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Mort Mills

Mort Mills

Best described as a young George Kennedy type (though he and Kennedy were contemporaries), American actor Mort Mills spent three decades playing omniprescent and menacing types. He started out in films in the early '50s, showing up briefly in such productions as Affair in Trinidad (1952) and Farmer Takes a Wife (1955). He also seemed to be lurking in the background, taking in the information at hand and waiting to saunter over and pounce upon someone smaller than himself (which was just about everyone). Mills' character straddled both sides of the law: He was a friendly frontier sheriff in the 1958 syndicated TV western Man without a Gun and a less friendly police lieutenant on the 1960 network adventure weekly Dante; conversely, he was vicious western gunslinger Trigger Mortis in the 1965 Three Stooges feature The Outlaws is Coming. Mort Mills' most indelible screen moments occured in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), wherein he portrayed the suspicious highway patrolman who almost catches embezzler Janet Leigh; had he succeeded, she would have spent the night in the pokey rather than the Bates Motel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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Mort Mills Trivia

When was Mort Mills born?
Mort Mills date of birth: January 11, 1919

Who did Mort Mills portray in The Outlaws Is Coming?
Mort Mills was Trigger Mortis in The Outlaws Is Coming

What role did Mort Mills portray in Soldier Blue?
Mort Mills played Sgt. O'Hearn in Soldier Blue

What role did Mort Mills play in Touch of Evil?
Mort Mills played Schwartz in Touch of Evil

What role did Mort Mills play in Torn Curtain?
Mort Mills played Farmer in Torn Curtain

Who did Mort Mills play in Psycho?
Mort Mills was Highway Patrolman in Psycho

What role did Mort Mills portray in Affair in Trinidad?
Mort Mills played Martin in Affair in Trinidad

What role did Mort Mills play in To Hell and Back?
Mort Mills played Soldier in To Hell and Back

Who did Mort Mills portray in The Harder They Fall?
Mort Mills was Reporter in The Harder They Fall


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