Robert Mitchum: An Exceptional Actor In The Film

“Robert Mitchum was a one-of-a-kinder, he was a legend, bigger than life.” Bruce Dern, a former Co-star, said in an interview (“Robert Mitchum”). To be honest, he is the most legendary, but an exceptional actor in the whole film industry. He was a hobo before he started his acting career, and kept a hobo’s heart till he died (Clarke). He was an actor who was famous of acting as a “western” over 100 movies as well (“Robert Mitchum”). He was so special that until 1970s, a new generation of critics placed him in the first rank of screen actors, before that, he didn’t get any Oscar. Robert Mitchum, the most all-powerful actor in the movie stars’ history ever. Unlike any other movie stars in the industry of that time, Robert Mitchum came from
In 1945, Robert Mitchum took the job of performed as a fictionalized version of the real life hero of “The Death of Captain Waskow” in the film “The Story of G.I.JOE”, which was based on Ernie Pyle’s war dispatches(Teachout). This film brought him an Oscar nomination. (Teachout). And in 1952, in the movie “The Lusty Men”, directed by Nicholas Ray, Mitchum played a washed-up rodeo rider who has learned from punishingly hard experience that the cowboy’s life is “Chicken today, feathers tomorrow.”, showed what he was capable of as an actor (Teachout). After that, Robert Mitchum was entirely sunk into the tough guy movies, ranging from westerns to war films. But he didn’t like it. “For a while it looked like I was going to be stuck in westerns,” Robert Mitchum, the movie star, said in an interview, “I didn’t want [that].” (“Robert Mitchum”). Thus, he tried to apply him into any other roles, “I don’t care what I play,” Robert Mitchum, the screen star, said, “I’ll play polish gays, women, midgets, anything.” (“Robert Mitchum”), he was trying to break his overly familiar he-man image, however, ironically, the attempts of switching his image gave the producers an impression of almighty actor of him , “I think when producers have a part that’s hard to cast, they say ‘send for Mitchum; he’ll do anything.’” Robert Mitchum, the movie star, told the reporter (“Robert Mitchum”). therefore, Robert
But he didn’t change his goal of changing his image. After a year, when Charles Laughton invited Mitchum to take part in the movie “Night of the Hunter”, Mitchum accepted it since this movie could give him a chance to make a change of his reputation, but the movie failed at the box office (Teachout). Once he found out that he wasn’t really that good at film industry, he switched himself to make traditional screen entertainments, for instance, psychotic killer, J. Lee Thompson’s Cape fear in 1962; EI Dorado, Howard Hawks’s 1966 remake of Rio Bravo (Teachout). Also, he gave the title role in Franklin Schaffner’s “Patton” to George C. Scott, which helped George win the Best Actor Oscar (Teachout). That’s pretty much his whole career, began with a tough-boy style western, ended with an almighty