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  1. Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

  2. Robert Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.he died of lung cancer at age 79 in California. He was born in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1917. Career. He began his career by participating in small roles in movies The Human Comedy (1943), Follow the Band (1943), Beyond the Last Frontier (1943).

    • He Was Born Into Tragedy
    • He Was Diabolical
    • He Was A One-Woman Man
    • His Proposal Took A Strange Turn
    • He Committed The Ultimate Betrayal
    • He Had A Creepy Romantic Past
    • He Was A "Problem Child"
    • He Punched His Boss
    • His Good Looks Had A Dark Side
    • He Performed A Disgusting Act

    Robert Mitchum got a hard start in life, and bad luck seemed to run in the family. Mitchum’s father was a railroad worker…until his horrific demise. The elder Mitchum passed in a freak accident when he was crushed while working. Mitchum was just two at the time, but it was a strange presage of things to come… Wikimedia Commons

    Today, Mitchum is most famous for his chilling role in the film noir classic The Night of the Hunter, where he plays an evil convict posing as a preacher. Mitchum was desperate for the part—and he nailed his audition in the best way. When director Charles Laughton met with the actor, he said he was looking for "a diabolical s----," to which Mitchum...

    For all that he was a handsome, winsome Hollywood star, Mitchum was a one-woman kind of guy…sort of. Mitchum met Dorothy Spence when they were just teenagers. The two got married in 1940, shortly before Mitchum’s acting career took off, and stayed married until Mitchum’s passing in 1997. That’s 57 years of marital bliss…or was it? Wikimedia Commons

    Mitchum was practically addicted to Dorothy, and proposed to her soon after they started going steady. His proposal was legendarily bad. According to the actor himself, the night he asked her to marry him, “I took one look at her and said, ‘This is it. I’ll be back for you. Stick with me, kid, and you’ll be farting through silk.’" Um, okay? Shutter...

    With his rugged good looks and patented demeanor of ennui, Mitchum was quite the hit with the ladies. He must have had a monk’s self-control, then, to remain faithful to his wife…right? Wrong and wrong. Mitchum carried on many affairs during his marriage to Dorothy Spence. But there was always one thing she could hold over his head… Getty Images

    Siblings share a lot. They share parents, they might share a room while they’re young, and they often share clothes as hand-me-downs. And while sharing is caring, there are some things that siblings really shouldn’t share…like girlfriends. Before marrying Mitchum, Dorothy Spence dated Mitchum’s brother John. There’s an “ick” factor here I just can’...

    Mitchum was causing trouble long before he made it big. So much trouble, in fact, that his mother and stepfather couldn't raise him themselves. They shipped the young Robert off to live with his grandparents to stop him from getting into fights. But not even grandma and grandpa could get Mitchum to walk the straight and narrow…. Pexels

    There’s always that one kid in school who refuses to behave. They never do their homework, they skip class, and they talk back to teachers. That was Robert Mitchum…exceptthe star took it to the next level.Believe it or not, Mitchum once even got into a fistfight with his school principal, finally earning himself an expulsion. Shutterstock

    Mitchum was famous for his bedroom eyes and chiseled cheekbones. But while some Old Hollywood stars would go under the knife for those features, Mitchum came by his gruff good looks honestly. Mitchum attributed his signature appearance to his past as a professional boxer and to his lifelong struggle with insomnia. Wikimedia Commons

    Mitchum did always love the bottle, but his party animal persona on the set of the The Big Sleepwent from disturbing to absolutely terrifying. While on the clock filming, Mitchum was trying to impress his fellow rebellious co-star Olivier Reed, and somehow managed to down an entire bottle of gin in a mere 55 minutes. Getty Images

  3. Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1992.

  4. Jul 1, 1997 · Biography. Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is ...

  5. Home from the Hill is a 1960 American melodrama film starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane and Luana Patten. Directed in CinemaScope by Vincente Minnelli and filmed in Metrocolor, it was produced by Edward Grainger, and distributed by MGM.

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