Millard Mitchell

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Millard Mitchell

from the trailer for the film Singin' in the Rain (1952).

Born

August 14, 1903
Havana, Cuba

Died

October 13, 1953 (aged 50)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Years active

1931 - 1953

Awards won
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 1952 My Six Convicts

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.

[edit] Partial filmography

Grand Central Murder (1942)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Kiss of Death (1947)
A Double Life (1947)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
Everybody Does It (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Convicted (1950)
Mister 880 (1950)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
My Six Convicts (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Naked Spur (1953)

Awards
Preceded by Peter Ustinov for Quo Vadis	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 1953 for My Six Convicts	Succeeded by Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity