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, actor and candidate for Congress from the 24th district, California.

Excerpt: In a career that spans more than 30 years, he has done some 60 films including "Tombstone" in 1994, where he shared screen credit with his father, who served as the film’s narrator.
You would think that an actor with such an ingrained bad boy image as Robert Mitchum would have leaned far to the left, but his son dispels any misconceptions.
“Dad did campaign stuff for Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and H. W. Bush. He was all about personal freedom and responsibility,” he says.