Thomas Mitchell

Highest Rated:
100% Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Lowest Rated:
14% Another Stakeout (1993)
Birthday:
Jul 11, 1892
Birthplace:
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Bio:
Certainly there have been many phrases coined about Thomas Mitchell as one of the most recognizable and exemplary character actor of Hollywood's golden years, but behind that elfish demeanor that could fit anywhere in a film was a talent to fit many hats. He was a first generation American of Irish…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 14% - 100%
Number of Movies: 58
Box Office Since 2001: $90.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Teddy Bear
  • Actor
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2010 72% Red
  • Lone Agent
$90.4M
2007 Sci-Fi Serial Classics
  • Actor
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2004 Meet Mr. Kringle
  • Actor
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1994 47% PCU
  • Bantam Draper
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1993 14% Another Stakeout
  • Seattle Det. Gilliam
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1988 Old-Fashioned Christmas
  • Actor
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1961 63% Pocketful of Miracles
  • Judge Henry G. Blake
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1961 By Love Possessed
  • Noah Tuttle
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1955 100% While the City Sleeps
  • John Day Griffith
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1955 Miracle on 34th Street
  • Kris Kringle
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1954 Secret of the Incas
  • Ed Morgan
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1954 Big Moment
  • Actor
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1952 96% High Noon
  • Jonas Henderson
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1950 The Toast of New Orleans
  • Actor
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1949 Alias Nick Beal (The Contact Man)
  • Joseph Foster
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1949 Alias Nick Beal
  • Actor
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1949 The Big Wheel
  • Red Stanley
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1948 Silver River
  • John Plato Beck
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1947 Romance of Rosy Ridge
  • Gill MacBean
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1946 The Dark Mirror
  • Lieutenant Stevenson
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1946 93% It's a Wonderful Life
  • Uncle Billy
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1945 Adventure
  • Mudgin
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1944 The Keys of the Kingdom
  • Dr. Willie Tullock
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1944 The Fighting Sullivans
  • Mr. Sullivan
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1944 Dark Waters
  • Mr. Sydney
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1944 88% Wilson
  • Joseph Tumulty
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1944 Buffalo Bill
  • Ned Buntline
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1943 Howard Hughes: The Outlaw
  • Actor
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1943 Flesh And Fantasy
  • Septimus Podgers
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1943 Immortal Sergeant
  • Sgt. Kelly
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1943 89% The Outlaw
  • Pat Garrett
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1943 Bataan
  • Cpl. Jake Feingold
  • Director
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1942 Song of the Islands
  • Dennis O'Brien
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1942 Tales of Manhattan
  • John Halloway
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1942 Moontide
  • Tiny
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1942 The Black Swan
  • Tommy Blue
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1942 This Above All
  • Monty
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1942 Joan of Paris
  • Father Antoine
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1941 Out of the Fog
  • Jonah Goodwin
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1941 Flight from Destiny
  • Prof. Henry Todhunter
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1940 Three Cheers for the Irish
  • Peter Casey
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1940 100% The Long Voyage Home
  • Aloysius Driscoll
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1940 Swiss Family Robinson
  • William Robinson
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1940 60% Angels over Broadway
  • Gene Gibbons
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1940 86% Our Town
  • Dr. Gibbs
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1939 94% Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Diz Moore
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1939 100% The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Clopin
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1939 96% Gone With the Wind
  • Gerald O'Hara
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1939 100% Only Angels Have Wings
  • Kid Dabb
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1939 100% Stagecoach
  • Doc Boone
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1937 100% Make Way for Tomorrow
  • George Cooper
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1937 When You're in Love
  • Hank Miller
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1937 The Hurricane
  • Dr. Kersaint
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1937 100% Lost Horizon
  • Henry Barnard
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1936 Craig's Wife
  • Fergus Passmore
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1936 Adventure in Manhattan (Manhattan Madness)
  • Phil Bane
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1936 Theodora Goes Wild
  • Jed Waterbury
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Quotes from Thomas Mitchell's Characters

    1. Uncle Billy: They did it, they did it, George, they voted Potter down. And they only had one condition, and that's the best part. They want you to run the Building and Loan.
    2. George Bailey: No, no, this is my last chance to get away from here. Harry Bailey is your man, he will run the Building and Loan.
    3. Uncle Billy: But George, they'll vote with Potter otherwise...
    From It's a Wonderful Life. Submitted by Stan D (5 months ago)
    1. Mammy: You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. I's talking 'bout Mr. Ashley Wilkes. He'll be comin' to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you sittin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider. He belongs to Miss Melanie...
    2. Rhett Butler: How fickle is woman.
    3. Rhett Butler: With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
    4. Rhett Butler: I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over.
    5. Scarlett O'Hara: Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
    6. Gerald O'Hara: It will come to you, this love of the land. There's no gettin' away from it if you're Irish.
    7. Rhett Butler: No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
    From Gone With the Wind. Submitted by rick b (13 months ago)
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