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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 ...
Thomas John Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American actor and writer. He played Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life, Pat Garrett in The Outlaw, and Mayor Jonas Henderson in High Noon. Mitchell was the first male actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting by ...
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.
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 ...
Actor, Writer. Born July 11, 1892 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. Thomas Mitchell was one of the great American character actors, whose credits read like a list of the greatest American films of the 20th century: Lost Horizon (1937); Stagecoach (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Gone with the Wind ...
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.
