Thomas Mitchell

Actor

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Birth Place

Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA

Born

July 11, 1892

Died

December 17, 1962

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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One of Hollywood's most versatile character actors from the early 1920s through the 50s. Mitchell's range easily accommodated both comedy and melodrama, and his memorable gallery of characters included the tippling doctor in "Stagecoach" (1939) and the proud Irish patriarch in "Gone With the Wind" (1939)....

Filmography

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All of Me (1934)

Dialogue Director

By Love Possessed (1961)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Judge Henry G. Blake, also known as Judge E. Worthington Manville

Handle with Care (1958)

Mayor Dick Williston

While the City Sleeps (1956)

John Day Griffith

[Reginald T.] Rags Barnaby

Photos & Videos

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Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) If There Is A Prolonged Delay

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Where Civilization Ends

Biography

One of Hollywood's most versatile character actors from the early 1920s through the 50s. Mitchell's range easily accommodated both comedy and melodrama, and his memorable gallery of characters included the tippling doctor in "Stagecoach" (1939) and the proud Irish patriarch in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

All of Me (1934)

Dialogue Director

Cast (Feature Film)

By Love Possessed (1961)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Judge Henry G. Blake, also known as Judge E. Worthington Manville

Handle with Care (1958)

Mayor Dick Williston

While the City Sleeps (1956)

John Day Griffith

[Reginald T.] Rags Barnaby

Secret of the Incas (1954)

High Noon (1952)

Jonas Henderson

Journey into Light (1951)

The Big Wheel (1949)

Arthur "Red" Stanley

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

Silver River (1948)

John Plato Beck

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

High Barbaree (1947)

Capt. Thad Vail

The Dark Mirror (1946)

Detective Stephenson

Adventure (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Three Wise Fools (1946)

Terence Aloysius O'Davern

The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)

Dr. Willie Tulloch

Within These Walls (1945)

Judge Michael Howland

Captain Eddie (1945)

The Sullivans (1944)

Thomas F. Sullivan

Dark Waters (1944)

Buffalo Bill (1944)

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Septimus Podgers

The Outlaw (1943)

Corp. Jake Feingold

Immortal Sergeant (1943)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

[John] Halloway

This Above All (1942)

Joan of Paris (1942)

Moontide (1942)

The Black Swan (1942)

Song of the Islands (1942)

Flight from Destiny (1941)

Professor Henry Todhunter

Out of the Fog (1941)

Our Town (1940)

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)

Swiss Family Robinson (1940)

William Robinson

Angels over Broadway (1940)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

Doc [Josiah] Boone

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Trade Winds (1938)

Police commissioner [Blackton]

Love, Honor and Behave (1938)

When You're in Love (1937)

Lost Horizon (1937)

[Henry] Barnard

The Hurricane (1937)

Man of the People (1937)

[William J.] Grady

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

I Promise to Pay (1937)

Craig's Wife (1936)

Fergus Passmore

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

Six Cylinder Love (1923)

Writer (Feature Film)

Life Begins with Love (1937)

All of Me (1934)

Cast (Special)

The Joke and the Valley (1961)

The Right Man (1960)

Grover Cleveland

Miracle on 34th Street (1955)

Backbone of America (1953)

Cast (Short)

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Sullivans - Movie Posters

The Sullivans - Movie Posters

The Hurricane - Lobby Cards

The Hurricane - Lobby Cards

Wilson - Movie Poster

Wilson - Movie Poster

Gone With the Wind - Behind-The-Scenes Photos

Here are a number of photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind (1939), starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh and directed by Victor Fleming and George Cukor.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Scene Stills

Here are some scene stills from RKO's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.

Three Wise Fools - Lobby Card

Here is a Lobby Card from MGM's Three Wise Fools (1946), starring Margaret O'Brien. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

It's a Wonderful Life - Lobby Card Set

Here is a lobby card set from Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) If There Is A Prolonged Delay Nearly smarmy Chang (H.B. Warner) now feeds Conway (Ronald Colman), brother George (John Howard) and fellow plane crash survivors (Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell) and mentions their rescue from the Himalayan monastery community could take years, about which they speculate, in Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon, 1937.

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Where Civilization Ends Big special effects as Robert (Ronald Colman) and brother George (John Howard) Conway and cohorts (Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton and Isabel Jewell), evacuated from a crisis in China, crash land somewhere beyond Tibet in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, 1939.

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Shangri La Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) and fellow crash survivors (Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard and Isabel Jewell) are led into Shangri-La by Chang (H.B. Warner) in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, 1937, from the James Hilton novel.

Black Swan, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Ye Porker's Sterne At a tavern in Jamaica, 1674, pirate Leech (George Sanders) dominates until challenged by rival Waring (Tyrone Power) and sidekick (Thomas Mitchell), fencing until the apparently legit new English governor Morgan (Laird Cregar) intervenes, in The Black Swan, 1942, co-starring Maureen O'Hara.

Black Swan, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) The Captain's Share Just liberated by his pal Blue (Thomas Mitchell) from the Spanish and having himself jailed the cooperating English Governor Denby, refusing to believe his claim of a peace treaty, pirate “Jamie” Waring (Tyrone Power) likes the governor’s daughter (Maureen O’Hara) better, in Jamaica, 1674, early in 20th Century-Fox’s The Black Swan, 1942.

Black Swan, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) The English Dog Still Barks Tyrone Power on the rack in Technicolor, as captured English pirate "Jamie" Waring, grilled by a Spanish colonial official (Fortuno Bonanova), then rescued by pal Tommy Blue (Thomas Mitchell), early in The Black Swan, 1942, from the Rafael Sabatini novel.

Black Swan, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I've Known Too Many Hellcats Pirate "Jamie" Waring (Tyrone Power), in Jamaica, 1674, has political, personal and chauvinistic reasons to abduct Lady Margaret (Maureen O'Hara), daughter of the deposed English governor, Thomas Mitchell as his annoyed cohort "Tommy," in The Black Swan, 1942.

Adventure (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Imitate A Rooster? Pal-ing around now outside San Francisco with now less-uptight librarian Emily (Greer Garson), beached sea captain Harry (Clark Gable) is helping steal chickens from her crooked neighbors, leading to hijinks and action, her friend Joan Blondell welcoming their escape, in MGM’s Adventure, 1946.

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) -- (Movie Clip) There's A Bank For You Introducing the cast and circumstance, George (Thomas Mitchell) joins mother (Beulah Bondi), father (Victor Moore) sisters (Minna Gombell, Elisabeth Risdon) and brother (Ray Mayer), opening Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow, 1937.

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You Know I Worry Rhoda (Barbara Read) checks with usherette (Terry Ray) thinking she's ditched Granny (Beulah Bondi) at the movies, then returning home to George and Anita (Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter) at their bridge game, in Make Way For Tomorrow, 1937.

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You Know How It Is Cutting to the big city, Rhoda (Barbara Read) with mom Anita (Fay Bainter) who nudges dad George (Thomas Mitchell) to call and ask aunt Nellie (Minna Gombell) to take Granny for the evening, in Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow, 1937.

Alias Nick Beal (1949) -- (Movie Clip) In Every Man There's An Imperfection Opening with Ray Milland briefly the voice of the title character, who won’t be introduced for some time, as we meet Thomas Mitchell as prosecutor Foster, and Fred Clark as crime boss Faulkner, John Farrow directing, from a story by Mindret Lord, in Alias Nick Beal, 1949.

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington - (Original Trailer) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939), Frank Capra's masterpiece about a naive young senator (James Stewart) who uncovers political corruption.

Pocketful Of Miracles (1961) -- (Original Trailer) Bette Davis plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra's last movie, Pocketful Of Miracles (1961).

Only Angels Have Wings - (Original Trailer) Cary Grant heads a team of flyers in a mountainous South American country in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings (1939).

Man of the People - (Original Trailer) After years playing villains, Joseph Calleia gets to be the hero as an immigrant studying law in Man of the People (1937).

Three Cheers For The Irish - (Original Trailer) It's Angus' Irish Rose as a Scots lad and an Irish lass anger their families by marrying in Three Cheers for the Irish (1940).

Three Wise Fools - (Original Trailer) An orphan girl (Margaret O'Brien) melts the hearts of three crusty old men (Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Edward Arnold).

Make Way For Tomorrow - (Original Trailer) An elderly couple are forced to move in with their children in Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow (1937).

Handle with Care - (Original Trailer) During a mock trial, a small-town law student uncovers new evidence about a real crime in Handle With Care (1958).

By Love Possessed - (Original Trailer) Lana Turner's desperate search for love leads to an affair with her husband's law partner in John Sturges' By Love Possessed (1961).

Gone With the Wind (1939) -- (1961 Re-Issue Trailer) Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) fights to save her beloved plantation and find love during the Civil War in Gone With the Wind (1939).

Silver River - (Original Trailer) A ruthless gambler's rise to power is cut short by character flaws in Silver River (1948) starring Errol Flynn.

Black Swan, The - (Original Trailer) When he's named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean in The Black Swan, 1942, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.

Family

James Mitchell

Nephew

Former Secretary of Labor.

Bibliography

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