Cameron Mitchell

CAMERON MITCHELL d1994. American actor who began acting on Broadway in the late 1930s before signing a contract with MGM and appearing in such films as Cass Timberlane (1945) and Homecoming (1948). He subsequently originated the role of Happy Loman in the Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949). A role he reprised in the 1951 film adaptation. With 20th Century Fox, he appeared in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Throughout the 1960s, he appeared in spaghetti Westerns and Italian films. Once he made the transition, he was starring as Uncle Buck Cannon on the Western series, The High Chaparral (1967-1971)