George Mitchell (actor)

George Mitchell
George Mitchell in TV's Bonanza, episode "The Gunmen" (1960)
Born	(1905-02-21)February 21, 1905 Larchmont, New York, U.S.
Died	January 18, 1972(1972-01-18) (aged 66) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1935–1971
Spouse	Katherine Squire (m. 1940)

George Mitchell (February 21, 1905 – January 18, 1972) was an American actor who performed from 1935 through 1971 in film, television, and on

Mitchell was born February 21, 1905, in Larchmont in Westchester County in New York. He married his first wife, Mary Alice Shroyer (m.Dec 1927-div.1937) He fathered four children with Mary A. Shroyer. Mary (Mitchell) Oliver(deceased), Judith (Mitchell)Glasel (1930-present), George Mitchell III (deceased), and Eve (Mitchell) Joice(1936-present).He decided to become an actor after marrying actress Katherine Squire.^[1]

Mitchell became a bit typecast in Hollywood, usually playing loathsome characters who operated outside of the law. On television, Mitchell's credits include acting in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called "Wally the Beard" (original air date March 1, 1965) with co-stars Larry Blyden and Kathie Brown, in which he played a knowledgeable and cranky seller of boats, and "Forty Detectives Later" (airing April 24, 1960), in which he portrayed the client of a private detective (James Franciscus) whom he hires to track the supposed murderer (Jack Weston) of his wife. On Broadway, 1969–70, he portrayed Chief Joseph in the play Indians, the source of Robert Altman's film Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson.

George Mitchell acted in several films and television episodes with his wife,

George Mitchell's major acting credits include the film The Andromeda Strain (1971), directed by Robert Wise, co-starring Arthur Hill, and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. He played the comic relief as cranky old town drunk who, along with an infant, were among the only survivors of exposure to the deadly Andromeda Strain.

Mitchell had roles on television in shows ranging from the 1950s dramas of the Golden Age of Television (such as

He was in the 1956 NBC adventure/musical The Adventures of Marco Polo, and several episodes of both

He even tried comedy (Hazel, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Bewitched), medical (Ben Casey), and science-fiction-adventure shows (Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea). He was also on Daktari, Lassie, Run for Your Life, and the 1961 NBC series, The Americans, a dramatization of family divisions in the American Civil War.

On the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, he originated the role of Matthew Morgan (later assumed by actor Thayer David).

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) (Season 5 Episode 28: "Forty Detectives Later") as Munro Dean
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  (1962) (Season 1 Episode 9: "The Black Curtain") as Druggist
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  (1962) (Season 1 Episode 24: "The Star Juror") as Judge Higgins
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  (1965) (Season 3 Episode 19: "Wally the Beard") as Keefer

In 1940, he married Katherine Squire, with whom he often worked on stage, in film, and on television. He died on January 18, 1972, aged 66, of undisclosed causes, in Washington, D.C. Squire died in 1995.^{[citation needed]}