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.
Briefly co-owned an antiques shop called "Country Imports" in the late 1950s.
Close associations in dance were with Gower Champion, Eugene Loring (with whom he also trained), and Jerome Robbins.
Danced for Lester Horton, the Agnes De Mille Dance Theater and the American Ballet Theater.
First appeared on stage as part of his foster parents' vaudeville act.
Has brown eyes.
Has taught movement for actors to theater arts students at Yale University.
He taught movement for actors at the American Labratory Theatre, 1966-67; movement for actors and directors at the Yale School of Drama, 1974, and movement for actors and directors at the Juilliard School of Drama, 1976.
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.
His longtime partner was costume designer Albert Wolsky.
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.
In 1947, his performance in the original Broadway production of "Brigadoon" earned him a Donaldson Award (the predecessor of the Tony Award) as Best Dancer, as well as a Theatre World Award.
In his early career, he performed with the American Ballet Theatre.
Received a degree in drama from Los Angeles City College.
The Harlem Renaissance artist Richmond Barthe (1901-1989) sculpted and exhibited a bust of Mitchell in 1947.