Grant Mitchell
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.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Senator MacPherson
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Reverend Harper
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Caretaker
The Man from M.A.R.S.
1922 · Arthur Wyman
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · Carlson (uncredited)
Step Lively
1944 · Dr. Gibbs
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947 · Al Farrow
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 · Tester of Convicts' IQ...
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
Dinner at Eight
1933 · Ed Loomis
The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Georges Clemenceau
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Ernest W. Stanley
That Certain Age
1938 · Jeweler
Tobacco Road
1941 · George Payne
Guest Wife
1945 · House Detective
Convention City
1933 · J.B. Honeywell
Dancing Lady
1933 · Jasper Bradley Sr.
I Love That Man
1933 · Dr. Crittenden - Denti...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · Egeus
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945 · Passenger with newspap...
Dixie
1943 · Mr. Mason
Father Is A Prince
1940 · John W. Bower
Reformatory
1938 · Arnold Frayne
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Self
King for a Night
1933 · Rev. John Williams
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935 · Thomas Hayden
Three on a Match
1932 · Mr. Gilmore (uncredite...
Hell's Kitchen
1939 · Hiram Krispan
Nothing but the Truth
1941 · Mr. Bishop
Larceny, Inc.
1942 · Mr. Aspinwall
Edison, the Man
1940 · Snade
Conflict
1945 · Dr. Grant
The Last Gangster
1937 · Warden
Heroes for Sale
1933 · George Gibson
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Ed Loomis in 'Dinner a...
The Great Lie
1941 · Joshua Mason
He Learned About Women
1933 · Appleby
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936 · Paul Krumpp
On Borrowed Time
1939 · Mr. Pilbeam
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Edgar Holliday
Parole!
1936 · Marty Crawford
We Who Are Young
1940 · Jones
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944 · Uncle George
Traveling Saleslady
1935 · Rufus Twitchell
My American Wife
1936 · Robert Cantillon
If I Had a Million
1932 · Prison Priest (uncredi...
Crime, Inc.
1945 · Wayne Clark
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 · John Archley
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Mitchell Edwards
New Moon
1940 · Governor of New Orlean...
Blondie's Anniversary
1947 · Samuel Breckenbridge
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933 · Joe Martel
Central Airport
1933 · Mr. Blaine
Wild Boys of the Road
1933 · James Smith
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Egeus (archive footage...
Men Without Names
1935 · Andrew Webster, banker
Man to Man
1930 · Barber John Martin Bol...
Her Master's Voice
1936 · Horace J. Twilling
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934 · District Attorney Clau...
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940 · E.J. Randall
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · Dr. Ames - the Psychol...
The Misleading Lady
1916 · Stephen Weatherbee
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · John Summers, Luxury's...
The Show-Off
1934 · Mr. 'Pa'
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · Wellington Carruthers
In Person
1935 · Thaddeus Parks
No Man of Her Own
1932 · Vane
The Monroe Doctrine
1939 · John Quincy Adams
The Cat's-Paw
1934 · Silk Hot McGee
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Clayton Potter
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · E.V. Richards, Radio P...
The Penalty
1941 · Judge
Music for Madame
1937 · District Attorney Erne...
It's in the Air
1935 · W. R. Gridley
Redheads on Parade
1935 · Minor Role (uncredited...
Cairo
1942 · Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Louis Lamson
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934 · Sharpe
My Sister Eileen
1942 · Walter Sherwood
The Star Witness
1931 · Pa Leeds
When the Lights Go On Again
1944 · Arnold Benson
Meet the Stewarts
1942 · Mr. Goodwin
The Impatient Years
1944 · Hotel Clerk
The Gay Sisters
1942 · Gilbert Wheeler
A Medal for Benny
1945 · Mayor of Pantera
A Successful Calamity
1932 · Connors
One More Spring
1935 · Henry Sheridan
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938 · Henry Peck
Straight from the Heart
1935 · Austin
Piccadilly Jim
1936 · Herbert Pett
All by Myself
1943 · J.D. Gibbons
Easy to Wed
1946 · Homer Henshaw
And Now Tomorrow
1944 · Uncle Wallace
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Austin Winters
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · District Attorney Mark...
It All Came True
1940 · Rene Salmon
We're Rich Again
1934 · Wilbur Page
The Feminine Touch
1941 · Dean Hutchinson
Week-End Marriage
1932 · Doctor
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · J. Walter Delmar
Bedside Manner
1945 · Mr. Pope
Bring on the Girls
1945 · Ralph Neely
My Love Came Back
1940 · Dr. Kobbe
Lilly Turner
1933 · Dr. Hawley
Hollywood Hotel
1938 · B.L. Faulkin
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932 · Martin Collins
Blondie's Holiday
1947 · Samuel Breckenridge
Big City Blues
1932 · Station Agent
Lady Behave!
1937 · Burton Williams
The Headleys at Home
1938 · Ernest Headley
Next Time We Love
1936 · Michael Jennings
The Poor Rich
1934 · Tom Hopkins
Youth Takes a Fling
1938 · Duke
Orchestra Wives
1942 · Dr. Ward
Honeymoon
1947 · Congressman Crenshaw
One Exciting Adventure
1934 · Fussli
The Stranger's Return
1933 · Allen
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948 · Judge
Saturday's Millions
1933 · Ezra Fowler
Moonlight Murder
1936 · Paul Adams
Gridiron Flash
1934 · Howard Smith
Skylark
1941 · Frederick Vantine
Women Are Like That
1938 · Mr. Snell
6,000 Enemies
1939 · Warden Alan Parkhurst
The Secret Bride
1934 · Willis Martin
Our Betters
1933 · Thornton Clay
First Lady
1937 · Ellsworth T. Banning
March On, America!
1942 · John Quincy Adams (arc...