Political Involvement
Mitchum was the Republican nominee in the 1998 general election for the California State Assembly in the 35th District, which included portions of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. He lost the election to Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson.
In 2012, he declared his intention to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in Congressional District 24.
Mitchum says his career in Hollywood was adversely affected by the fact he was politically conservative and a friend and frequent co-actor of John Wayne, another conservative actor and icon. He was forced to pursue a career in Europe in later years because of this alleged bias.
In 1971 Mitchum won Photoplay's Gold Medal Award and was picked by Box Office magazine as one of the top five stars of the future along with Ryan O'Neal. But everything suddenly came to a screeching halt after that major role in Wayne's Big Jake.“I went 11 months without one interview," Mitchum recalls--a time when the film industry was buzzing with projects. Finally, the casting director on the comedy Steelyard Blues gave him the heads up. “You worked with John Wayne, I can’t even interview you,” he told Mitchum. —interview with Chris Mitchum, March 31, 2012, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/30/bh-interview-chris-mitchum
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