Millard Mitchell
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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.
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Acting
Movie
Singin' in the Rain
as R.F. Simpson
1952
Movie
Winchester '73
as High Spade
1950
Movie
The Naked Spur
as Jesse Tate
1953
Movie
The Gunfighter
as Marshal Mark Strett
1950
Movie
Kiss of Death
as Detective (uncredited)
1947
Movie
Twelve O'Clock High
as Major General Patrick Pritchard
1949
Movie
A Foreign Affair
as Col. Rufus J. Plummer
1948
Movie
Thieves' Highway
as Ed Kinney
1949
Movie
A Double Life
as Al Cooley
1947
Movie
Mister 880
as "Mac" McIntire
1950
Movie
Convicted
as Malloby
1950
Movie
Grand Central Murder
as Detective Arthur Doolin
1942
Movie
The Big Street
as Gentleman George (uncredited)
1942
Movie
The Cheat
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1931
Movie
You're in the Navy Now
as George Larrabee
1951
Movie
My Six Convicts
as James T. Connie
1952
Movie
My Sin
as Trooper
1931
Movie
Here Come the Girls
as Albert Snodgrass
1953
Movie
Slightly Dangerous
as Baldwin
1943
Movie
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Movie
Mr. and Mrs. North
as Mullins
1942
Movie
Singapore Sue
as Second Sailor
1932
Movie
Strictly Dishonorable
as Bill Dempsey
1951
Movie
The Mayor of 44th Street
as Herman
1942