Thomas Mitchell
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Born: July 10, 1892
Place of Birth: Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Known For
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
It's a Wonderful Life
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
The Islanders
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
High Noon
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Vesser
as Lear
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Judge Henry G. Blake
as Noah Tuttle
as Tom Todd
as Judge Bentley
as Grover Cleveland
as Hubert Willis
as Self
as Mayor Dick Williston
as Emperor
as O. Henry
as Ben Cary
as Cason Thomas
as Nick Finn
as Mr. Carson
as John Day Griffith
as Kris Kringle
as Dr. Joseph H. Walton
as Kris Kringle
as 'Pap' Finn
as Reginald T. 'Rags' Barnaby
as Old Man Finn
as Ed Morgan
as Blumenau
as Mayor Thomas Russell
as Fred Tupple
as Silas Lapham
as Mender McClure
as Silas Burton
as Elmo
as Mayor Jonas Henderson
as William Oliver Gant
as Truman Winters
as Sam Hawkins
as Carl Smith
as Gandy
as Arthur 'Red' Stanley
as Joseph Foster
as Dr. Paul Morgan
as Henry Brown
as William Mallory
as Jack Guzzow
as Hank Morgan
as John Plato Beck
as Gill MacBean
as Capt. Thad Vail
as Self
as Uncle Billy
as Lt. Stevenson
as Terence Alaysius O'Davern
as Mudgin
as Warden Michael Howland
as Ike Howard
as Willie Tulloch
as Mr. Sydney
as Joseph Tumulty
as Ned Buntline
as Mr. Thomas F. Sullivan
as Septimus Podgers (segment 2)
as Cpl. Jake Feingold
as Sergeant Kelly
as Pat Garrett
as Self
as Tommy Blue
as John Halloway
as Tiny
as "Monty" Montague
as Dennis O'Brien
as Father Antoine
as Jonah Goodwin
as Prof. Henry Todhunter
as Driscoll
as Gene Gibbons
as Doc Gibbs
as Peter Casey
as William Robinson
as Gerald O'Hara
as Diz Moore
as Clopin
as Kid Dabb
as Doc Josiah Boone
as Commissioner Blackton
as Dan Painter
as Dr. Kersaint
as George Cooper
as District Attorney J.E. Curtis
as Henry Barnard
as Hank Miller
as William J. Grady
as Jed Waterbury
as Phil Bane
as Fergus Passmore
as Bertram Rogers