James Mitchell was an American actor and dancer. 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.
James Mitchell in Stars in My Crown (1950)
James Mitchell and Anne Bancroft in The Turning Point (1977)
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.
Ruth Warrick as Phoebe Tyler
The new cast of Prospect Park's All My Children revival. (l-r) Heather Roop, Ray MacDonnell, Jordi Vilasuso, Francesca James, Darnell Williams, Eric Nelsen, Debbi Morgan, Lindsay Hartley, Cady McClain, Jill Larson, Julia Barr, Vincent Irizarry, Denyse Tontz, David Canary, Sal Stowers, Robert Scott Wilson, Thorsten Kaye, Eden Riegel, Jordan Lane Price, and Ryan Bittle.