The Nineteen Seventies and ’80s have been a hectic duration for persona actor Cameron Mitchell, however he discovered time to make 4 appearances on episodes of “Fantasy Island.” He seemed as a resident of Fantasy Island on the second one pilot movie, “Go back to Fantasy Island,” in 1978, and later made 3 appearances at the collection, together with Season 5’s “The Satan and Mr. Roarke/Ziegfield Ladies/Child Corey Rides Once more,” which forged him in a well-recognized position: an Outdated West lawman.
Mitchell rose to status on Broadway in “Dying of a Salesman” and studio A-pictures like “How to Marry a Millionaire” throughout the Fifties. He was once later a staple of movie and TV Westerns right through his occupation, together with the long-running “Prime Chaparral’ collection from 1967 to 1971. Monetary troubles pressured Mitchell to paintings nearly forever within the Nineteen Seventies; in 1979, the yr he seemed in Season 3’s “The Chain Gang/The Boss,” Mitchell was once additionally featured on “Hawaii 5-O,” the forgotten TV collection “Matt and Jenny,” an Americanized model of an Italian horror movie (“Island of the Fishmen”), an Spanish superhero delusion (“Supersonic Guy”), and two Stateside chillers (“The Silent Scream” and “The Demon”).
That blend of low-budget drive-in fare and TV appearances summed up Mitchell’s performing occupation till 1994, when he died of lung most cancers on the age of 75. Alternatively, pictures of him filmed between 1970 and 1974 was once later integrated within the 2018 unencumber of Orson Welles’ long-gestating ultimate characteristic, “The Different Facet of the Wind.”
