Actor robert mitchum biography 1943
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Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum - Biography, movies and acting analysis
Early Life
Robert Mitchum was born in 1917, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He is the son of Ann Harriet (née Gunderson) and James Thomas Mitchum.
Actor robert mitchum biography 1943
His father was a shipyard and railroad worker of Irish descent, who died in a railyard accident when Robert was just two years old. His mother, of Norwegian descent, remarried a major in the British Army, and the family moved around frequently.
Mitchum had a tumultuous childhood and was expelled from high school at the age of 14.
Career Beginnings
Mitchum found himself working a variety of jobs, ranging from ghostwriting for a comic book artist to serving as a machine operator at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
His acting career began in the late 1930s when he started to pick up bit parts in B-movies and serials. His first credited role was as a villain in the Hopalong Cassidy western "Hoppy Serves a Writ" (1943).
Rise to Stardom
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