Trivia

His longtime partner was costume designer Albert Wolsky.

His best-known role on film was in Agnes de Mille's spectacular dream sequence as 'Dream Curly' in the 1955 musical classic Oklahoma! (1955) He worked in tandem with the famed choreographer quite frequently.

In his early career, he performed with the American Ballet Theatre.

In 1947, his performance in the original Broadway production of "Brigadoon" earned him a Walter Donaldson Award (the predecessor of the "Tony" Award) as Best Dancer, as well as a Theatre World Award.

In 1923, his mother, Edith, left his father and returned to England with Mitchell's brother and sister; she and Mitchell had no further contact. Unable to run a farm while single-handedly raising his remaining son, Mitchell's father fostered him out for several years to vaudevillians Gene and Katherine King.

First appeared on stage as part of his foster parents' vaudeville act.

He taught movement for actors at the American Laboratory Theatre, 1966-1967; movement for actors and directors at the Yale School of Drama, 1974, and movement for actors and directors at the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, 1976.

Has taught movement for actors to theater arts students at Yale University.

After he put up his dancing shoes, he turned to TV and found a nice niche for himself in soaps -- notably as the scheming old tycoon Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children (1970) playing the role since 1979.

The Harlem Renaissance artist Richmond Barthe (1901-1989) sculpted and exhibited a bust of Mitchell in 1947.

Received a degree in drama from Los Angeles City College.

Danced for Lester Horton, the Agnes de Mille Dance Theater and the American Ballet Theater.

Close associations in dance were with Gower Champion, Eugene Loring (with whom he also trained), and Jerome Robbins.

Briefly co-owned an antiques shop called "Country Imports" in the late 1950s.

Retired. (October 2009)

Strangely cast, and although against type, was effective as the Mexican laborer Juan Garcia in the 1940's movie "Border Incident.".