Robert Mitchum
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Mitchum in July 1949
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Robert Charles Durman Mitchum August 6, 1917 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | July 1, 1997 (aged 79) Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer and emphysema |
| Resting place | Cremains scattered into the Pacific Ocean |
| Occupation | Actor, author, composer, singer |
| Years active | 1942–1997 |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Spence (m. 1940–1997; his death) |
| Children | James Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum, and Petrine Day Mitchum |
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Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several classic films noir, and 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), and Cape Fear (1962).
Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male stars of Classic American Cinema.
Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut into a Methodist family. His mother, Ann Harriet Gunderson, was a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain's daughter; his father, James Thomas Mitchum, of Scottish-Ulster and Blackfoot Indian descent, was a shipyard and railroad worker. A sister, Annette (known as Julie Mitchum during her acting career), was born in 1914. James Mitchum was crushed to death in a railyard accident in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1919, when his son was less than two years old. After his father's death, his mother was awarded a government pension, and soon realized she was pregnant with her second son, John, who was born in September. She remarried to a former Royal Naval Reserve officer, Major Hugh Cunningham Morris, who helped her care for the children. Ann and the Major had a daughter, Carol Morris, who was born July 1927 on the family farm in Delaware. When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.
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