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Robert Mitchum (Robert Charles Durman Mitchum) was born on 6 August, 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S., is an American actor (1917–1997). Discover Robert Mitchum's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Robert Charles Durman Mitchum
Occupation Actor · singer
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 6 August 1917
Birthday 6 August
Birthplace Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Date of death 1 July, 1997
Died Place Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Robert Mitchum Height, Weight & Measurements

At 80 years old, Robert Mitchum height is 6′ 1″ .

Physical Status
Height 6′ 1″
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
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Who Is Robert Mitchum's Wife?

His wife is Dorothy Spence (m. 1940)

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Dorothy Spence (m. 1940)
Sibling Not Available
Children 3, including James and Christopher Mitchum

Robert Mitchum Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Robert Mitchum worth at the age of 80 years old? Robert Mitchum’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Robert Mitchum's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)$100 /week
Aerial Gunner (1943)$75 /day
Border Patrol (1943)$100 /week
Minesweeper (1943)$75 /day
Story of G.I. Joe (1945)$350 /week
Undercurrent (1946)$25,000
Desire Me (1947)$25,000
Out of the Past (1947)$10,400
Out of the Past (1947)$10,333 .33
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)$3,000 /week
River of No Return (1954)$5,000 /week
Home from the Hill (1960)$200,000 + % of gross
The Sundowners (1960)$200,000
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)$100,000
Mister Moses (1965)$400,000
Secret Ceremony (1968)$150,000
Young Billy Young (1969)$200,000 + 20% of gross
Young Billy Young (1969)$200 .000 + 27% of the net gross
Ryan's Daughter (1970)$870,000
Agency (1980)$500,000
The Winds of War (1983)$1,250,000
War and Remembrance (1988)$1,000,000

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1914

His older sister, Annette (known as Julie Mitchum during her acting career), was born in 1914.

1917

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances.

He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on August 6, 1917, into a Methodist family of Scots-Irish, Native American, and Norwegian descent.

His father, James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard and railroad worker, was of Scottish-Irish and Native American descent, and his mother, Ann Harriet Gunderson, was a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain's daughter.

1919

James was crushed to death in a railyard accident in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1919.

His widow, Ann, was pregnant at the time, and was awarded a government pension.

She returned to Connecticut after staying for some time in her husband's hometown of Lane, South Carolina.

Her third child, John, was born in September 1919.

When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.

She married Lieutenant Hugh "The Major" Cunningham Morris, a former Royal Naval Reserve officer.

1926

In 1926, his mother sent him and his younger brother to live with her parents on a farm near Woodside, Delaware.

He attended Felton High School, where he was expelled for mischief.

During his years at the Felton school, he ran away from home for the first time at age 11.

1928

They had a daughter, Carol Morris, born c. 1928 on the family farm in Delaware.

As a child, Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief.

1929

In 1929, Mitchum and his younger brother were sent to Philadelphia to live with their older sister, Julie, who had started her career as a performer in vaudeville acts on the East Coast.

The following year, he and the rest of the family moved to New York with Julie, sharing an apartment in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen with her and her husband.

Mitchum attended Haaren High School but was eventually expelled.

Mitchum left home at age 14 and traveled throughout the country, hopping freight cars and taking a number of jobs, including ditch-digging for the Civilian Conservation Corps and professional boxing.

1930

In the mid-1930s Julie Mitchum moved to the West Coast in the hope of acting in movies, and the rest of the Mitchum family soon followed her to Long Beach, California.

1933

In summer 1933, he was arrested for vagrancy in Savannah, Georgia and put in a local chain gang.

By Mitchum's account, he escaped and hitchhiked to Rising Sun, Delaware, where his family had moved.

That fall, at age 16, while recovering from injuries that nearly cost him a leg, he met 14-year-old Dorothy Spence, whom he would later marry.

He soon went back on the road, eventually "riding the rails" to California.

1936

Robert arrived in 1936.

During this time, Mitchum worked as a ghostwriter for astrologer Carroll Righter.

Julie persuaded him to join the local theater guild with her.

At The Players Guild of Long Beach, Mitchum worked as a stagehand and occasional bit-player in company productions.

He also wrote several short pieces which were performed by the guild.

According to Lee Server's biography, Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care, Mitchum put his talent for poetry to work writing song lyrics and monologues for Julie's nightclub performances.

1940

In 1940, he returned to Delaware to marry Dorothy Spence, and they moved back to California.

1945

Mitchum rose to prominence with an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor for The Story of G.I. Joe (1945).

1947

His best-known films include Out of the Past (1947), Angel Face (1953), River of No Return (1954), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Thunder Road (1958), The Sundowners (1960), Cape Fear (1962), El Dorado, (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).

1983

He is also known for his television role as U.S. Navy Captain Victor "Pug" Henry in the epic miniseries The Winds of War (1983) and sequel War and Remembrance (1988).

Film critic Roger Ebert called Mitchum his favorite movie star and the soul of film noir: "With his deep, laconic voice and his long face and those famous weary eyes, he was the kind of guy you'd picture in a saloon at closing time, waiting for someone to walk in through the door and break his heart."

David Thomson wrote: "Since the war, no American actor has made more first-class films, in so many different moods."

1984

He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1992.

Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male stars of classic American cinema.