Millard Mitchell was born of American parents in Havana, Cuba. He was a stage and radio actor in the 1930s in New York. His first cinema appearances were in industrial short features, filmed in New York. His first Hollywood role was in Mr. and Mrs. North (1941). After World War II, Mitchell acted in a goodly number of movies, often cast as sardonic, stolid characters. Although dressed as a clich?in the Anthony Mann western, The Naked Spur (1953), he eluded the usual geezer-sidekick persona a ...[Read Story]