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Robert Mitchum, wearing a trench coat and fedora, sits beside Jane Greer, both looking off to the side, in a scene from Out of the Past (1947). Jacques Tourneur: Out of the Past Cape Fear Lobby card for The Longest Day shows Robert Mitchum as Brigadier General Norman Cota in military uniform, standing on a beach with soldiers and smoke in the background. Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter, wearing a dark hat and suit, shows his hand with LOVE tattooed on his knuckles by a white fence.
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Robert Mitchum: References & Edit History

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David Downing, Robert Mitchum (1985), is an adequate but not particularly insightful biography. Jerry Roberts, Robert Mitchum: A Bio-Bibliography (1992), includes an annotated filmography offering an authoritative guide to Mitchum’s work.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Robert Mitchum. Mar 13, 2026
Cross-references added. Aug 05, 2025
Anniversary information added. Aug 02, 2025
Anniversary information added. Jun 27, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - A Robert Mitchum centenary. May 24, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 21, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Meridian - Robert Mitchum. Jan 13, 2025
Add new Web site: British Film Institute - Robert Mitchum: 10 essential films. Oct 24, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 23, 2024
Corrected display issue. Feb 28, 2019
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Robert Mitchum. May 03, 2018
Add new Web site: American National Biography Online - Biography of Robert Mitchum. Apr 18, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Robert Mitchum. Apr 18, 2017
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Robert Mitchum. Jan 02, 2014
Photograph added. Dec 05, 2013
Added photograph. Nov 06, 2012
Added new Web site: Star Pulse - Biography of Robert Mitchum. Nov 05, 2007
Added new Web site: Hollywood.com - Biography of Robert Mitchum. Nov 05, 2007
Article revised. Feb 16, 2001
Article revised. Apr 07, 1999
New article added. Oct 06, 1998
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