Cameron Mitchell Net Worth, Height, Age & Personal Info Wiki

In 1939, Mitchell decided to make his first Broadway appearance in a minor role in Jeremiah. During the same time, Cam became a page at NBC Radio City, which gave him a minor role in a production of The Taming of the Shrew in 1940. Mitchell returned to Broadway in 1941 in The Trojan Women. In 1944, he provided as a bombardier with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

His film career started with being contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945 for 3 years with minimal roles in films, including They Was Expendable in 1945, which starred John Wayne and Robert Montgomery. He appeared in Cass Timberlane with Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy and The Mighty McGurk with Wallace Beery in 1947. He finished his MGM career with two films starring Clark Gable: Homecoming, also with Turner, and Command Decision, both in 1948.

Mitchell made his Broadway debut as Happy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Following its conclusion, he reprised his role in the Broadway production of Southern Exposure. Mitchell reprised his role as Happy Loman in Columbia Pictures’ 1951 film adaptation. Mitchell signed with 20th Century-Fox, where he had a prolific career as Marius in a 1952 version of Les Miserables and as a wealthy man attempting to romance a single woman in How to Marry a Millionaire. The other female leads were Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.

Mitchell played the lead in an unsold 1959 television pilot called I Am a Lawyer, but he became famous in the latter part of his career as Buck Cannon in the 1960s and 1970s NBC Western series The High Chaparral. In the syndicated adventure series The Beachcomber, he played John Lackland. Mitchell appeared in a number of Italian sword and sandal, horror, fantasy, and thriller films during the 1960s, including several directed by Mario Bava. All of his collaborations with Bava were the action film Erik the Conqueror, in which he played a Viking; Blood and Black Lace, in which he depicted the owner of a fashion house that became contagious by a series of brutal murders; and Knives of the Avenger, in which he played a knife-throwing Viking warrior. He also showed up in Westerns such as Minnesota Clay in 1964 and Rode in the Whirlwind in 1966. (4)