James (Jim) Mitchum, a film and television actor and son of Robert Mitchum who appeared in over 35 titles between 1949 and 1994, died on Sept. 20 at his home in Skull Valley, Ariz. He was 84.
Born in 1941, Mitchum grew up in Los Angeles, where the young family is said to have lived in a converted chicken coop behind his grandmother’s West Hollywood bungalow before his father became successful enough to rent a house nearby. When Jim was born, his family recounted that Robert Mitchum was appearing as a Russian peasant in a small theater production and rushed to the hospital in full make-up, where he paced
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