Robert Mitchum

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1917 age 0

   Born

2. 1942 age 25

   CreditSaboteur

3. 1947 age 30

   CreditCrossfire

   CreditOut of the Past

4. 1954 age 37

   CreditRiver of No Return

5. 1955 age 38

   CreditThe Night of the Hunter

6. 1962 age 45

   CreditCape Fear

   CreditThe Longest Day

7. 1966 age 49

   CreditEl Dorado

8. 1970 age 53

   CreditRyan's Daughter

9. 1991 age 74

   CreditCape Fear

10. 1993 age 76

    CreditTombstone

11. 1995 age 78

    CreditDead Man

12. 1997 age 79

    Died

• OBOliver Blake2 titles
• MJMaurice Jarre2 titles
• MBMartin Balsam2 titles
• GPGregory Peck2 titles
• FFFrank Fenton2 titles
• BTBilly Bob Thornton2 titles
• JWJames R. Webb2 titles
• DBDon Beddoe2 titles
• RRRobert Ryan2 titles
• JWJohn Wayne2 titles

• Children

  • CMChristopher Mitchum

• Siblings

  • JMJohn Mitchum

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• For a while it looked like I was going to be stuck in westerns. I figured out I could make 6 a year for 60 years and then retire. I decided I didn't want it. So I started blinking my eyes every time a gun went off in the scenes. That got me out of westerns.

  Robert Mitchum, CC BY-SA 4.0

• She may have been right. Looking back, I suppose I was expecting, as a young actor, to discuss Stanislavski or 'Acting as an art.' Instead, I palled around with the crew—the grips, the stagehands—and the conversation centered around the two B's—broads and booze.

  Robert Mitchum, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I usually take no notice of reviews unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.

  Robert Mitchum, CC BY-SA 4.0

• No. But it was indicated by other people that I should go there—like my wife, my friends, the woman from Alcoholics Anonymous who came around. My wife, Dottie, was the prime mover. It would have been a disappointment to her if I'd rejected her suggestion. I stayed until they were done with me. I don't know if it 'worked.' I don't understand that.

  Robert Mitchum, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Listen, when I arrived in Los Angeles in the early '40s, there were just 640,000 people. Every loser in the world headed there because there was no competition. The keynote was mediocrity because the film, radio and music businesses had defined that the average mental age of the audience was 12. They handed me the bloodstained hat of a guy who'd fallen off his horse and suddenly I was in the movies—in a Hopalong Cassidy picture. I give hope to the hopeless. People say, "If he can make it, I can be Queen of England.

  Robert Mitchum, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Yeah, I'm unique—like an actor who has only one eye in the middle of his forehead. Or the Elephant Man. I've got a patent on the type. To be an actor is to be a moveable freak. Once you have been up there on that giant screen, everybody knows you—and you know no one. It counts as a source of embarrassment.

  Robert Mitchum, CC BY-SA 4.0