Thomas Mitchell Movies

Want to know the best Thomas Mitchell movies?  How about the worst Thomas Mitchell movies?  Curious about Thomas Mitchell box office grosses or which Thomas Mitchell movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Thomas Mitchell movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.

Thomas Mitchell (1892-1962) was an Oscar® winning American actor.   His IMDb page shows 111 acting credits from 1923-1961.  In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks 57 of his movies in 6 different sortable columns.  Television roles, his one silent and his one uncredited role were not included in the rankings.

Drivel Part of the Page:  In our imaginary UMR Classic Movie  Character Actors Hall of Fame, Thomas Mitchell would be a  First Ballot Hall of Famer.  Joining the likes of Lionel Barrymore, Peter Lorre, Donald Crisp, Vincent Price,  Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan and Sydney Greenstreet.  Future inductees (no UMR pages yet) include Charles Bickford, Charles Coburn and Ward Bond.

Thomas Mitchell in 1939’s Gone With The Wind

Thomas Mitchell Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Thomas Mitchell Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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  • Sort Thomas Mitchell movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Thomas Mitchell movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Thomas Mitchell movie won.
  • Sort Thomas Mitchell movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Thomas Mitchell and James Stewart in 1946’s It’s A Wonderful Life

Possibly Interesting Facts About Thomas Mitchell

1.  Thomas John Mitchell was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1892.  The youngest of seven children born to Irish immigrants who settled in New Jersey, his father James Mitchell, worked in the newspaper industry and died when Thomas was a young boy; his mother’s name was Mary.

2.  Thomas Mitchell’s nephew, James P. Mitchell, later served as Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of Labor.

3.  Thomas Mitchell was a close friend of John Barrymore and became part of his Hollywood entourage of drinkers and raconteurs, which also included Charles MacArthur, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Roland Young and Anthony Quinn.

4.  When Thomas Mitchell won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for “Hazel Flagg”, a musical version of the film Nothing Sacred, he became the first performer to claim the Triple Crown of Acting awards: Tony, Emmy (as TV’s Best Actor of 1953) and Oscar®.

5.  Thomas Mitchell won the Best Supporting  Actor Oscar® for his role in 1939’s Stagecoach.  He was nominated one other time……1937’s The Hurricane.

6. Thomas Mitchell was an avid collector of fine art, which included a Rembrandt panel acquired in 1940 from a Polish prince.

7. Thomas Mitchell appeared in nine Oscar® Best Picture nominees: Lost Horizon (1937), Stagecoach (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), Our Town (1940), The Long Voyage Home (1940), Wilson (1944), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and High Noon (1952), with Gone with the Wind the only winner.

8.  Thomas Mitchell was married three times and had two children.

9.  1939, what a year for Thomas Mitchell!  In 1939, in addition to appearing in three movies nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Picture, he appeared in two other films that received nominations in other categories: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and Only Angels Have Wings (1939).

10. Check out Thomas Mitchell’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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  2. Added Steve’s Thomas Mitchell YouTube Video to this page. Our thoughts found on his channel…found below.

    Gotta love Thomas Mitchell. I just saw him in #37 The Secret of the Incas….with some guy named Chuck Helton. Good video. I have seen 18 of the ones listed…seems I should have seen more. Favorites include #14 Keys to the Kingdom, #12 The Black Swan, #8 Only Angels Have Wings and #2 It’s A Wonderful Life. Voted up and shared

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    1. Hi Bruce, I was raiding your index page for subjects and spotted Mitchell, busy actor. Your tally 18 of the 37 on the video, I’ve seen 16 and Flora out in front with 27.

      Thanks as always for the comment, vote and share, much appreciated.

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  3. I have already mentioned in Part 2 Steve’s wonderful overall set of posters/stills for GWTW and here is my personal pick of the remaining classy STILLS in the video.

    1/Adventure
    2/Silver River
    3/Destry. I had forgotten Thomas was in that one
    4/Buffalo Bill
    5.Angels over Broadway
    6/Immortal Sgt
    7/Bataan – which seems like a studio pose with the Cowboy of the Century
    8/The Hurricane
    9/Tales of Manchester
    10/Keys of the Kingdom – Greg’s 2nd movie and first TOP-BILLED starring role
    11/two for The Black Swan – normally suave George does not suit that scraggly beard!
    12/Long Voyage Home – call me biased but I always welcome a Duke photo
    13/Only Angels have Wings
    14/The Hunchback
    15/Lost Horizon – splendid offering
    16/Mr Smith Goes to Washington
    17/the Stagecoach cast assembly publicity photo– Ford was fond of photographing those types of gatherings!
    18/It’s a Wonderful Life
    19/Alias Nick Beale. Although Ray Milland had the title role and Mitchell was billed 3rd [and not with even equal lettering to Milland’s name] reviewers have commented that Mitchell unusually actually had the main role. I may have seen it but can’t remember.

    NOTE: A relatively large numbers of STILLS did not include Thomas – eg Destry. They were nevertheless excellent and I have listed some of them above as being among my own faves; but I couldn’t help wondering if Steve had difficulty in locating sufficient suitable stills involving Thomas. A standout offering was the beautiful coloured one of him with Vivien in GWTW – top marks for that one; and I liked WH’s gorgeous miniature solo above of Thomas in that movie

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  5. Firstly I thought the run of posters/stills from GWTW was sensational. Gable’s agent on hearing Crawford was after the part of Scarlett “I hope my boy’s not going to have top-billing problems!” Studio executive reply “Clark will have NO billing problems.” Other great POSTERS in Steve’s Mitchell video

    1/Secret of the Incas – a forgotten Chuck heyday entertainer.
    2/first one for The Outlaw
    3/Dark Waters
    4/Pocketful of Miracles-Charley Bill on the way out in terms of stardom. Clashes between him and Bette on set as he wanted to demote Davis by installing his mistress in Bette’s prestige dressing room and demanding she move down one. She refused.
    5/two for Destry – very original
    6/two for Only Angels have Wings
    7/first one for Swiss Family Robinson
    8/This Above All – sounds like something WH would say about one of Joel’s critiques
    9/Out of The Fog
    10/The Hurricane – Jon Hall appeared recently in a rerun of an old Perry Mason episode.
    11/Theodora Goes Wild – awful stuff for my money!
    12/first one for The Black Swan. “One day you will call me Jamie Boy!” – swashbuckler Power to spitfire O’Hara
    13/Long Voyage Home – a forgotten routine Duke item of yesteryear
    14/Make Way for Tomorrow
    15.Angles over Broadway
    16/2 absolute stunners for Hunchback – how do you keep coming up with such great stuff Steve?
    17/entire set for Lost Horizon
    18/two very original ones for High Noon
    19/foreign language one for Stagecoach.
    20/Second one for It’s a Wonderful Life
    21/While the City Sleeps – one of my all time fave movies; and the two posters which I had never before seen [except maybe once on Lensman] are actually the best posters that I have come across to date for that movie. Sheer joy to view as posters

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