Robert Mitchum - biography

“Only difference between me and other actors is I’ve spent more time in jail.”

“I gave up being serious about making pictures years ago, around the time I made a film with Greer Garson and she took 125 takes to say ‘No’.”

“I’ve played everything except midgets and women.”

“I always used to sign Kirk Douglas or Gary Cooper.”

“John Huston told me early on: ‘I don’t change anything.  If that’s the way they want it, that’s the way they got it.  They want bad pictures, we can make ’em bad too.  Cost a little more.’”

“I used to reply.  Dreadful mistake.  They show up at the house.  My wife answers the door.  ‘They’re gone for the summer.  I’m the housekeeper.’”

“A sense of humor is a salvation.  It’s saved me so far.  If you can’t laugh, you’re dead.  I’m laughing all the time.”

“We got married in a kitchen because it was the warmest room in the house.  Place smelled of cabbage and a wasted preacher.  He kept spitting in the sink.”

“Howard Hughes said one time: ‘My God, Mitch, you’re just like a pay toilet - you don’t give a shit for nothin’.’”

“I think about it, every morning.  But some years ago, I lost a lot of money.  The cupboard was bare.”

“Rumours?  They’re all true.  Booze, broads.  Make up some more if you want to.”

“Every two or three years I knock off for a while.  That way I’m constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.”

“I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue.  They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.”

“People think I have an interesting walk.  Hell, I’m just trying to hold my gut in.”

“There just isn’t any pleasing some people.  The trick is to stop trying.”

Robert Mitchum has appeared in the following films:
Saboteur (1942)
The Human Comedy (1943)
Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
Aerial Gunner (1943)
Border Patrol (1943)
Follow the Band (1943)
Leather Burners (1943)
Colt Comrades (1943)
We’ve Never Been Licked (1943)
The Lone Star Trail (1943)
Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
Corvette K-225 (1943)
Bar 20 (1943)
Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
False Colors (1943)
Minesweeper (1943)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
Cry ’Havoc’ (1943)
Riders of the Deadline (1943)
’Gung Ho!’: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders (1943)
Johnny Doesn’t Live Here Any More (1944)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
When Strangers Marry (1944)
Girl Rush (1944)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Nevada (1944)
Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
West of the Pecos (1945)
Till the End of Time (1946)
Undercurrent (1946)
The Locket (1946)
Pursued (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
The Red Pony (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
Holiday Affair (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
The Racket (1951)
Macao (1952)
One Minute to Zero (1952)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Angel Face (1952)
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Second Chance (1953)
She Couldn’t Say No (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Man with the Gun (1955)
Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Bandido (1956)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Fire Down Below (1957)
The Enemy Below (1957)
Thunder Road (1958)
The Hunters (1958)
The Angry Hills (1959)
The Wonderful Country (1959)
Home from the Hill (1960)
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Grass Is Greener (1960)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Rampage (1963)
Man in the Middle (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Mister Moses (1965)
El Dorado (1966)
The Way West (1967)
Villa Rides (1968)
Lo Sbarco di Anzio (1968)
5 Card Stud (1968)
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Young Billy Young (1969)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
Going Home (1971)
The Wrath of God (1972)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
The Yakuza (1974)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Midway (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Amsterdam Kill (1977)
The Big Sleep (1978)
Matilda (1978)
Steiner – Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (1979)
Agency (1980)
Nightkill (1980)
That Championship Season (1982)
The Ambassador (1984)
Maria’s Lovers (1984)
Mr. North (1988)
Scrooged (1988)
Midnight Ride (1990)
Waiting for the Wind (1990)
Présumé dangereux (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1992)
Woman of Desire (1993)
Tombstone (1993)
Backfire! (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Pakten (1995)