Jim Mitchum, who starred alongside his father, Oscar-nominated actor Robert Mitchum, in the 1958 moonshine drama Thunder Road while appearing in about three dozen films and TV shows during his career, has died. He was 84.

Mitchum died Sept. 20 at his ranch home in Skull Valley, Arizona, after a long illness, a family spokesperson announced.

The first-born son of Robert Mitchum and Dorothy Spence Mitchum , Jim Mitchum appeared in the war films The Victors (1963), starring George Peppard, Albert Finney and George Hamilton; the Otto Preminger-directed In Harm’s Way (1965), starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas ; and Ambush Bay (1966), starring Hugh O’Brian and Mickey Rooney .

Jim Mitchum, who starred alongside his father, Oscar-nominated actor Robert Mitchum, in the 1958

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