James Mitchum

James Mitchum was born on May 08, 1941 in USA. James Mitchum's big-screen debut came with Colorado Territory directed by Raoul Walsh in 1949, strarring Child (uncredited). James Mitchum is known for Two-Lane Blacktop directed by Monte Hellman, James Taylor stars as The Driver and Warren Oates as G.T.O. The upcoming new movie James Mitchum plays is Enemy which will be released on Jul 25, 1990.

James Mitchum is the oldest son of legendary actor Robert Mitchum and the spitting image of his famous father. By inheriting his dad's sexy, sleepy eyes and taciturn good looks, it was obvious from the start that Jim would lean towards an acting career with so much going for him. The comparison helped him as well as hurt him. Jim got his first taste of film-making at the age of 8 with a tiny unbilled role in the sturdy western La Fille du désert (1949) with Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo and Dorothy Malone, but made his credited debut playing his father's much younger brother in Thunder Road (1958), which became a drive-in cult favorite. He gained experience in other films made by his father including La dernière fois que j' ai vu Archie (1961). Jim's solo career would be composed of primarily westerns and war pictures, achieving a degree of stability but little distinction in the long run. Such films as Young Guns of Texas (1962), La baie du guet-apens (1966), La grande traque (1976), New-York Black-Out (1978) and Hollywood Cop (1987) would come and go. Younger brother Christopher Mitchum would follow a similarly rugged path in films. Jim was formerly married to actress Wende Wagner, who died in 1997 of cancer. They had one child.