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.
1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage) |
1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
1948 | Who Killed Doc Robbin? as Judge |
1947 | Blondie's Anniversary as Samuel Breckenbridge |
1947 | The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Mitchell Edwards |
1947 | Honeymoon as Congressman Crenshaw |
1947 | It Happened on Fifth Avenue as Al Farrow |
1947 | Blondie's Holiday as Samuel Breckenridge |
1946 | Easy to Wed as Homer Henshaw |
1945 | Leave Her to Heaven as Carlson (uncredited) |
1945 | Guest Wife as House Detective |
1945 | Bedside Manner as Mr. Pope |
1945 | Conflict as Dr. Grant |
1945 | A Medal for Benny as Mayor of Pantera |
1945 | Crime, Inc. as Wayne Clark |
1945 | Bring on the Girls as Ralph Neely |
1945 | Watchtower Over Tomorrow as Passenger with newspaper |
1944 | And Now Tomorrow as Uncle Wallace |
1944 | When the Lights Go On Again as Arnold Benson |
1944 | The Impatient Years as Hotel Clerk |
1944 | Arsenik Kurbanları as Reverend Harper |
1944 | Step Lively as Dr. Gibbs |
1944 | See Here, Private Hargrove as Uncle George |
1943 | Dixie as Mr. Mason |
1943 | All by Myself as J.D. Gibbons |
1943 | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday as Edgar Holliday |
1942 | My Sister Eileen as Walter Sherwood |
1942 | Orchestra Wives as Dr. Ward |
1942 | Cairo as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs |
1942 | The Gay Sisters as Gilbert Wheeler |
1942 | March On, America! as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited) |
1942 | Meet the Stewarts as Mr. Goodwin |
1942 | Larceny, Inc. as Mr. Aspinwall |
1941 | The Man Who Came to Dinner as Ernest W. Stanley |
1941 | Skylark as Frederick Vantine |
1941 | One Foot in Heaven as Clayton Potter |
1941 | Nothing But the Truth as Mr. Bishop |
1941 | The Feminine Touch as Dean Hutchinson |
1941 | The Great Lie as Joshua Mason |
1941 | The Penalty as Judge |
1941 | Footsteps in the Dark as Wellington Carruthers |
1941 | Tobacco Road as George Payne |
1940 | Father Is A Prince as John W. Bower |
1940 | We Who Are Young as Jones |
1940 | My Love Came Back as Dr. Kobbe |
1940 | New Moon as Governor of New Orleans |
1940 | Edison, the Man as Snade |
1940 | It All Came True as Rene Salmon |
1940 | Gazap Üzümleri as Caretaker |
1940 | Castle on the Hudson as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited) |
1939 | The Secret of Dr. Kildare as John Xerxes Archley |
1939 | Bay Smith Vaşington'a Gidiyor as Senator MacPherson |
1939 | The Monroe Doctrine as John Quincy Adams |
1939 | Hell's Kitchen as Hiram Krispan |
1939 | On Borrowed Time as Mr. Pilbeam |
1939 | 6,000 Enemies as Warden Alan Parkhurst |
1938 | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus as Henry Peck |
1938 | The Headleys at Home as Ernest Headley |
1938 | That Certain Age as Jeweler |
1938 | Youth Takes a Fling as Duke |
1938 | Reformatory as Arnold Frayne |
1938 | Women Are Like That as Mr. Snell |
1938 | Hollywood Hotel as B.L. Faulkin |
1937 | Lady Behave! as Burton Williams |
1937 | First Lady as Ellsworth T. Banning |
1937 | The Last Gangster as Warden |
1937 | Music for Madame as District Attorney Ernest Robinson |
1937 | The Life of Emile Zola as Georges Clemenceau |
1936 | The Devil Is a Sissy as Paul Krumpp |
1936 | Piccadilly Jim as Herbert Pett |
1936 | My American Wife as Robert Cantillon |
1936 | Parole! as Marty Crawford |
1936 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford as John Summers, Luxury's Owner |
1936 | Moonlight Murder as Paul Adams |
1936 | The Garden Murder Case as District Attorney Markham |
1936 | Next Time We Love as Michael Jennings |
1936 | Her Master's Voice as Horace J. Twilling |
1935 | A Dream Comes True as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited) |
1935 | Seven Keys to Baldpate as Thomas Hayden |
1935 | Things You Never See on the Screen as Self |
1935 | In Person as Judge Thaddeus Parks |
1935 | It's in the Air as W. R. Gridley |
1935 | A Midsummer Night's Dream as Egeus |
1935 | Redheads on Parade as Minor Role (uncredited) |
1935 | Broadway Gondolier as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer |
1935 | Men Without Names as Andrew Webster |
1935 | Traveling Saleslady as Rufus Twitchell |
1935 | Straight from the Heart as Austin |
1935 | Gold Diggers of 1935 as Louis Lamson |
1935 | One More Spring as Henry Sheridan |
1934 | The Secret Bride as Willis Martin |
1934 | 365 Nights in Hollywood as J. Walter Delmar |
1934 | Gridiron Flash as Howard Smith |
1934 | The Case of the Howling Dog as District Attorney Claude Drumm |
1934 | One Exciting Adventure as Fussli |
1934 | The Cat's-Paw as Silk Hot McGee |
1934 | We're Rich Again as Wilbur Page |
1934 | Twenty Million Sweethearts as Sharpe |
1934 | The Show-Off as Mr. 'Pa' |
1934 | The Poor Rich as Tom Hopkins |
1933 | Saat 8'de Ziyafet as Ed Loomis |
1933 | Convention City as J.B. Honeywell |
1933 | King for a Night as Rev. John Williams |
1933 | Dancing Lady as Jasper Bradley Sr. |
1933 | Wild Boys of the Road as James Smith |
1933 | Saturday's Millions as Ezra Fowler |
1933 | The Stranger's Return as Allen |
1933 | I Love That Man as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist |
1933 | Heroes for Sale as George Gibson |
1933 | Tomorrow at Seven as Austin Winters |
1933 | Lilly Turner as Dr. Hawley |
1933 | Central Airport as Mr. Blaine |
1933 | Our Betters as Thornton Clay |
1933 | He Learned About Women as Appleby |
1932 | No Man of Her Own as Charlie Vane |
1932 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited) |
1932 | If I Had a Million as Prison Priest (uncredited) |
1932 | Three on a Match as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited) |
1932 | Big City Blues as Station Agent |
1932 | A Successful Calamity as Connors |
1932 | Week-End Marriage as Doctor |
1932 | The Famous Ferguson Case as Martin Collins |
1931 | The Star Witness as Pa Leeds |
1930 | Man to Man as Barber John Martin Bolton |
1922 | The Man from M.A.R.S. as Arthur Wyman |
1916 | The Misleading Lady as Stephen Weatherbee |
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