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Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell was one of the great American character actors, whose credits read like a list of the greatest American films of the 20th century: Lost Horizon (1937); Stagecoach (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and High Noon (1952). His portrayals are so diverse and convincing that most people don't even realize that one actor could have played them all. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar i

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Filmography

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Himself (archive footage)

Hollywood My Home Town

1965

By Love Possessed

1961
as Noah Tuttle

Pocketful of Miracles

1961
as Judge Henry G. Blake

Too Young to Love

1960
as Judge Bentley

While the City Sleeps

1956
as John Day Griffith (Sentinel managing editor)

The Miracle on 34th Street

1955
as Kris Kringle

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1955
as 'Pap' Finn

Destry

1954
as Reginald T. 'Rags' Barnaby

Secret of the Incas

1954
as Ed Morgan

High Noon

1952
as Mayor Jonas Henderson

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1952
as Hank Morgan

Journey into Light

1951
as Gandy

Alias Nick Beal

1949
as Joseph Foster

The Big Wheel

1949
as Arthur 'Red' Stanley

Silver River

1948
as John Plato Beck

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

1947
as Gill MacBean

High Barbaree

1947
as Capt. Thad Vail

Three Wise Fools

1946
as Terence Alaysius O'Davern

It's a Wonderful Life

1946
as Uncle Billy

The Dark Mirror

1946
as Lt. Stevenson

Adventure

1945
as Mudgin

Captain Eddie

1945
as Ike Howard

Dark Waters

1944
as Mr. Sydney

Wilson

1944
as Joseph Tumulty

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944
as Willie Tulloch

The Fighting Sullivans

1944
as Mr. Thomas F. Sullivan

Bataan

1943
as Cpl. Jake Feingold

The Outlaw

1943
as Pat Garrett

Buffalo Bill

1943
as Ned Buntline

Immortal Sergeant

1943
as Sergeant Kelly

Flesh and Fantasy

1943
as Septimus Podgers (Episode 2)

The Black Swan

1942
as Tommy Blue

Moontide

1942
as Tiny

This Above All

1942
as "Monty" Montague

Joan of Paris

1942
as Father Antoine

Song of the Islands

1942
as Dennis O'Brien

Tales of Manhattan

1942
as John Halloway

Out of the Fog

1941
as Jonah Goodwin

Swiss Family Robinson

1940
as William Robinson

Our Town

1940
as Doc Gibbs

The Long Voyage Home

1940
as Driscoll

Angels Over Broadway

1940
as Gene Gibbons

Three Cheers for the Irish

1940
as Peter Casey

Gone with the Wind

1939
as Gerald O'Hara

Only Angels Have Wings

1939
as Kid Dabb

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939
as Diz Moore

Stagecoach

1939
as Doc Josiah Boone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939
as Clopin

Trade Winds

1938
as Commissioner Blackton

Love, Honor and Behave

1938
as Dan Painter

Make Way for Tomorrow

1937
as George Cooper

Lost Horizon

1937
as Henry Barnard

The Hurricane

1937
as Dr. Kersaint

Man Of The People

1937
as William J. Grady

When You're in Love

1937
as Hank Miller

Adventure In Manhattan

1936
as Phil Bane

Theodora Goes Wild

1936
as Jed Waterbury

Adventure In Manhattan

1936
as Mark Gibbs

Writer

Movie Casanova Brown 1944
Movie Life Begins with Love 1937
Movie All of Me 1934

Guest Star

Episode Coroner
Black Dog 		2019
Episode 21 Jump Street
Bad Day at BlackBurn 		1991
Episode Stagecoach West
Image of a Man 		1961
Episode Adventures in Paradise
A Penny a Day 		1961
Episode Adventures in Paradise
Once Around the Circuit 		1960
Episode The Islanders
Deadly Tomorrow 		1960
Episode Zane Grey Theater
The Loner 		1959
Episode Zane Grey Theater
A Handful Of Ashes 		1958
Episode Telephone Time
The Gadfly 		1957
Episode Telephone Time
Grandpa Changes the World 		1956
Episode Screen Director's Playhouse
The Final Tribute 		1955
Episode The Name's the Same
Thomas Mitchell 		1954
Episode Suspense
North of Shanghai 		1952