Still of Robert Mitchum and Lizabeth Scott in The Racket (1951)
 
				
				
						 Caption: Still of Robert Mitchum and Lizabeth Scott in The Racket (1951)
																																				
						Actor, Soundtrack, Producer
						Born: August 6, 1917
						Star sign: Leo
						Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
						Known for: The Night of the Hunter (1955), Cape Fear (1991), Out of the Past (1947), Ryan's Daughter (1970)
						Source: IMDB
						Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. His father died in a train accident when he was two, and Robert and his ...