
as Matt Calder

Track of the Cat

1954
as Curt Bridges

White Witch Doctor

1953
as John 'Lonni' Douglas

Second Chance

1953
as Russ Lambert

She Couldn't Say No

1953
as Doctor Robert Sellers

Angel Face

1952
as Frank Jessup

The Lusty Men

1952
as Jeff McCloud

One Minute to Zero

1952
as Col. Steve Janowski

Macao

1952
as Nick Cochran

The Racket

1951
as Captain Thomas McQuigg

His Kind of Woman

1951
as Dan Milner

My Forbidden Past

1951
as Dr. Mark Lucas

Where Danger Lives

1950
as Dr. Jeff Cameron

The Big Steal

1949
as Lt. Duke Halliday

The Red Pony

1949
as Billy Buck

Holiday Affair

1949
as Steve Mason

Blood on the Moon

1948
as Jim Garry

Rachel and the Stranger

1948
as Jim Fairways

Desire Me

1947
as Paul Aubert

Pursued

1947
as Jeb

Out of the Past

1947
as Jeff Bailey

Crossfire

1947
as Keeley

Till the End of Time

1946
as William J. Tabeshaw

Undercurrent

1946
as Michael Garroway

The Locket

1946
as Norman Clyde

Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe

1945
as Bill Walker

West of the Pecos

1945
as Pecos Smith

Nevada

1944
as Jim Lacy aka Nevada

When Strangers Marry

1944
as Fred Graham

Girl Rush

1944
as Jimmy Smith

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1944
as Bob Gray

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1944
as CPO Jeff Daniels

Beyond the Last Frontier

1943
as Trigger Dolan (as Bob Mitchum)

We've Never Been Licked

1943
as Panhandle Mitchell

The Lone Star Trail

1943
as Ben Slocum

Doughboys in Ireland

1943
as Ernie Jones

Follow the Band

1943
as Tate Winters

Minesweeper

1943
as Seaman Chuck Ryan

Bar 20

1943
as Richard Adams (as Bob Mitchum)

Riders of the Deadline

1943
as Nick Drago (as Bob Mitchum)

Colt Comrades

1943
as Dirk Mason (as Bob Mitchum)

Gung Ho!

1943
as 'Pig iron' Matthews

Border Patrol

1943
as Quinn (as Bob Mitchum)

False Colors

1943
as Rip Austin (as Bob Mitchum)

Director

Movie The Funniest Way in Earth's Atmosphere 1993

Writer

Movie Thunder Road 1958

Producer

Movie Thunder Road 1958