Trivia

Was in no way trained as a singer, but was made to sing briefly in Cantando bajo la lluvia (1952).

An extremely prolific theatrical actor, he appeared on Broadway from 1925-1948, notably in one of its most important flops, "Penny Arcade", which led to its stars James Cagney and Joan Blondell being signed by Warner Brothers.

He has five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Almas en la hoguera (1949), Winchester 73 (1950), El día que paralizaron la Tierra (1951), Cantando bajo la lluvia (1952) and El precio de un hombre (1953).

Daughters Mary Ellis and Margaret.

For his work in Mis seis presidiarios (1952), he was the first of only 7 actors to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 6 are, in chronological order: Earl Holliman in El farsante (1956), Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur (1959), Oskar Werner in Alto espionaje (1965), Richard Attenborough, El cañonero del Yangtzé (1966) and El fabuloso Doctor Doolittle (1967), Richard Benjamin in La pareja chiflada (1975) and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Animales nocturnos (2016).

Father: Millard Fillmore Mitchell; Mother: Elizabeth Bessie Anna Fleming.