<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1916--62 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Rachel Hartzell (1937--1939) Ann Stuart Breswer (1915--1935; 1941--1962; his death) </Td> </Tr> <P> Thomas John Mitchell (July 11, 1892--December 17, 1962) was an American actor . Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life and Mayor Jonas Henderson in High Noon . Mitchell was the first male actor to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award . </P> <P> Nominated twice for an Oscar, first for The Hurricane (1938), he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Stagecoach (1939); later, he would be nominated three times for an Emmy Award . He was nominated twice, in 1952 and 1953, for his role in the medical drama The Doctor, winning the Lead Actor Drama award in 1953 . Nominated again in 1955, for an appearance on a weekly anthology series, he did not win . Mitchell won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical, in 1953, for his role as Dr Downer in the musical comedy Hazel Flagg, based on the 1937 Paramount comedy film Nothing Sacred, rounding out the Triple Crown of Acting . In addition to being an actor, he was also a director, playwright, and screenwriter . </P>

Who played pa in gone with the wind