Mitchell Lewis
Date of birth: 1880-06-25
Place of birth: Syracuse, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Mitchell Joseph Lewis
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mitchell Lewis (June 26, 1880 – August 24, 1956) was an American film actor whose career as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player encompassed both silent and sound films. He appeared in more than 175 films between 1914 and 1956. During the silent era he played supporting roles, such as Sheihk Idrim in 1925's Ben Hur, then Ernest De Farge in A Tale of Two Cities (1935) in the sound era, but his career would diminish to small uncredited roles like the Captain of the Winkie Guards in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Mitchell served as one of the original board members of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, now known as the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Movie Credits
The Docks of New York
1928-09-16
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925-12-25
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of
Meet John Doe
1941-03-14
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who
The Woman Conquers
1922-12-01
Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area
A Tale of Two Cities
1935-12-25
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
The Spoilers
1923-08-26
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Courage of Lassie
1946-11-08
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopte
Cairo
1942-08-17
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Alli
The Mine with the Iron Door
1924-10-02
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospector
Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. Sh
Madame X
1929-08-17
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen
Forgotten Sweeties
1927-04-10
Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.
We Do It Because
1942-01-24
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking han
The Bohemian Girl
1936-02-14
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
The Man with a Cloak
1951-11-27
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of
Mammy
1930-03-26
Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns ac
Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938-09-17
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933-02-03
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Rupert of Hentzau
1923-07-15
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to play the King once more. Lost adaptation of the eponymous
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914-01-02
This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its
The Cuckoos
1930-05-04
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
The Sun Shines Bright
1953-05-02
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involve
The Wizard of Oz
1939-08-15
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and
The Black Watch
1929-05-22
Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regime
The Squaw Man
1931-07-21
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezz
Ex-Plumber
1931-03-08
Ex-Plumber is a 1931 Comedy short.
The Red Lily
1924-09-08
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, t
Dancing Pirate
1936-05-22
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jona
I'll Wait for You
1941-05-16
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
The Best Man Wins
1935-01-14
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work b
The Little Girl Next Door
1923-04-28
New Morals for Old
1932-06-04
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to st
The Last Lesson
1942-12-19
A 19th century French schoolmaster gives his last lesson before the occupying Germans take over the
Girl of the Port
1930-02-02
Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the
Calibre 38
1919-02-16
Montana cattleman Austin Brandt is jilted by Rosemary, who elopes with stranger Royce Greer, but he
Son of India
1931-08-01
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
The Sea Wolf
1926-07-26
Captain "Wolf" Larsen, the absolute master of a seal schooner, is a mystic and philosopher, though h
Salomé
1923-02-15
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod
See America Thirst
1930-11-23
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Tell It to the Marines
1926-12-23
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, i
Three Weeks
1924-02-10
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
Tenderloin
1928-03-14
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships a
Tracked in the Snow Country
1925-07-13
When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.
Red Morning
1934-12-14
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Nostradamus and the Queen
1953-09-29
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predict
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956-07-12
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee
The Hawk's Nest
1928-05-27
Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen
The Eagle of the Sea
1926-10-17
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.
Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938-08-12
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
Waikiki Wedding
1937-03-23
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunte
Fatal Lady
1936-05-15
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of
Hard-Boiled Haggerty
1927-08-21
After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Hagge
Mummy's Boys
1936-10-02
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, g
Oil for the Lamps of China
1935-06-08
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural la
Three Comrades
1938-06-02
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I
Stand Up and Fight
1939-01-06
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close
Let Freedom Ring
1939-02-24
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939-11-24
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Henry Goes Arizona
1939-12-08
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Bad Little Angel
1939-10-27
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Lili
1953-03-10
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. T
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938-02-25
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i
Main Street After Dark
1945-01-12
A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.
Linda
1929-03-31
A young woman is forced by her abusive father to marry an older man even though she is in love with
Kongo
1932-10-01
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, throug
Espionage
1937-02-26
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours
Bridal Suite
1939-05-26
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Young Tom Edison
1940-03-15
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and sci
Merton of the Movies
1947-10-11
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studio
The Mystic
1925-09-26
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man cra
McKenna of the Mounted
1932-08-26
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his
On the High Seas
1922-09-17
Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocea
The Lady or the Tiger?
1942-03-28
Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of
Go West
1940-12-06
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he
Boom Town
1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov
20 Mule Team
1940-05-03
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it i
The Painted Hills
1951-05-04
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that
The World and the Flesh
1932-04-22
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brut
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931-05-16
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to a
Gallant Sons
1940-11-15
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to fin
Strange Cargo
1940-03-01
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
I Love You Again
1940-08-09
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love
Florian
1940-06-05
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by
Old Ironsides
1926-12-06
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron
The Death Ship
1928-06-01
On a stormy night at sea, a Captain and the First Mate talk about the girl that they are both in lov
Apache Trail
1942-09-01
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous A
Billy the Kid
1941-05-30
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and
Honky Tonk
1941-10-01
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his
One Stolen Night
1929-03-15
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the
Zudora
1914-11-20
Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and de
The Great American Mug
1945-10-06
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout
Beau Sabreur
1928-01-22
The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the L
Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
1949-05-07
Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a s
Beau Bandit
1930-03-02
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of
Song of Revolt
1937-05-29
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", c
The Bad One
1930-05-03
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for
Miss Nobody
1926-06-27
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a g
Rio Rita
1942-03-11
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican bord
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943-08-13
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p
Torture Money
1937-01-02
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobil
Souvenirs of Death
1948-06-19
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on t
Inflation
1942-01-01
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
Jacques of the Silver North
1919-06-09
"Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter
At the End of the World
1921-08-14
This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon ke
Gold Madness
1923-10-02
Crooked mine dealer Scotty McGee lures away gold prospector Tim Kendal's wife, Olga, who married out
Her Accidental Husband
1923-04-16
After attempting to succeed in his father-in-law’s fishing business, Gordon Gray persuades his wife,
Gold Rush Maisie
1940-07-26
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining h
Sucker List
1941-07-26
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk
The Tall Target
1951-08-17
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid
Talk About a Stranger
1952-04-18
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Lost in a Harem
1944-11-08
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic unc
The Siren Call
1922-09-17
Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
Life's Greatest Problem
1918-11-03
Big Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World
Kid Glove Killer
1942-04-17
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by
Back to God's Country
1927-10-23
Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.
Anaesthesia
1938-07-09
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
The Devil Bear
1929-02-19
A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and
The Way of the Strong
1928-06-18
A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
The Leatherneck
1929-02-24
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win
The Merry Widow
1952-09-05
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if t
Kiss Me Kate
1953-11-26
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of
Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymou
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935-07-05
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
The Green Years
1946-07-04
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a
Code of the Yukon
1918-12-01
A man fights for this life in the Canadian Northwest.
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944-12-24
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
The Immortal Blacksmith
1944-05-20
This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who
The Toast of New Orleans
1950-08-24
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman c
The Bar Sinister
1917-04-26
The Bar Sinister is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.
The Last Frontier
1926-08-16
Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his
The Sign Invisible
1918-02-18
Dr. Robert Winston loses faith in himself and his religion when his own mother dies under his scalpe
The Flower of No Man's Land
1916-06-26
Echo, the orphaned "flower of no man's land," has been raised by an Indian foster father, Kahoma. Th
King Spruce
1920-04-18
"King Spruce" is personified in John Barrett, lumber magnate of the North woods. His domineering cha
The Harvey Girls
1946-01-18
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young wo
Wild Oats Lane
1926-02-28
After leaving Sing Sing for serving time for theft, The Boy drifts into a small Pennsylvania town an