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Actor Born July 11, 1892 in Elizabeth, N.J. Died Dec. 17, 1962 of cancer in Beverly Hills, Calif. I n a 50-year show business career, Thomas Mitchell picked up top acting awards in movies, television, radio and stage. Mitchell, a red-faced heavy-set son of Irish parents, appeared in scores of motion pictures, television programs and Broadway ...
Biography. Read More. One of Hollywood's most versatile character actors from the early 1920s through the 50s. Mitchell's range easily accommodated both comedy and melodrama, and his memorable gallery of characters included the tippling doctor in "Stagecoach" (1939) and the proud Irish patriarch in "Gone With the Wind" (1939)....
Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind ...
Dec 7, 2016 · Consider this: in 1939, widely considered the pinnacle year of the studio system, Thomas Mitchell appeared in three of the ten movies nominated for Best Picture (“Gone with the Wind,” “Stagecoach,” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”), as well as two more Oscar-nominated favorites, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Only Angels ...
In Stagecoach. …officer; and Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell), a charismatic drunkard. The nervous passengers are reassured that they will have a U.S. cavalry escort through Apache territory, where the tribe has been waging war on white settlers. Along the way they encounter the Ringo Kid (Wayne), an outlaw who is stranded…. Read More.
Actor Born July 11, 1892 in Elizabeth, N.J. Died Dec. 17, 1962 of cancer in Beverly Hills, Calif. I n a 50-year show business career, Thomas Mitchell picked up top acting awards in movies, television, radio and stage. Mitchell, a red-faced heavy-set son of Irish parents, appeared in scores of motion pictures, television programs and Broadway ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 17 (UPI)--Thomas Mitchell, Academy Award-winning character actor, died of cancer today at the age of 70--the second star to die in two days.
