Robert Mitchum filmography

Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) was an American actor who appeared in over 110 films and television series over the course of his career. He is ranked 23rd 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 western 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 Nevada as Jim "Nevada" Lacy, and a year later in the film West of the Pecos as Pecos Smith. During the 1940s, he was also cast in the film noirs Undercurrent (1946), Crossfire (1947), Out of the Past (1947) and The Big Steal (1949). Mitchum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a world-weary soldier in the 1945 film The Story of G.I. Joe, which received critical acclaim and was a commercial success.^[2][3]

In July 1949

He co-starred in films with several Golden Age actresses such as Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (1951), 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 Corporal Allison, USMC in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Brigadier General Norman Cota in The Longest Day (1962), Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams in Man in the Middle (1963), and Admiral William F. Halsey in Midway (1976). Mitchum portrayed serial killer Reverend Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955), and convicted rapist Max Cady in the neo-noir psychological thriller Cape Fear (1962). Both roles are listed in the AFI's 50 Greatest Screen Villains.^[4]

Mitchum departed from his typical screen persona with his critically acclaimed performance as a mild-mannered schoolmaster in David Lean's epic drama, Ryan's Daughter (1970).^[5][6] While the film won two Academy Awards, Mitchum, who was thought to be a contender for a Best Actor nomination, was not nominated.^[7] After the success of Ryan's Daughter, Mitchum appeared in crime dramas including The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).^[8] His later film roles between 1980 and 1997 included Nightkill (1980), That Championship Season (1982), Mr. North (1988), Scrooged (1988), and Waiting for Sunset (1995). He was also the narrator for the 1993 western Tombstone.

His television work included playing Victor "Pug" Henry in the mini-series The Winds of War (1983) and again in War and Remembrance (1988). When The Winds of War aired, it was the most watched miniseries at its time.^[9] 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 recurring role in the TV series A Family for Joe (1990) and African Skies (1992).

Film

1940s

With Jane Greer in Out of the Past (1947)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1942	The Magic of Make-up	Model	Short film	[10]
1943	The Human Comedy	Quentin "Horse" Gilford	Uncredited	[11]
1943	Hoppy Serves a Writ	Rigney	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[12]
1943	Aerial Gunner	Sgt. Benson	Uncredited	[13]
1943	Border Patrol	Quinn	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[14]
1943	Follow the Band	Tate Winters	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[15]
1943	The Leather Burners	Henchman Randall	Uncredited	[16]
1943	Colt Comrades	Dirk Mason	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[15]
1943	We've Never Been Licked	Panhandle Mitchell	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[15]
1943	The Lone Star Trail	Ben Slocum	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[17]
1943	Beyond the Last Frontier	Trigger Dolan	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[17]
1943	Corvette K-225	Sheppard	Uncredited	[17]
1943	Bar 20	Richard Adams	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[17]
1943	Doughboys in Ireland	Ernie Jones	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[13]
1943	False Colors	Rip Austin	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[17]
1943	Minesweeper	Seaman Chuck Ryan	Uncredited	[13]
1943	The Dancing Masters	Mickey Halligan	Uncredited	[18]
1943	Cry 'Havoc'	Dying Soldier – 'I'm All Right'	Uncredited	[10]
1943	Riders of the Deadline	Nick Drago		[17]
1943	Gung Ho!	"Pig-Iron" Matthews		[10]
1944	Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore	CPO Jeff Daniels		[19]
1944	Mr. Winkle Goes to War	Corporal	Uncredited	[20]
1944	When Strangers Marry	Fred Graham	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[10]
1944	Girl Rush	Jimmy Smith	Credited as Bob Mitchum	[20]
1944	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Bob Gray		[20]
1944	Nevada	Jim "Nevada" Lacy	Credited as Bob Mitchum First leading role	[21]
1945	The Story of G.I. Joe	Lt. Walker		[22]
1945	West of the Pecos	Pecos Smith		[23]
1946	Till the End of Time	William Tabeshaw		[24]
1946	Undercurrent	Michael Garroway		[10]
1946	The Locket	Norman Clyde		[10]
1947	Pursued	Jeb Rand		[25]
1947	Crossfire	Keeley		[26]
1947	Desire Me	Paul Aubert		[27]
1947	Out of the Past	Jeff	aka Build My Gallows High	[28]
1948	Rachel and the Stranger	Jim Fairways		[29]
1948	Blood on the Moon	Jim Garry		[30]
1949	The Red Pony	Billy Buck		[31]
1949	The Big Steal	Lt. Duke Halliday		[10]
1949	Holiday Affair	Steve		[32]

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	Dr. Jeff Cameron		[10]
1951	My Forbidden Past	Dr. Mark Lucas		[32]
1951	His Kind of Woman	Dan Milner		[10]
1951	The Racket	Captain Thomas McQuigg		[10]
1952	Macao	Nick Cochran		[10]
1952	One Minute to Zero	Col. Steve Janowski		[33]
1952	The Lusty Men	Jeff McCloud		[34]
1952	Angel Face	Frank Jessup		[35]
1953	White Witch Doctor	John 'Lonni' Douglas		[36]
1953	Second Chance	Russ Lambert		[10]
1954	She Couldn't Say No	Dr. Robert Sellers		[37]
1954	River of No Return	Matt Calder		[38]
1954	Track of the Cat	Curt Bridges		[39]
1955	Not as a Stranger	Lucas Marsh		[40]
1955	The Night of the Hunter	Harry Powell		[41]
1955	Man with the Gun	Clint Tollinger		[42]
1956	Foreign Intrigue	Dave Bishop		[43]
1956	Bandido	Wilson		[44]
1957	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Cpl. Allison, USMC		[45]
1957	Fire Down Below	Felix Bowers		[46]
1957	The Enemy Below	Capt. Murrell		[47]
1958	Thunder Road	Lucas Doolin		[48]
1958	The Hunters	Major Cleve Saville		[49]
1959	The Angry Hills	Mike Morrison		[50]
1959	The Wonderful Country	Martin Brady		[51]

1960–1970s

In The Sundowners (1960)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1960	Home from the Hill	Captain Wade Hunnicutt		[52]
1960	A Terrible Beauty	Dermot O'Neill	aka The Night Fighters	[53]
1960	The Sundowners	Paddy Carmody		[54]
1960	The Grass Is Greener	Charles Delacro		[55]
1961	The Last Time I Saw Archie	Archie Hall		[56]
1962	Cape Fear	Max Cady		[57]
1962	The Longest Day	Brig. Gen. Norman Cota		[58]
1962	Two for the Seesaw	Jerry Ryan		[59]
1963	The List of Adrian Messenger	Slattery	Cameo	[60]
1963	Rampage	Harry Stanton		[61]
1963	Man in the Middle	Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams	aka The Winston Affair	[62]
1964	What a Way to Go!	Rod Anderson, Jr.		[63]
1965	Mister Moses	Joe Moses		[64]
1967	The Way West	Dick Summers		[65]
1967	El Dorado	El Dorado Sheriff J.P. Harrah		[66]
1968	Villa Rides	Lee Arnold		[67]
1968	5 Card Stud	The Rev. Jonathan Rudd		[68]
1968	Anzio	Dick Ennis	aka The Battle for Anzio	[69]
1968	Secret Ceremony	Albert		[70]
1969	Young Billy Young	Deputy Ben Kane		[71]
1969	The Good Guys and the Bad Guys	Jim Flagg		[72]
1970	Ryan's Daughter	Charles		[73]
1970	A Movable Scene	Narrator	Short film, first in The Distant Drummer documentary series	[74]
1970	A Movable Feast	Narrator	Short film; second in The Distant Drummer documentary series	[75]
1971	Going Home	Harry K. Graham		[76]
1972	The Wrath of God	Father Oliver Van Horne		[77]
1973	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	Eddie "Fingers" Coyle		[78]
1974	The Yakuza	Harry Kilmer		[10]
1975	Farewell, My Lovely	Marlowe		[79]
1976	Midway	Admiral William F. Halsey		[80]
1976	The Last Tycoon	Pat Brady		[81]
1977	The Amsterdam Kill	Larry Quinlan		[82]
1978	The Big Sleep	Philip Marlowe		[83]
1978	Matilda	Duke Parkhurst		[84]
1979	Breakthrough	Col. Rogers		[85]

1980s–1990s

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref.
1980	Agency	Ted Quinn	aka Mind Games	[86]
1980	Nightkill	Donner / Rodriguez		[87]
1982	That Championship Season	Coach Delaney		[88]
1984	The Ambassador	Peter Hacker		[89]
1984	Maria's Lovers	Mr. Bibic		[90]
1988	Mr. North	Mr. Bosworth		[91]
1988	Scrooged	Preston Rhinelander		[92]
1990	Présumé dangereux	Prof. Forrester	aka Believed Violent	[93]
1990	Midnight Ride	Dr. Hardy		[94]
1991	Cape Fear	Lieutenant Elgart		[95]
1992	Les sept péchés capitaux	Dieu		[96]
1993	Tombstone	Narrator	Voice	[97]
1994	Woman of Desire	Walter J. Hill		[98]
1995	Backfire!	Marshal Marc Marshall		[99]
1995	Dead Man	John Dickinson		[100]
1995	Pakten	Ernest Bogan	aka Waiting for Sunset	[101]
1997	James Dean: Live Fast, Die Young	George Stevens		[102]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1982	One Shoe Makes It Murder	Harold Shillman	TV film	[103]
1983	A Killer in the Family	Gary Tison	TV film	[104]
1983	The Winds of War	Victor "Pug" Henry	Mini-series (7 episodes)	[105]
1985	North and South	Patrick Flynn	Mini-series (6 episodes)	[106]
1985	Promises to Keep	Jack Palmer	TV film	[107]
1985	Reunion at Fairborough	Carl Hostrup	TV film	[108]
1986	Thompson's Last Run	–	TV film; aka The Last Run	[109]
1987	The Equalizer	Richard Dyson	Episode: "Mission: McCall: Part 1 & 2"	[10]
1988	War and Remembrance	Victor 'Pug' Henry	Mini-series (12 episodes)	[105]
1989	Brotherhood of the Rose	John Eliot	Mini-series	[110]
1989	Jake Spanner, Private Eye	Jake Spanner	TV film	[111]
1990	A Family for Joe	Joe Whitaker	9 episodes	[112]
1990	Waiting for the Wind	–	Short film	[113]
1992	African Skies	Sam Dutton	17 episodes	[114]
1995	The Marshal	Frank MacBride	Episode: "The New Marshal"	[115]

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