Millard Kaufman Mr. Magoo. He followed this up in 1950 with another UPA film, "Punchy de Leon", featuring The Fox and The Crow. In 1950, Kaufman lent his name to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted after investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee, for the screenplay for "Gun Crazy". In 1953, he received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for "Take the High Ground!". In 1955, he received another nomination for his screenplay for "Bad Day at Black Rock". Although he usually worked as a writer, he also directed "Convicts 4" (1962) and served as associate producer for "Raintree
Millard Mitchell Billy Wilder's "A Foreign Affair" (1948), as Gregory Peck's commanding officer in the war drama "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949), and as the fictional movie mogul R. F. Simpson in the musical comedy "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). Mitchell also appeared frequently on Broadway, often playing a fast-talking Broadway character. He played the starring role in "The Great Campaign" (1947). Mitchell died at the age of fifty from lung cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Millard Mitchell Millard Mitchell (August 14, 1903 – October 13, 1953) was an American character actor whose credits include roughly thirty feature films and