What is Robert Mitchum?
{{Infobox person | image = Robert Mitchum 1949 (no signature).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Mitchum in 1949 | name = Robert Mitchum | birthname = Robert Charles Durman Mitchum | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|8|6}} | birth_place = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], [[United States]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|7|1|1917|8|6}} | death_place = [[Santa Barbara, California]], United States | death_cause = [[Lung cancer]] | othername = | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|singer|composer|poet|producer|director|screenwriter}} | yearsactive = 1942-1997 | spouse = {{marriage|Dorothy Spence|1940|1997}} (his death) | homepage = | children = 3, including [[James Mitchum|James]] and [[Christopher Mitchum]] | relations = [[Grace Van Dien]] (great-granddaughter) }} '''Robert Mitchum''' (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.he died of lung cancer at age 79 in California. He was born in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1917 == Career == He began his career by participating in small roles in movies The Human Comedy (1943), Follow the Band (1943), Beyond the Last Frontier (1943). Mitchum began to make known after playing the role of pilot Bob Gray, in war movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), from that film began to star in many war movies as Story of G.I. Joe (1945), is Capt. Bill Walker, fighting in North Africa during World War II. One Minute to Zero (1952), The Hunters (1958), The Enemy Below (1957), A Terrible Beauty (1960), The Longest Day (1962), Man in the Middle (1963), Anzio (1968), and Midway (1976). Two of his best films are The Night of the Hunter (1955), by [[Charles Laughton]], He plays a false Reverend Harry Powell, who marries a widow of Ben Harper, who before he died he hid the loot from a [[robbery]] at his home. In the [[J. Lee Thompson]] thriller [[Cape Fear (1962 movie)|Cape Fear]] (1962), He embodies the role of a former inmate and dangerous [[psychopath]] Max Cady who pursues the lawyer who defended him at his trial. The lawyer's role wa