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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 17, 1874
Place of Birth:
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Grant Mitchell
Biography
Grant Mitchell (born John Grant Mitchell Jr.) was an American stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for his portrayals of fathers, husbands, bank clerks, businessmen, school principals and similar type characters, usually supporting, in films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Mitchell, a Yale post graduate at Harvard Law, gave up his law practice to become an actor, making his stage debut at age 27. He appeared in lead roles on Broadway in such plays as "It Pays to Advertise", "The Champion", "The Whole Town's Talking", and "The Baby Cyclone", the last which was specially written for him by George M. Cohan.
His screen career took off with the advent of sound (years earlier he had appeared in at least two silent films). He appeared primarily in B films, though from time to time enjoyed being a part of A-quality productions such as Dinner at Eight (1933), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Grant Mitchell retired from show business in 1948. He died, age 82, in Los Angeles in 1957.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Who Killed Doc Robbin? | Judge |
| 1947 | Blondie's Anniversary | Samuel Breckenbridge |
| 1947 | Blondie's Holiday | Samuel Breckenridge |
| 1947 | It Happened on Fifth Avenue | Al Farrow |
| 1947 | The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Mitchell Edwards |
| 1947 | Honeymoon | Congressman Crenshaw |
| 1946 | Easy to Wed | Homer Henshaw |
| 1945 | Conflict | Dr. Grant |
| 1945 | Crime, Inc. | Wayne Clark |
| 1945 | A Medal for Benny | Mayor of Pantera |
| 1945 | Guest Wife | House Detective |
| 1945 | Leave Her to Heaven | Carlson (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Bring on the Girls | Ralph Neely |
| 1945 | Watchtower Over Tomorrow | Passenger with newspaper |
| 1945 | Her Favorite Patient | Mr. Pope |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Reverend Harper |
| 1944 | Step Lively | Dr. Gibbs |
| 1944 | And Now Tomorrow | Uncle Wallace |
| 1944 | When the Lights Go On Again | Arnold Benson |
| 1944 | The Impatient Years | Hotel Clerk |
| 1944 | See Here, Private Hargrove | Uncle George |
| 1943 | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Edgar Holliday |
| 1943 | Dixie | Mr. Mason |
| 1943 | All by Myself | J.D. Gibbons |
| 1942 | My Sister Eileen | Walter Sherwood |
| 1942 | Cairo | Mr. O.H.P. Boggs |
| 1942 | Larceny, Inc. | Mr. Aspinwall |
| 1942 | Meet the Stewarts | Mr. Goodwin |
| 1942 | The Gay Sisters | Gilbert Wheeler |
| 1942 | Orchestra Wives | Dr. Ward |
| 1942 | March On, America! | John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Ernest W. Stanley |
| 1941 | Footsteps in the Dark | Wellington Carruthers |
| 1941 | Tobacco Road | George Payne |
| 1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Clayton Potter |
| 1941 | The Feminine Touch | Dean Hutchinson |
| 1941 | Skylark | Frederick Vantine |
| 1941 | Nothing But the Truth | Mr. Bishop |
| 1941 | The Penalty | Judge |
| 1941 | The Great Lie | Joshua Mason |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Caretaker |
| 1940 | New Moon | Governor of New Orleans |
| 1940 | It All Came True | Rene Salmon |
| 1940 | Father Is A Prince | John W. Bower |
| 1940 | My Love Came Back | Dr. Kobbe |
| 1940 | Edison, the Man | Snade |
| 1940 | We Who Are Young | Jones |
| 1940 | Castle on the Hudson | Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Senator MacPherson |
| 1939 | The Monroe Doctrine | John Quincy Adams |
| 1939 | Hell's Kitchen | Hiram Krispan |
| 1939 | On Borrowed Time | Mr. Pilbeam |
| 1939 | 6,000 Enemies | Warden Alan Parkhurst |
| 1939 | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | John Xerxes Archley |
| 1938 | Reformatory | Arnold Frayne |
| 1938 | Hollywood Hotel | B.L. Faulkin |
| 1938 | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Henry Peck |
| 1938 | Women Are Like That | Mr. Snell |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling | Duke |
| 1938 | That Certain Age | Jeweler |
| 1938 | The Headleys at Home | Ernest Headley |
| 1937 | The Last Gangster | Warden |
| 1937 | First Lady | Ellsworth T. Banning |
| 1937 | Lady Behave! | Burton Williams |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | Georges Clemenceau |
| 1937 | Music for Madame | District Attorney Ernest Robinson |
| 1936 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | John Summers, Luxury's Owner |
| 1936 | Next Time We Love | Michael Jennings |
| 1936 | The Garden Murder Case | District Attorney Markham |
| 1936 | Piccadilly Jim | Herbert Pett |
| 1936 | My American Wife | Robert Cantillon |
| 1936 | Moonlight Murder | Paul Adams |
| 1936 | The Devil Is a Sissy | Paul Krumpp |
| 1936 | Her Master's Voice | Horace J. Twilling |
| 1936 | Parole! | Marty Crawford |
| 1935 | Straight from the Heart | Austin |
| 1935 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus |
| 1935 | One More Spring | Henry Sheridan |
| 1935 | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Thomas Hayden |
| 1935 | In Person | Judge Thaddeus Parks |
| 1935 | Broadway Gondolier | E.V. Richards, Radio Producer |
| 1935 | Men Without Names | Andrew Webster |
| 1935 | Traveling Saleslady | Rufus Twitchell |
| 1935 | It's in the Air | W. R. Gridley |
| 1935 | Redheads on Parade | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| 1935 | A Dream Comes True | Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self |
| 1935 | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Louis Lamson |
| 1934 | The Cat's-Paw | Silk Hot McGee |
| 1934 | The Case of the Howling Dog | District Attorney Claude Drumm |
| 1934 | The Secret Bride | Willis Martin |
| 1934 | The Poor Rich | Tom Hopkins |
| 1934 | We're Rich Again | Wilbur Page |
| 1934 | Gridiron Flash | Howard Smith |
| 1934 | 365 Nights in Hollywood | J. Walter Delmar |
| 1934 | Twenty Million Sweethearts | Sharpe |
| 1934 | The Show-Off | Mr. 'Pa' |
| 1934 | One Exciting Adventure | Fussli |
| 1933 | Dancing Lady | Jasper Bradley Sr. |
| 1933 | Heroes for Sale | George Gibson |
| 1933 | Wild Boys of the Road | James Smith |
| 1933 | Lilly Turner | Dr. Hawley |
| 1933 | Central Airport | Mr. Blaine |
| 1933 | Tomorrow at Seven | Austin Winters |
| 1933 | Our Betters | Thornton Clay |
| 1933 | Convention City | J.B. Honeywell |
| 1933 | The Stranger's Return | Allen |
| 1933 | Dinner at Eight | Ed Loomis |
| 1933 | King for a Night | Rev. John Williams |
| 1933 | I Love That Man | Dr. Crittenden - Dentist |
| 1933 | He Learned About Women | Appleby |
| 1933 | Saturday's Millions | Ezra Fowler |
| 1932 | No Man of Her Own | Vane |
| 1932 | Three on a Match | Mr. Gilmore (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Famous Ferguson Case | Martin Collins |
| 1932 | A Successful Calamity | Connors |
| 1932 | Week-End Marriage | Doctor |
| 1932 | Big City Blues | Station Agent |
| 1932 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited) |
| 1932 | If I Had a Million | Prison Priest (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Star Witness | Pa Leeds |
| 1930 | Man to Man | Barber John Martin Bolton |
| 1922 | The Man from M.A.R.S. | Arthur Wyman |
| 1916 | The Misleading Lady | Stephen Weatherbee |
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