Robert Mitchum Movies: Top 16 Performances by a Successful Actor



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Dead Man Poster
Dead Man ( 1995) | IMDb: 7.5
Drama , Fantasy , Western
William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.
Starring:
Johnny Depp , Gary Farmer , Crispin Glover , Lance Henriksen , Michael Wincott , Eugene Byrd
Directed by:
Constance L. Hoy , Jim Jarmusch , Jude Gorjanc
Produced by:
Laura Rosenthal , Ellen Lewis , Shari Hilliard
Tombstone Poster
Tombstone ( 1993) | IMDb: 7.8
Action , Western
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Starring:
Kurt Russell , Val Kilmer , Sam Elliott , Bill Paxton , Powers Boothe , Michael Biehn
Directed by:
George P. Cosmatos , Adam C. Taylor , Conte Mark Matal
Produced by:
Lora Kennedy , Bob Misiorowski , Patti Hawn
Cape Fear Poster
Cape Fear ( 1991) | IMDb: 7.3
Crime , Drama , Thriller
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Starring:
Robert De Niro , Nick Nolte , Jessica Lange , Juliette Lewis , Joe Don Baker , Robert Mitchum
Directed by:
Martin Scorsese , Nathalie Vadim , Joseph P. Reidy
Produced by:
Kathleen Kennedy , Barbara De Fina , Frank Marshall
Scrooged Poster
Scrooged ( 1988) | IMDb: 6.9
Comedy , Drama , Fantasy
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Starring:
Bill Murray , Karen Allen , John Forsythe , John Glover , Bobcat Goldthwait , David Johansen
Directed by:
James W. Skotchdopole , Patti Dalzell , Jan Kemper
Produced by:
Art Linson , Stephen J. Roth , J. Michael Riva
Midway Poster
Midway ( 1976) | IMDb: 6.7
Action , Drama , History , War
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Starring:
Charlton Heston , Henry Fonda , James Coburn , Glenn Ford , Hal Holbrook , Robert Mitchum
Directed by:
Jack Smight
Produced by:
Walter Mirisch
Farewell, My Lovely Poster
Farewell, My Lovely ( 1975) | IMDb: 7
Crime , Mystery , Thriller
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
Starring:
Robert Mitchum , Charlotte Rampling , John Ireland , Sylvia Miles , Anthony Zerbe , Harry Dean Stanton
Directed by:
Tim Zinnemann , Henry J. Lange Jr. , Dick Richards
Produced by:
Jerry Bruckheimer , Jerry Bick , Tim Zinnemann
The Yakuza Poster
The Yakuza ( 1974) | IMDb: 7.2
Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
Starring:
Robert Mitchum , Ken Takakura , Brian Keith , Herb Edelman , Richard Jordan , Keiko Kishi
Directed by:
Stephen B. Grimes , Michael D. Moore , Sydney Pollack
Produced by:
Sydney Pollack , Michael Hamilburg
Ryan's Daughter Poster
Ryan's Daughter ( 1970) | IMDb: 7.4
Drama , History , Romance
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
Starring:
Robert Mitchum , Trevor Howard , Christopher Jones , John Mills , Leo McKern , Sarah Miles
Directed by:
Jonathan Mills , David Lean , Joe Marks
Produced by:
Stephen B. Grimes , Anthony Havelock-Allan , Douglas Twiddy
Secret Ceremony Poster
Secret Ceremony ( 1968) | IMDb: 6.2
Drama , Mystery , Thriller
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor , Mia Farrow , Robert Mitchum , Peggy Ashcroft , Pamela Brown , Robert Douglas
Directed by:
Joseph Losey
Produced by:
John Heyman , Norman Priggen
El Dorado Poster
El Dorado ( 1966) | IMDb: 7.5
Western
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Starring:
John Wayne , Robert Mitchum , James Caan , Charlene Holt , Paul Fix , Arthur Hunnicutt
Directed by:
Andrew J. Durkus , Howard Hawks , Charlsie Bryant
Produced by:
John R. Coonan , Howard Hawks , Paul Helmick
What a Way to Go! Poster
What a Way to Go! ( 1964) | IMDb: 6.9
Comedy , Romance
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine , Paul Newman , Robert Mitchum , Dean Martin , Gene Kelly , Robert Cummings
Directed by:
J. Lee Thompson , Fred R. Simpson
Produced by:
Arthur P. Jacobs , William Eckhardt
The Longest Day Poster
The Longest Day ( 1962) | IMDb: 7.7
Action , Drama , War
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Starring:
Henry Fonda , John Wayne , Robert Mitchum , Robert Ryan , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault
Directed by:
Gerd Oswald , Bernhard Wicki , Elmo Williams
Produced by:
Elmo Williams , Darryl F. Zanuck , Maude Spector
Cape Fear Poster
Cape Fear ( 1962) | IMDb: 7.7
Drama , Thriller
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Starring:
Gregory Peck , Robert Mitchum , Polly Bergen , Lori Martin , Martin Balsam , Jack Kruschen
Directed by:
J. Lee Thompson , Ray Gosnell Jr.
Produced by:
Sy Bartlett , Ernest B. Wehmeyer
River of No Return Poster
River of No Return ( 1954) | IMDb: 6.6
Adventure , Western
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Starring:
Robert Mitchum , Marilyn Monroe , Rory Calhoun , Tommy Rettig , Murvyn Vye , Douglas Spencer
Directed by:
Otto Preminger , Paul Helmick , Donald C. Klune
Produced by:
Stanley Rubin
One Minute to Zero Poster
One Minute to Zero ( 1952) | IMDb: 5.8
Drama , Romance , War
An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
Starring:
Robert Mitchum , Ann Blyth , William Talman , Charles McGraw , Margaret Sheridan , Richard Egan
Directed by:
John Francis Murphy , Lewis J. Rachmil , Tay Garnett
Produced by:
Tay Garnett , Cliff P. Broughton
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944) | IMDb: 7.2
Drama , War
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Starring:
Van Johnson , Robert Walker , Spencer Tracy , Tim Murdock , Don DeFore , Herbert Gunn
Directed by:
Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by:
Sam Zimbalist