Robert Mitchum's biography

Robert Mitchum is 80 years old actor born at Bridgeport. He was born on Monday 6th of August 1917. He is often nicknamed as MitchOld Rumple EyesBob. According to year of birth 1917 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 6th of August means he is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as singer, screenwriter, film actor, songwriter. He is recently known as television actor.

Robert Mitchum's family

He has 1 son.

Robert Mitchum's son: Christopher Mitchum

Robert Mitchum's son's name is Christopher Mitchum. He is known as screenwriter. His son was born on Saturday 16th of October 1943 in Los Angeles.

Robert Mitchum's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: Haaren High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

In 1975 he was offered his high school diploma if he attended a ceremony at his old school. Mitchum did not attend the ceremony, but the diploma was still posted to him.

Robert Mitchum's career

His main focus is to be actor.

How did Robert Mitchum die

He died on on Tuesday 1st of July 1997 when he was 80 years old at Santa Barbara. Robert Mitchums death was caused by lung cancer and emphysema. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Robert Mitchum's Awards

Presented with a People's Choice Award backstage by Charlton Heston for War and Remembrance (1988) during the 1989 ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 25, 1984.

Robert Mitchum's Rankings

His performance as Reverend Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955) is ranked #71 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Robert Mitchum's Nominations

Appeared in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Human Comedy (1943) (in an uncredited role), Crossfire (1947), The Sundowners (1960) and The Longest Day (1962).

What Robert Mitchum has done for a first time

His arrest for marijuana possession in the late 1940s was one of the first times a major actor had been jailed for this crime. According to Lee Server's 2001 biography, "Robert Mitchum: Baby I Don't Care", he was still smoking pot into his old age.
While at RKO Radio Pictures, Mitchum became the first male movie star to refuse to shave his chest for shirtless roles. In order to avoid that, he allowed himself to develop a pot belly to avoid having to take his shirt off at all.

Robert Mitchum's quotes

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
I gave up being serious about making pictures around the time I made a film with Greer Garson and she took a hundred and twenty-five takes to say no.
I started out to be a sex fiend but couldn't pass the physical.
Movies bore me; especially my own.
I've still got the same attitude I had when I started. I haven't changed anything but my underwear.
[on his acting talents] Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.
People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.
[on press stories] They're all true - booze, brawls, broads, all true. Make up some more if you want to.
When I drop dead and they rush to the drawer, there's going to be nothing in it but a note saying 'later'.
I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.
I have two acting styles: with and without a horse.
Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way I'm always the new girl in the whorehouse.
I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it.
[asked what jail was like, after being released on a marijuana possession charge] It's like Palm Springs without the riff-raff.
You've got to realize that a Steve McQueen performance lends itself to monotony.
John Wayne had four-inch lifts in his shoes. He had the overheads on his boat accommodated to fit him. He had a special roof put in his station wagon. The son-of-a-bitch, they probably buried him in his goddamn lifts.
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
[his opinion about the Vietnam war, in 1968] If they won't listen to reason over there, just kill 'em. Nuke 'em all.
Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar. I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on television, too.
I've survived because I work cheap and don't take up too much time.
You know what the average Robert Mitchum fan is? He's full of warts and dandruff and he's probably got a hernia too, but he sees me up there on the screen and he thinks if that bum can make it, I can be president.
I kept the same suit for six years - and the same dialog. We just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
I came back from the war and ugly heroes were in.
Young actors love me. They think if that big slob can make it, there's a chance for us.
[asked why, in his mid-60s, he took on the arduous task of an 18-hour mini-series, The Winds of War (1983)] It promised a year of free lunches.
How do I keep fit? I lay down a lot.
[on four-time co-star Deborah Kerr] The best, my favorite... Life would be kind if I could live it with Deborah around.
[his opinion of Method actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson] They are all small.
[1983] Stars today are just masturbation images.
Just after we shot Secret Ceremony (1968), lesbianism came in... I'm no damned good as a lesbian.
People make too much of acting. You are not helping anyone like being a doctor or even a musician. In the final analysis, you have exalted no one but yourself.
These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation; in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.
I know production values are better, but are the scripts, are the pictures? The thing is, it's a hell of a lot more work, and I don't see overall where the films are any better, really?
I often regret my good reviews, because there is no point in doing something I know to be inferior and then I find I have come off the best in the film. Wouldn't you find that worrying?
[1948] I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.
I got a great life out of the movies. I've been all over the world and met the most fantastic people. I don't really deserve all I've gotten. It's a privileged life, and I know it.
Up there on the screen you're thirty feet wide, your eyeball is six feet high, but it doesn't mean that you really amount to anything or have anything important to say.
[1967] Where are the real artists? Today it's four-barreled carburetors and that's it.
[1968] The Rin Tin Tin method is good enough for me. That dog never worried about motivation or concepts and all that junk.
I only read the reviews of my films if they're amusing. Six books have been written about me but I've only met two of the authors. They get my name and birthplace wrong in the first paragraph. From there it's all downhill.
[on Sarah Miles] She's a monster. If you think she's not strong, you'd better pay attention.
[asked what he looks for in a script before accepting a job] Days off.
[on Steve McQueen] He sure don't bring much brains to the party, that kid.
[on Jane Russell] Miss Russell was a very strong character. Very good-humored when she wasn't being cranky.
They think I don't know my lines. That's not true. I'm just too drunk to say 'em.
I had to go over and light the sabbath candles. I was the only goddamned gentile ... I'd go to Mel Blumberg's house. He had a rabbi uncle who'd read from the Old Testament about Angeles pissing on sinners who were climbing Jacob's ladder.
We had a bunch of us that were going to go to Israel and wear big buttons saying I Like Eich, see how that got across.
How do you say trust me in Jewish? '**** you'.
[on casting his 16-year-old son, James Mitchum, in his first credited acting role in 1958's Thunder Road] I don't intend to support Jim forever, so I put him to work. Now he can pay his own income tax.

Robert Mitchum's body shape

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Robert Mitchum