Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum (born August 6, 1917, Bridgeport, United States; died 1997), was an American actor. Mitchum's honours include Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Donostia Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Robert Mitchum’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Mitchum’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Robert in the U.S.?
#92
US rank in 2025
~4,869,849
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Robert ranked 4th among boys and 515th among girls in 1917, the year of this birth, with 35,220 American boys and 168 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1917, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Robert apart
Robert Mitchum took the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1992, at 75.
Haaren High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1937, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.
The family line: born to Ann Harriet Gunderson and James Thomas Mitchum and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Robert Mitchum under American people of Blackfoot descent, Connecticut Republicans and Civilian Conservation Corps people.
Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Haaren High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1992) and Donostia Award (1993)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1937
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Robert is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Robert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Robert creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Robert is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Robert does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Robert's birth date. Working below.
Where Robert sits
Six lines
Robert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Robert Mitchum
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bridgeport on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Bridgeport that night
Computed for 41.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Bridgeport at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 79% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bridgeport, United States
The death is recorded at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Mitchum: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Leo · A leaning bowl
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Robert Mitchum's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Robert Mitchum was born on August 6, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Robert Mitchum's birth date, August 6, 1917, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Mitchum's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Robert Mitchum combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 10° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.2° to 1.6° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.5° to 2.0° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.5° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°26′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 5°11′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 22°57′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 1°36′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Ceres square Pluto 0.3°
- Eros square Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres square Mars 1.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.8°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
More people like Robert
Other screenwriters
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918
- Carl Foreman1914
- Alan Jay Lerner1918
- Adolph Green1914
- Edwin O'Connor1918
- Arthur Miller1915
Born in United States
- Dizzy GillespieAmerican jazz trumpeter
- Robert BlochAmerican fiction writer
- Arthur M. SchlesingerAmerican historian, social critic, and public intellectual
- Robert Burns WoodwardAmerican chemist
- Thelonious MonkAmerican jazz pianist and composer
- Barry NelsonAmerican actor
More charts like Robert’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Henrik PontoppidanDanish writer, Nobel Laureate
- Elias CanettiBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
- Christiaan EijkmanDutch physician
Born in Snake years
- Elizabeth OlsenAmerican actress
- Taron EgertonBritish actor
- Chris BrownAmerican singer and rapper
Also born on August 6
- Andy Warhol1928
- Alexander Fleming1881
- Lucille Ball1911
- Michelle Yeoh1962
- Elliott Smith1969
- Nessa Barrett2002
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Jessica LangeAmerican actress
- Mark RuffaloAmerican actor
- Eva GreenFrench actress
Other Leo Snake charts
- Pat Harrington Jr.American Emmy Award-winning stage and television actor
- Sam MendesBritish stage and film director (born 1965)
- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor
- James HornerAmerican film composer and conductor
Other Gilded Architects
- Georges J. F. KöhlerGerman immunologist
- Sheldon GlashowAmerican theoretical physicist
- François EnglertBelgian theoretical physicist
- Gerard 't HooftDutch theoretical physicist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Narendra ModiPrime Minister of India since 2014
- Angelina JolieAmerican actress, humanitarian and filmmaker
- Steven SpielbergAmerican filmmaker
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Robert’s cards
Computed from August 6, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16472 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by J. Fred Henry Publications, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Mitchum at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Mitchum.
Quick answers about Robert Mitchum’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Mitchum?
- Robert Mitchum was a Leo: born August 6, 1917, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Mitchum's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1917 birth.
- How tall was Robert Mitchum?
- Robert Mitchum was 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Robert Mitchum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Mitchum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Mitchum's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Mitchum's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
