Thomas Mitchell
Gender: Male
Born: 11th July 1892
Died: 17th December 1962
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Tales of Tomorrow, O. Henry Playhouse, Mayor of the Town, Glencannon
Movies: High Noon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Pocketful of Miracles, The Dark Mirror, The Outlaw, Wilson, Bataan, The Big Wheel, The Fighting Sullivans, Immortal Sergeant, When You're in Love, Joan of Paris, Moontide, Out of the Fog, Dark Waters, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Angels Over Broadway, The Long Voyage Home, Swiss Family Robinson, Alias Nick Beal, The Keys of the Kingdom, Secret of the Incas, The Hurricane, Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, The Black Swan, Adventure, Destry, Three Wise Fools, Lost Horizon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Our Town, Make Way for Tomorrow, Only Angels Have Wings, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, Buffalo Bill, By Love Possessed, Man of the People, High Barbaree, I Promise to Pay
Thomas Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life. Mitchell was the first person to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award. Nominated twice for an Oscar, first for The Hurricane (1938), he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Stagecoach (1939); later, he would be nominated three times for an Emmy. He was nominated twice, in 1952 and 1953, for his role in the medical drama The Doctor, winning the Lead Actor Drama award in 1953. Nominated again in 1955, for an appearance on a weekly anthology series, he did not win. Mitchell won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical, in 1953, for his role as Dr Downer in the musical comedy Hazel Flagg, based on the 1937 Paramount comedy film Nothing Sacred, rounding out the Triple Crown of acting awards.
Mitchell was born to Irish immigrants in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He came from a family of journalists and civic leaders. Both his father and brother were newspaper reporters (his
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