Mitchum Huntzberger is a recurring character on Gilmore Girls. He is portrayed by Gregg Henry.
Character[]
Mitchum is the father of Logan and Honor Huntzberger and the husband of Shira Huntzberger. He is a big-shot in the newspaper industry and is very wealthy. He treated Rory better than his father and wife did when they all first met her.[4] He offers Rory an internship at the Stamford Gazette, but eventually he tells her he doesn't think she "has what it takes."[5] He takes it back in Season 7, and tells her he would be willing to help her get any job she wanted at any newspaper she liked.
Early history[]
Mitchum was born in 1953, the second of four children and the oldest son. A Yale alum who ran track, he did not attend grad school and had some "lost" years after college. He worked as a reporter and editor on two of the Huntzberger papers before taking over as CEO of the company.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Mitchum hates peas and is interested in sailing and wine (he even wrote a wine column for some time).
- He only sleeps 4 hours a night.
- There are 12,053 entries on Google about him in 2005.
- Mitchum was shortlisted for the Pullitzer for covering the Iranian hostage crisis when he was 25.
- Also covered Haiti in 1985.
- He likes jazz.
- He hates it when people quote My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music.
- He switches to decaf after 4:00 because of high blood pressure.
- He hates double talk, but he's really good at it.
- He ran a 4 minute mile in college.
- He usually notices people who stay late at his papers.
- He's Episcopalian.