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Thomas Mitchell
11 July 1892
Thomas Mitchell played in 20 movies in the Drama, Music, Romance, War, Adventure, Action, Western, Family, History, Biography, Film-Noir, Thriller, Fantasy, Comedy genres.
Thomas Mitchell got succeed with average imdb rating 7.4.
The son of Irish immigrants, Thomas Mitchell came from a family of journalists and civic leaders; his nephew, James Mitchell, later became the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
Following the place of his found and brother, Mitchell became a newspaper columnist after turbulent primary, but derived more pleasure into public notice of critique amusing showy skits than pursuing late-breaking scoops. He became an actor in 1913, at one point touring with Charles Coburn's Shakespeare Company. E
... ven when playing leads on Broadway in the 1920s, Mitchell not ever stock gave up document; his play Microscopic Accident, co-written with Floyd Dell, would be filmed by Hollywood three times. Entering films in 1934, Mitchell's first role of note was as the regenerate embezzler in Frank Capra's Down the drain Horizon (1937). Various film fans presume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Hot air; in fact, he won the winnings against his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach -- one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Deceive Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Those who watch TV only during the Christmas season are in with Mitchell's portrayal of the plaintive Uncle Billy in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In the 1950s, Mitchell won an Emmy in 1952, a Tony award (for Wonderful Town) in 1954, and starred in the TV series Mayor of the Hamlet (1954). In 1960, Mitchell originated the impersonation of Lieutant Columbo (later essayed by Peter Falk) in the Broadway play Medication Murder. Thomas Mitchell died of cancer in December of 1962, just two days after the annihilation of his Hunchback of Notre Dame co-star, Charles Laughton.
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