Mike Mitchell

Biography

Mike Mitchell is the pseudonym of a former (Un-named) Russian General in the Czar's White Army who escaped to America and changed his identity after 1923. Like other former Russians who fled the Communist Government in Russia, many went to London, England, Paris France and in the United States, New York and Los Angeles. While in Los Angele Mitchell, like others of his background, acted as supervisors at the film studios on Russian lore and military history, as related to costuming, hair and make-up, settings and set decoration and other military knowledge. In the MGM 1924 'His Hour' Mitchell was acting as a 'Russian officer', wearing full Russian regalia, with John Gilbert and Aileen Pringle. Not much is known about Mitchell after 1924.