James Mitchell (actor)

James Mitchell
James Mitchell in Stars in My Crown (1950)
Born	(1920-02-29)February 29, 1920 Sacramento, California, U.S.
Died	January 22, 2010(2010-01-22) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Jim Mitchell
Occupations	Actor dancer
Years active	1940–2010
Partner	Albert Wolsky (1971–2010; Mitchell's death)

James Mitchell (February 29, 1920 – January 22, 2010) was an American actor and dancer.^[1] Although he is best known to television audiences as Palmer Cortlandt on the soap opera All My Children (1979–2010), theatre and dance historians remember him as one of Agnes de Mille's leading dancers. Mitchell's skill at combining dance and acting was considered something of a novelty; in 1959, the critic Olga Maynard singled him out as "an important example of the new dancer-actor-singer in American ballet", pointing to his interpretive abilities and "masculine" technique.^[2]