Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman(March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009) was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955). He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo. Kaufman was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school). He eventually graduated from Johns Hopkins University after work as a merchant seaman. After that, he moved to New York City, taking a job as copyboy for the "New York Daily News". At some point, he married Lorraine Paisley. He enlisted in the Marines in 1942,
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