Mort Mills

• Born: Jan 11, 1919
• Died: Jun 06, 1993
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '50s-'60s
• Major Genres: Western, Crime
• Career Highlights: Bonanza: Joe Cartwright, Detective, Bonanza: The Vendetta
• First Major Screen Credit: Bonanza: The Vendetta (1959)

Biography

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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