Millard Mitchell

Who was Millard Mitchell?

Millard Mitchell was an American character actor whose credits include roughly thirty feature films and two television appearances.

Born in Havana, Cuba, he appeared as a bit player in eight films between 1931 and 1936. Mitchell returned to film work in 1942 after a six-year absence. Between 1942 and 1953, he was a successful supporting actor.

For his performance in the 1952 film, My Six Convicts, Mitchell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is also known for his role as Col. Rufus Plummer in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair, as Gregory Peck's commanding officer in the war drama Twelve O'Clock High, and as movie mogul "R. F. Simpson" in the musical comedy Singin' in the Rain.

Mitchell died at the age of fifty from lung cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, and was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.