Mitchell Lewis

Highest Rated: 100% Lili (1953)

Lowest Rated: 25% Tenderloin (1928)

Birthday: Jun 26, 1880

Birthplace: Not Available

Husky actor Mitchell Lewis attended Annapolis and Syracus University before making his stage debut in 1902. Lewis went on tour with such theatrical heavyweights as William Collier, Dustin Farnum and Alla Nazimova. He made his film bow in 1914 at the old Thanhouser Company. Specializing in ethnic roles, Lewis spent both the silent and talkie era playing menacing gypsies (The Cuckoos, The Bohemina Girl), Arab potentates (he was horse-loving Sheik Iderim in the 1926 version of Ben-Hur), East Indian warriors and Native American chiefs. He even donned blackface to portray "Tambo" in Al Jolson's Big Boy (1930). In 1937, Lewis was signed to an MGM lifetime contract, which assured him steady if not always stellar work for the next eighteen years. One of his many MGM bit-part assignments was the green-skinned Winkie Captain ("You've killed her! She's dead! Long live Dorothy!") in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Active throughout his career in charitable pursuits, Mitchell Lewis served on the original board of the Motion Picture Relief Fund.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Trial	Jury Foreman	—	1955
92%	Kiss Me Kate	Stage Doorman	—	1953
No Score Yet	All the Brothers Were Valiant	Cook	—	1953
No Score Yet	Torch Song	Bill the Doorman	—	1953
60%	The Sun Shines Bright	Sheriff Andy Redcliffe	—	1953
100%	Lili	Concessionaire	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Man with a Cloak	Waiter	—	1952
No Score Yet	Scaramouche	Major Domo	—	1952
No Score Yet	Mr. Imperium	Old Watchman	—	1951
67%	Border Incident	Braceros	—	1949
89%	The Stratton Story	Conductor	—	1949
95%	Take Me Out to the Ball Game	Fisherman	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Kissing Bandit	Fernando	—	1948
60%	Julia Misbehaves	Train Official	—	1948
No Score Yet	Desire Me	Old Man	—	1947
83%	It Happened in Brooklyn	Printer	—	1947
No Score Yet	Courage of Lassie	Farmer Elson	—	1946
100%	The Harvey Girls	Sandy	—	1946
71%	The Thin Man Goes Home	Man	—	1945
No Score Yet	Kismet	Sheik	—	1944
No Score Yet	Du Barry Was a Lady	Renel	—	1943
No Score Yet	Cairo	Ludwig	—	1942
No Score Yet	I Married an Angel	Porter	—	1942
No Score Yet	Rio Rita	Julio	—	1942
No Score Yet	Billy the Kid	Bart Hodges	—	1941
91%	Meet John Doe	Bennett	—	1941
89%	Go West	Halfbreed	—	1940
75%	Strange Cargo	Guard	—	1940
98%	The Wizard of Oz	Head Winkie	$3.9M	1939
40%	Idiot's Delight	Indian	—	1939
No Score Yet	Let Freedom Ring	Joe	—	1939
No Score Yet	Mysterious Mr. Moto	Nola	—	1938
100%	Three Comrades	Boris	—	1938
No Score Yet	Arsene Lupin Returns	Detective	—	1938
No Score Yet	Double Wedding	Orator	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Plainclothesman	—	1937
No Score Yet	Waikiki Wedding	Koalani	—	1937
No Score Yet	Dancing Pirate	Pirate Chief	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Bohemian Girl	Salinas	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Man in Office	—	1935
93%	A Tale of Two Cities	Ernest DeFarge	—	1935
86%	The Count of Monte Cristo	Yampa	—	1934
No Score Yet	Ann Vickers	Capt. Waldo Dringwell	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Secret of Madame Blanche	Duval	—	1933
83%	Kongo	Hogan	—	1932
No Score Yet	New Morals for Old	Bodvin, French Artist	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Squaw Man (The White Man)	Tabywanna	—	1931
No Score Yet	Never the Twain Shall Meet	Capt. Larrieau	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Cuckoos	Julius	—	1930
No Score Yet	Mammy	Tambo	—	1930
No Score Yet	Beau Bandit	Colosso	—	1930
No Score Yet	Absinthe	Col. Hanby	—	1929
No Score Yet	The Black Watch	Mohammed Khan	—	1929
No Score Yet	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Capt. Alvarado	—	1929
No Score Yet	The Leatherneck	Capt. Brand	—	1929
100%	The Docks of New York	Third Engineer	—	1928
No Score Yet	Linda	Stillwater	—	1928
25%	Tenderloin	The Professor	—	1928
No Score Yet	The Way of the Strong	Handsome Williams	—	1928
60%	Beau Sabreur	Suleiman the Strong	—	1928
No Score Yet	Tell It to the Marines	Native	—	1926
96%	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Sheik Ilderim	—	1926
100%	Old Ironsides	Pirate Chief	—	1926
No Score Yet	Mystic	Poppa Zazarack	—	1925
No Score Yet	The Red Lily	D'Agut	—	1924
55%	Salome	Herod	—	1923
No Score Yet	At the End of the World	Donald MacGregor	—	1921
100%	The Bar Sinister	Actor	—	1917

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