Mitchell brothers

The Mitchell brothers were two American brothers, James Lloyd Mitchell, known as Jim (born 30 November 1943 in Stockton, California, died 12 July 2007 in Petaluma, California), and Artie Jay Mitchell (born 17 December 1945 in Lodi, California, died 27 February 1991 in Marin County, California). They worked as entrepreneurs in the pornography and striptease club business in San Francisco and other parts of California from 1969 until 1991. They opened the O'Farrell Theatre in 1969 as an adult cinema, at one time ran eleven such businesses, and produced and directed many adult films, including Behind the Green Door in 1972. They also won many obscenity cases as defendants. Their notoriety rose sharply in 1991 when Jim was convicted of killing Artie, and they later became the subject of three books and the film Rated X.