James Mitchell (actor)

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James Mitchell and Anne Bancroft in At the Turning Point

James Mitchell (born February 29, 1920 in Sacramento , California - † January 22, 2010 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor and dancer .

Life

After finishing school, Mitchell began working as an actor in the US film industry . Mitchell studied drama at Los Angeles City College , among others with the choreographer Lester Horton . After graduating, he worked for the Horton company for four years, where he met Bella Lewitzky . Mitchell went to New York City in 1944 with the newly founded dance group von Horton , but the company failed economically. Then he got a job in the musical Oklahoma! by Agnes de Mille . Other roles in collaboration with the choreographer Agnes de Mille followed: Broadway musicals Bloomer Girl , 1944, Brigadoon , 1947, and Paint Your Wagon , 1951. In the 1950s and 1960s Mitchell was active as a dancer in various other stage plays:

Mitchell also worked with Gower Champion , Eugene Loring and Jerome Robbins :

In the 1970s, Mitchell became President of the Board of Directors of the Dancer Foundation . Mitchell was best known for his role as villain Palmer Cortlandt in the American television series All My Children , in which he starred from 1979 to 2009.

Mitchell died on January 22, 2010. His longtime partner was Albert Wolsky .

Filmography (selection)

Prizes and awards (selection)

literature

  • Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner, "Mitchell, James", Biographical Dictionary of Dance , New York: Schirmer Books, 1982, p. 621
  • Carol Easton, No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille , New York: Little, Brown, & Co., 1996. ISBN 0-316-19970-2 .
  • Rose Eichenbaum, "James Mitchell," The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers , Ed. Aron Hirt-Manheimer. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008, pp. 212-18, ISBN 0-8195-6880-5 .
  • John Anthony Gilvey, Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical , New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005, ISBN 0-312-33776-0 . (For Mitchell's performance in Carnival!)
  • Thomas S. Hischak, "Mitchell, James." The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia , Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, pp. 184-85, ISBN 0-313-34140-0 .
  • Greg Lawrence, Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins , New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-399-14652-0 .
  • "Mitchell, James", Contemporary Theater, Film & Television, Monica M. O'Donnell, First Edition, Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, p. 375.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Advocate: All My Children Star James Mitchell Dead at 89 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.advocate.com
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , California