By the time she returned to the screen for Fire Down Below ( 1957 ) with Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak had become Columbia's top female star.

In 1960 he returned to Australia to play a sheep drover in The Sundowners, starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.

Ripley returned to directing one more time, at the request of Robert Mitchum, for Thunder Road ( 1958 ) before returning to U. C. L. A.

The film stars noir icons Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer.

The first adult film he recalls having seen was the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road ( starring Robert Mitchum ) the violence and darkness of which left an impression on the seven-year-old Jarmusch.

Produced at a cost of almost $ 9 million with a high-profile cast including John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne and, in his final role, Robert Mitchum, the film marked a significant departure for the director from his previous features.

The film features Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame.

* The Big Sleep, a 1978 film starring Robert Mitchum

In this film, Robert Mitchum played the Dean Martin role, Arthur Hunnicutt the Walter Brennan character and James Caan the Ricky Nelson role.

Along with Wayne and Elam, this movie starred Mexican film star Jorge Rivero ( as Frenchie ), Christopher Mitchum ( Robert Mitchum's son ) and Jennifer O ' Neill.

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum ( August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997 ) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is # 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.

Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.

Shortly after making the film, Mitchum himself was drafted into the U. S. Army, serving at Fort MacArthur, California.

Mitchum was initially known for his work in film noir.

Rachel and the Stranger ( 1948 ) featured Mitchum in a supporting role as a mountain man competing for the hand of Loretta Young, the indentured servant and wife of William Holden, while he appeared in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novella The Red Pony ( 1949 ) as a trusted cowhand to a ranching family.

The Josef von Sternberg film Macao ( 1952 ) saw Mitchum a victim of mistaken identity at an exotic resort casino, playing opposite Jane Russell.

In the film, Simmons plays an insane heiress who plans to use young ambulance driver Mitchum to kill for her.

Based on a novel by Davis Grubb, the film noir thriller starred Mitchum as a monstrous criminal posing as a preacher to find money hidden by his cellmate in the cellmate's home.

The film starred Mitchum against type, as an idealistic young doctor, who marries an older nurse ( Olivia de Havilland ), only to question his morality many years later.

However, the film was not well received, with most critics pointing out that Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and Lee Marvin were all too old for their characters.

According to Metro Pulse writer Jack Renfro, the incident occurred in 1952 and may have been witnessed by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum – who not only starred in the movie, but also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself.

Mitchum and Kerr reunited for the Fred Zinnemann film, The Sundowners ( 1960 ), where they played husband and wife struggling in Depression-era Australia.

Opposite Mitchum, Kerr was nominated for yet another Academy Award for Best Actress, while the film was nominated for a total of five Oscars.

Mitchum as Max Cady in Cape Fear ( 1962 film ) | Cape Fear ( 1962 )

John Brahm's The Locket ( 1946 ) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-husband to Laraine Day's femme fatale, while Raoul Walsh's Pursued ( 1947 ) combined western and noir styles, with Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those responsible for killing his family.

The Racket was a noir remake of the early crime drama of the same name and featured Mitchum as a police captain fighting corruption in his precinct.

* Crossfire ( film ), 1947 film noir starring Robert Mitchum

Pursued is a 1947 movie starring Robert Mitchum that combines western, film noir and psychological melodrama.

She followed this with supporting roles in another thriller, The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), directed by Robert Siodmak, the Randolph Scott western Abilene Town ( 1946 ), and the film noir classic Out of the Past ( 1947 ) with Robert Mitchum.

Kirkland based the design of Colt on Robert Mitchum, who, in addition to being a film noir actor, played a detective in the 1991 film Cape Fear.

Inasmuch, as I admired fine actors like Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, Robert Mitchum, and others who had made their early marks in the dark, sordid, and guilt-ridden world of film noir ; here, indeed, was a market for my talents.

The Big Steal is a 1949 black-and-white film noir / comedy reteaming Out of the Past stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

Another notable film of the period — for which Busch wrote the original screenplay — was Pursued starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright, one of the first psychological Westerns with " noir " overtones.

The film, starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Preston has many film noir elements.

* The Big Sleep ( 1978 ) — Robert Mitchum as Marlowe.

Robert Mitchum is Marlowe in the 1978 remake of The Big Sleep set in contemporary London.

Mitchum, a former actor who appeared in the John Wayne motion pictures Chisum ( 1970 ), Rio Lobo ( 1970 ) and Big Jake ( 1971 ), with Charlton Heston in Last Hard Men ( 1976 ), and Tombstone ( 1993 ), and starred in some 60 films in 14 different countries.

Before his famous role as Jeff Miller in the first Lassie television series, Rettig also appeared in about 18 feature films including So Big, The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T ( written by Dr. Seuss ) and River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum.

Hughes lent out the actress to RKO to star in many films, including Dick Tracy ( 1945 ), Out of the Past ( 1947 ), They Won't Believe Me ( 1947 ), and the comedy / suspense film The Big Steal ( 1949 ), alongside Out of the Past co-star Robert Mitchum.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

Crossfire ( also 1947 ) featured Mitchum as a member of a group of soldiers, one of whom killed a Jewish man in an act of anti-Jewish hatred.

Stanley Kramer's melodrama Not as a Stranger though, also released in 1955, was a box office hit for Mitchum.

Mitchum also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road.

Mitchum also co-wrote and composed the music for an oratorio which was produced by Orson Welles at the Hollywood Bowl.

* National Board of Review Award for Best Actor-Robert Mitchum ( also for Home from the Hill )

It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself.

Lucas is concerned that his younger brother Robin ( James Mitchum ), who is also his mechanic, will be tempted into following in his footsteps and becoming a moonshine runner.

He also established himself as a favorite of producer Stanley Kramer, taking key supporting roles in the western High Noon ( 1952 ) ( starring Gary Cooper ), Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), a hospital melodrama featuring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra, and The Defiant Ones ( 1958, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier ).

Although a remake of the original Cape Fear, Scorsese's update is also greatly influenced by another Mitchum film, The Night of the Hunter, and the work of Alfred Hitchcock ( signaled by the opening credits by regular Hitchcock collaborator Saul Bass and its score by another, Bernard Herrmann ).

Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, and Burt Lancaster were also offered the role.

Foster also produced Billy Grammer, Ray Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, Tony Joe White, Larry Gatlin, Charlie McCoy, Al Hirt, Boots Randolph, Jerry Byrd, Billy Joe Shaver, Grandpa Jones, The Velvets and Robert Mitchum.

Tombstone is a 1993 American Western directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre ( who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production ) and starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Dana Delany, and narrated by Robert Mitchum.

His first movie with them was the classic war film The Enemy Below, which also starred Robert Mitchum.

He is also the younger brother of actor James Mitchum.

He is also the grandfather of Cappy Van Dien, Grace Van Dien, Allexanne Mitchum and Carrington Wyatt.

His movies include the title role in Ensign Pulver ( 1964 ) with Burl Ives and Walter Matthau, The War Wagon ( 1967 ) with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, the title role in Young Billy Young alongside Robert Mitchum in 1969, Easy Rider, also in 1969, and Beware!

But he did also appear in big-budget fare such as The Adventurers ( 1970 ) and as a police lieutenant in the Robert Mitchum private-eye caper Farewell, My Lovely.

Homer surprising Bart with his new hockey mask recalls the film Friday the 13th Part III and Sideshow Bob's tattoos on his knuckles are similar to those of Robert Mitchum's character in The Night of the Hunter ( Mitchum also played the villain Max Cady in the original 1962 version of Cape Fear ).

American movie star Robert Mitchum also recorded the song and released it on his 1957 hit album " Calypso … Is Like So ".

Mitchum had also portrayed Philip Marlowe three years earlier in Farewell, My Lovely, although that film was shot as a period piece rather than set in the present day.

See also Mitchum ( surname )