From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Millard Mitchell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1953Here Come the Girls — Albert Snodgrass
• 1953The Naked Spur — Jesse Tate
• 1952My Six Convicts — James T. Connie
• 1952Singin' in the Rain — R.F. Simpson
• 1951Strictly Dishonorable — Bill Dempsey
• 1951You're in the Navy Now — George Larrabee
• 1950Convicted — Malloby
• 1950Mister 880 — "Mac" McIntire
• 1950The Gunfighter — Marshal Mark Strett
• 1950Winchester '73 — High Spade
• 1949Everybody Does It — Mike Craig
• 1949Thieves' Highway — Ed Kinney
• 1949Twelve O'Clock High — Major General Patrick Pritchard
• 1948A Foreign Affair — Col. Rufus J. Plummer
• 1947A Double Life — Al Cooley
• 1947Kiss of Death — Detective (uncredited)
• 1946Swell Guy — Steve
• 1943Dixie Dugan — Accident Victim (uncredited)
• 1943Slightly Dangerous — Baldwin
• 1942Get Hep to Love — McCarthy
• 1942Grand Central Murder — Detective Arthur Doolin
• 1942Mr. and Mrs. North — Mullins
• 1942The Big Street — Gentleman George (uncredited)
• 1942The Mayor of 44th Street — Herman
• 1940The Girl on the Magazine Cover — Photographer
• 1932Singapore Sue — Second Sailor
• 1931A Lesson in Love — Freshmen
• 1931My Sin — Trooper
• 1931Secrets of a Secretary — Policeman
• 1931The Cheat — Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
• 1931What Price Pants — Secretary (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2002Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer — Self (archive footage)
• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)