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James Mitchell | 'All My Children' actor, 89

James Mitchell, 89, who for nearly three decades played gruff patriarch Palmer Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera All My Children , died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his longtime partner, Albert Wolsky, said Sunday.

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James Mitchell, 89, who for nearly three decades played gruff patriarch Palmer Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera

All My Children

, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his longtime partner, Albert Wolsky, said Sunday.

He had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for years, complicated by a recent bout of pneumonia.

He appeared on the popular soap from 1979 until a 40th-anniversary episode this month. He was a regular on the show until 2008.

Born in Sacramento, Calif., in 1920 and trained as a dancer, he had leading roles in Broadway's Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon and danced with the American Ballet Theatre.

Films include 1953's The Band Wagon with Fred Astaire and 1955's Oklahoma. - AP

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