Millard Mitchell
Actor
Biography
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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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Filmography
Winchester '73
as High Spade 1950
The Naked Spur
as Jesse Tate 1953
The Gunfighter
as Marshal Mark Strett 1950
Kiss of Death
as Detective (uncredited) 1947
Twelve O'Clock High
as Major General Patrick Pritchard 1949
A Foreign Affair
as Col. Rufus J. Plummer 1948
Thieves' Highway
as Ed Kinney 1949
A Double Life
as Al Cooley 1947
Mister 880
as "Mac" McIntire 1950
Convicted
as Malloby 1950
Grand Central Murder
as Detective Arthur Doolin 1942
The Big Street
as Gentleman George (Uncredited) 1942
The Cheat
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) 1931
You're in the Navy Now
as George Larrabee 1951
My Six Convicts
as James T. Connie 1952
My Sin
as Trooper 1931