Robert Mitchum filmography

Mitchum in July 1949

Robert Mitchum was an American actor who was in over 110 films and TV series over the course of his career. He is ranked as #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 greatest American screen legends of all time.^[1] His first credited named role was as Quinn in the 1943 film Border Patrol. That same year he appeared in the films Follow the Band, Beyond the Last Frontier, Cry 'Havoc' and Gung Ho! as well as several Hopalong Cassidy films including Colt Comrades, Bar 20, False Colors, and Riders of the Deadline. In 1944, he starred in the western film Nevada as Jim Lacy aka Nevada and a year later in the film West of the Pecos as Pecos Smith. During the 1940s, he also cast in the films Undercurrent (1946), Crossfire (1947), Out of the Past (1947) and The Big Steal (1949).

He co-starred in films with several Golden Age actresses such as Ava Gardner in My Forbidden Past (1951), Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (1951), Lizabeth Scott in The Racket (1951), again with Russell in Macao (1952), Susan Hayward in The Lusty Men (1952), Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return (1954), and Rita Hayworth in Fire Down Below (1957). He also played numerous military roles such as playing Colonel Steve Janowski in One Minute to Zero (1952), Corporal Allison, USMC in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Captain Murrell in The Enemy Below (1957), Lieutenant Elgart in Cape Fear (1962), Brigadier General Norman Cota in The Longest Day (1962), Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams in Man in the Middle (1963), Admiral William F. Halsey in Midway (1976) and Colonel Rogers in Breakthrough (1979).

Among his best-known films of the 1970s were the crime stories The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza and Farewell, My Lovely (in which he played Philip Marlowe), along with David Lean's epic drama, Ryan's Daughter. His later roles in the 1980s up until 1995 included Nightkill (1980), That Championship Season (1982), Mr. North (1988), Scrooged (1988), Cape Fear (1991), and Waiting for Sunset (1995). He was also the narrator for the 1993 western film Tombstone.

His television work included playing Capt. Victor "Pug" Henry in the mini-series The Winds of War (1983) and again in War and Remembrance (1988). He was also in the 1985 miniseries North and South with Patrick Swayze and the 1989 miniseries Brotherhood of the Rose with Connie Sellecca. He had a reoccurring role in the TV series A Family for Joe (1990) and African Skies (1992).

Filmography

1940s

With Jane Greer in Out of the Past (1947)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1943	Human Comedy, TheThe Human Comedy	Quentin 'Horse' Gilford	Uncredited	[2]
1943	Hoppy Serves a Writ	Henchman		[3]
1943	Aerial Gunner	Sgt. Benson	Uncredited	[4]
1943	Border Patrol	Quinn		[5]
1943	Follow the Band	Tate Winters		[6]
1943	Leather Burners	Henchman Randall	Uncredited	[7]
1943	Colt Comrades	Dirk Mason		[6]
1943	Lone Star Trail, TheThe Lone Star Trail	Ben Slocum		[8]
1943	Beyond the Last Frontier	Trigger Dolan		[8]
1943	Corvette K-225	Sheppard	Uncredited	[8]
1943	We've Never Been Licked	Panhandle Mitchell		[6]
1943	Bar 20	Richard Adams		[8]
1943	Doughboys in Ireland	Ernie Jones		[4]
1943	False Colors	Henchman Rip Austin		[8]
1943	Minesweeper	Seaman Chuck Ryan	Uncredited	[4]
1943	Dancing Masters, TheThe Dancing Masters	Mickey Halligan	Uncredited	[9]
1943	Cry 'Havoc'	Dying Soldier - 'I'm All Right'	Uncredited	[10]
1943	Riders of the Deadline	Nick Drago		[8]
1943	Gung Ho!	'Pig-Iron' Matthews		[10]
1943	Action in the North Atlantic		Uncredited
1944	Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More	CPO Jeff Daniels
1944	Mr. Winkle Goes to War	Corporal	Uncredited
1944	When Strangers Marry	Fred Graham		[10]
1944	Girl Rush	Jimmy Smith
1944	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Bob Gray
1944	Nevada	Jim Lacy aka Nevada
1945	Doll Face	Passenger	Uncredited
1945	Story of G.I. Joe, TheThe Story of G.I. Joe	Lt. Walker		[11]
1945	West of the Pecos	Pecos Smith
1946	Till the End of Time	William Tabeshaw
1946	Undercurrent	Michael Garroway		[10]
1946	Locket, TheThe Locket	Norman Clyde		[10]
1947	Pursued	Jeb		[12]
1947	Crossfire	Keeley		[12]
1947	Desire Me	Paul Aubert
1947	Out of the Past	Jeff Bailey	aka Build My Gallows High	[12]
1948	Rachel and the Stranger	Jim Fairways		[12]
1948	Blood on the Moon	Jim Garry		[12]
1949	Red Pony, TheThe Red Pony	Billy Buck
1949	Big Steal, TheThe Big Steal	Lt. Duke Halliday		[10]
1949	Holiday Affair	Steve

1950s

With Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (1951)

With Tommy Rettig in River of No Return (1954)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1950	Where Danger Lives	Jeff Cameron		[10]
1951	My Forbidden Past	Dr. Mark Lucas
1951	His Kind of Woman	Dan Milner		[10]
1951	Racket, TheThe Racket	Captain Thomas McQuigg		[10]
1952	Macao	Nick Cochran		[10]
1952	One Minute to Zero	Col. Steve Janowski
1952	Lusty Men, TheThe Lusty Men	Jeff McCloud		[12]
1952	Angel Face	Frank Jessup		[12]
1953	White Witch Doctor	John 'Lonni' Douglas
1953	Second Chance	Russ Lambert		[10]
1954	She Couldn't Say No	Doctor Robert Sellers
1954	River of No Return	Matt Calder		[12]
1954	Track of the Cat	Curt Bridges		[12]
1955	Not as a Stranger	Lucas Marsh
1955	Night of the Hunter, TheThe Night of the Hunter	Harry Powell		[11]
1955	Man with the Gun	Clint Tollinger
1956	Foreign Intrigue	Dave Bishop
1956	Bandido	Wilson
1957	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Cpl. Allison, USMC		[11]
1957	Fire Down Below	Felix		[11]
1957	Enemy Below, TheThe Enemy Below	Capt. Murrell
1958	Thunder Road	Lucas Doolin
1958	Hunters, TheThe Hunters	Major Cleve Saville
1959	Angry Hills, TheThe Angry Hills	Mike Morrison
1959	Wonderful Country, TheThe Wonderful Country	Martin Brady

1960-70s

In The Sundowners (1960)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1960	Home from the Hill	Captain Wade Hunnicutt		[12]
1960	Terrible Beauty, AA Terrible Beauty	Dermot O'Neill	aka The Night Fighters
1960	Sundowners, TheThe Sundowners	Paddy Carmody		[11]
1960	Grass Is Greener, TheThe Grass Is Greener	Charles Delacro
1961	Last Time I Saw Archie, TheThe Last Time I Saw Archie	Archie Hall
1962	Cape Fear	Max Cady
1962	Longest Day, TheThe Longest Day	Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
1962	Two for the Seesaw	Jerry Ryan		[12]
1963	List of Adrian Messenger, TheThe List of Adrian Messenger	The final victim	Cameo
1963	Rampage	Harry Stanton
1963	Man in the Middle	Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams	aka The Winston Affair
1964	What a Way to Go!	Rod Anderson, Jr.
1965	Mister Moses	Joe Moses
1967	El Dorado	Sheriff J.P. Harrah		[12]
1967	Way West, TheThe Way West	Dick Summers
1968	Villa Rides	Lee Arnold
1968	Anzio	Dick Ennis
1968	5 Card Stud	The Rev. Jonathan Rudd
1968	Secret Ceremony	Albert		[12]
1969	Young Billy Young	Deputy Ben Kane
1969	Good Guys and the Bad Guys, TheThe Good Guys and the Bad Guys	Flagg
1970	Ryan's Daughter	Charles Shaughnessy		[12]
1971	Going Home	Harry K. Graham		[12]
1972	Wrath of God, TheThe Wrath of God	Father Oliver Van Horne
1973	Friends of Eddie Coyle, TheThe Friends of Eddie Coyle	Eddie 'Fingers' Coyle		[12]
1974	Yakuza, TheThe Yakuza	Harry Kilmer		[10]
1975	Farewell, My Lovely	Philip Marlowe		[11]
1976	Midway	Admiral William F. Halsey
1976	Last Tycoon, TheThe Last Tycoon	Pat Brady
1977	Amsterdam Kill, TheThe Amsterdam Kill	Quinlan
1978	Big Sleep, TheThe Big Sleep	Philip Marlowe		[12]
1978	Matilda	Duke Parkhurst
1979	Breakthrough	Col. Rogers

1980s–last years

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1980	Agency, TheThe Agency	Ted Quinn	aka Mind Games	[13]
1980	Nightkill	Donner / Rodriguez		[14]
1982	That Championship Season	Coach Delaney		[11]
1984	Ambassador, TheThe Ambassador	Peter Hacker		[15]
1984	Maria's Lovers	Ivan's Father		[16]
1988	Mr. North	Mr. Bosworth		[12]
1988	Scrooged	Preston Rhinelander		[17]
1990	Présumé dangereux	Prof. Forrester
1990	Midnight Ride	Dr. Hardy
1991	Cape Fear	Lieutenant Elgart
1993	Woman of Desire	Walter J. Hill
1993	Tombstone	Narrator
1995	Backfire!	Marshal Marc Marshall
1995	Dead Man	John Dickinson
1995	Waiting for Sunset	Ernest Bogan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1982	One Shoe Makes It Murder	Harold Shillman	TV film	[11]
1983	Killer in the Family, AA Killer in the Family	Gary Tison	TV film	[18]
1983	Winds of War, TheThe Winds of War	Victor 'Pug' Henry	Mini-series (7 episodes)	[11]
1985	North and South	Patrick Flynn	Mini-series (6 episodes)	[19]
1985	Promises to Keep	Jack Palmer	TV film	[20]
1985	Reunion at Fairborough	Carl Hostrup	TV film	[21]
1986	Thompson's Last Run	Johnny Thompson	TV film	[22]
1987	Equalizer, TheThe Equalizer	Richard Dyson	Episode: "Mission: McCall: Part 1 & 2"	[23]
1988	War and Remembrance	Capt. Victor 'Pug' Henry	Mini-series (12 episodes)	[12]
1989	Brotherhood of the Rose	John Eliot	Mini-series	[24]
1989	Jake Spanner, Private Eye	Jake Spanner	TV film	[25]
1992	African Skies	Sam Dutton	17 episodes	[26]
1990	Family for Joe, AA Family for Joe	Joe Whitaker	9 episodes	[27]
1995	Marshal, TheThe Marshal	Frank MacBride	Episode: "The New Marshal"	[28]
1997	James Dean: Race with Destiny	George Stevens	TV film	[29]

Short films

• The Magic of Make-up (1942)^[10]
• Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950)
• Waiting for the Wind (1990)

References

1. "Greatest Film Star Legends". Film Site. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
2. Server (2001), p. 67.
3. Reid, John Howard (2011). Westerns: A Guide to the Best (and Worst) Western Movies on DVD. Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu]. p. 185. ISBN 9780557203345. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
4. Server (2001), p. 69.
5. Server (2001), p. 63.
6. Server (2001), p. 563.
7. Server (2001), p. 65.
8. Server (2001), p. 564.
9. Server (2001), p. 68.
10. Mayer, McDonnell (2007). p. 287.
11. James W. Seymore Jr. (14 February 1983). "Rough, Tough and Rowdy Robert Mitchum". People. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
12. "Robert Mitchum, 79, Dies; Actor With Rugged Dignity". The New York Times. 2 July 1997. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
13. Weldon, Michael J. (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 8. ISBN 0312131496. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
14. Server (2001). p. 572
15. Server (2001). p. 573
16. Janet Maslin (18 January 1985). "Maria s Lovers (1984) SCREEN: 'MARIA'S LOVERS'". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
17. Roger Ebert (23 November 1988). "Scrooged Movie Review & Film Review (1988)". Roger Ebert Online. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
18. John J O'Connor (28 October 1983). "MITCHUM AS KILLER". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
19. John Leonard (4 November 1985). "Slavs, Slaves and Shoulders". New York Magazine 18: 58. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
20. John O'Connor (15 October 1985). "MITCHUMS IN 'PROMISES'". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
21. David Parkinson. "Reunion at Fairborough". Radio Times. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
22. Marill, Alvin H. (2011). Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780810881327. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
23. "Mitchum Fills In For Equalizer". Chicago Tribune. 11 October 1987. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
24. Dave McNary (25 March 2014). "‘Brotherhood of the Rose’ Plucked by ‘Mummy’ Producer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
25. Daniel Ruth (November 15, 1989). "Robert Mitchum ends slump as a retired private detective". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2 October 2015 – via HighBeam. (subscription required (help)).
26. N. F. Mendoza (4 July 1993). "WITH AN EYE ON . . . : Life under Simon James' 'African Skies' is fair--save for a lion or two". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
27. Kay Gardella (24 February 1990). "'A Family For Joe', Mitchum`s First Series, To Premiere Sunday". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
28. Ellen Gray (25 September 1995). "Getting Mitchum Out Of His Shell Veteran Actor Can Be A Tough Interview". Philly.com. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
29. Server (2001), p. 575.

Sources

• Server, Lee (2001). Robert Mitchum: Baby I Don't Cry (1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.). New York: St. Martins Griffin. ISBN 0312285434.
• Mayer, Geoff; McDonnell, Brian (2007). Encyclopedia of Film Noir (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313333068.

External links

• Robert Mitchum filmography at the Internet Movie Database
• Robert Mitchum filmography at the TCM Movie Database