Grant Mitchell

Overview

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

Acting
1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Actor	Self (archive footage)	59 Average
1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Actor	Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)	59 Average
1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	Actor	'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)	58 Average
1948	Who Killed Doc Robbin?	Actor	Judge	58 Average
1947	Blondie's Anniversary	Actor	Samuel Breckenbridge	59 Average
1947	The Corpse Came C.O.D.	Actor	Mitchell Edwards	59 Average
1947	Honeymoon	Actor	Congressman Crenshaw	58 Average
1947	It Happened on Fifth Avenue	Actor	Al Farrow	60 Fair
1947	Blondie's Holiday	Actor	Samuel Breckenridge	59 Average
1946	Easy to Wed	Actor	Homer Henshaw	58 Average
1945	Leave Her to Heaven	Actor	Carlson (uncredited)	63 Fair
1945	Guest Wife	Actor	House Detective	59 Average
1945	Her Favorite Patient	Actor	Mr. Pope	59 Average
1945	Conflict	Actor	Dr. Grant	59 Average
1945	A Medal for Benny	Actor	Mayor of Pantera	58 Average
1945	Crime, Inc.	Actor	Wayne Clark	58 Average
1945	Bring on the Girls	Actor	Ralph Neely	59 Average
1945	Watchtower Over Tomorrow	Actor	Passenger with newspaper	59 Average
1944	And Now Tomorrow	Actor	Uncle Wallace	58 Average
1944	When the Lights Go On Again	Actor	Arnold Benson	59 Average
1944	The Impatient Years	Actor	Hotel Clerk	58 Average
1944	Arsenic and Old Lace	Actor	Reverend Harper	69 Fair
1944	Step Lively	Actor	Dr. Gibbs	59 Average
1944	See Here, Private Hargrove	Actor	Uncle George	59 Average
1943	Dixie	Actor	Mr. Mason	58 Average
1943	All by Myself	Actor	J.D. Gibbons	N/A N/A
1943	The Amazing Mrs. Holliday	Actor	Edgar Holliday	59 Average
1942	My Sister Eileen	Actor	Walter Sherwood	59 Average
1942	Orchestra Wives	Actor	Dr. Ward	58 Average
1942	Cairo	Actor	Mr. O.H.P. Boggs	59 Average
1942	The Gay Sisters	Actor	Gilbert Wheeler	59 Average
1942	March On, America!	Actor	John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)	59 Average
1942	Meet the Stewarts	Actor	Mr. Goodwin	59 Average
1942	Larceny, Inc.	Actor	Mr. Aspinwall	59 Average
1941	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Actor	Ernest W. Stanley	60 Fair
1941	Skylark	Actor	Frederick Vantine	59 Average
1941	One Foot in Heaven	Actor	Clayton Potter	59 Average
1941	Nothing But the Truth	Actor	Mr. Bishop	59 Average
1941	The Feminine Touch	Actor	Dean Hutchinson	58 Average
1941	The Great Lie	Actor	Joshua Mason	59 Average
1941	The Penalty	Actor	Judge	59 Average
1941	Footsteps in the Dark	Actor	Wellington Carruthers	59 Average
1941	Tobacco Road	Actor	George Payne	59 Average
1940	Father Is A Prince	Actor	John W. Bower	59 Average
1940	We Who Are Young	Actor	Jones	59 Average
1940	My Love Came Back	Actor	Dr. Kobbe	58 Average
1940	New Moon	Actor	Governor of New Orleans	59 Average
1940	Edison, the Man	Actor	Snade	59 Average
1940	It All Came True	Actor	Rene Salmon	59 Average
1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Actor	Caretaker	71 Good
1940	Castle on the Hudson	Actor	Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)	59 Average
1939	The Secret of Dr. Kildare	Actor	John Xerxes Archley	58 Average
1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Actor	Senator MacPherson	72 Good
1939	The Monroe Doctrine	Actor	John Quincy Adams	59 Average
1939	Hell's Kitchen	Actor	Hiram Krispan	59 Average
1939	On Borrowed Time	Actor	Mr. Pilbeam	59 Average
1939	6,000 Enemies	Actor	Warden Alan Parkhurst	59 Average
1938	Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus	Actor	Henry Peck	58 Average
1938	The Headleys at Home	Actor	Ernest Headley	N/A N/A
1938	That Certain Age	Actor	Jeweler	58 Average
1938	Youth Takes a Fling	Actor	Duke	58 Average
1938	Reformatory	Actor	Arnold Frayne	59 Average
1938	Women Are Like That	Actor	Mr. Snell	59 Average
1938	Hollywood Hotel	Actor	B.L. Faulkin	58 Average
1937	Lady Behave!	Actor	Burton Williams	58 Average
1937	First Lady	Actor	Ellsworth T. Banning	59 Average
1937	The Last Gangster	Actor	Warden	59 Average
1937	Music for Madame	Actor	District Attorney Ernest Robinson	59 Average
1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Actor	Georges Clemenceau	60 Fair
1936	The Devil Is a Sissy	Actor	Paul Krumpp	59 Average
1936	Piccadilly Jim	Actor	Herbert Pett	59 Average
1936	My American Wife	Actor	Robert Cantillon	N/A N/A
1936	Parole!	Actor	Marty Crawford	59 Average
1936	The Ex-Mrs. Bradford	Actor	John Summers, Luxury's Owner	58 Average
1936	Moonlight Murder	Actor	Paul Adams	58 Average
1936	The Garden Murder Case	Actor	District Attorney Markham	58 Average
1936	Next Time We Love	Actor	Michael Jennings	59 Average
1936	Her Master's Voice	Actor	Horace J. Twilling	59 Average
1935	A Dream Comes True	Actor	Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)	59 Average
1935	Seven Keys to Baldpate	Actor	Thomas Hayden	59 Average
1935	Things You Never See on the Screen	Actor	Self	59 Average
1935	In Person	Actor	Judge Thaddeus Parks	59 Average
1935	It's in the Air	Actor	W. R. Gridley	58 Average
1935	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Actor	Egeus	59 Average
1935	Redheads on Parade	Actor	Minor Role (uncredited)	N/A N/A
1935	Broadway Gondolier	Actor	E.V. Richards, Radio Producer	58 Average
1935	Men Without Names	Actor	Andrew Webster	59 Average
1935	Traveling Saleslady	Actor	Rufus Twitchell	59 Average
1935	Straight from the Heart	Actor	Austin	N/A N/A
1935	Gold Diggers of 1935	Actor	Louis Lamson	59 Average
1935	One More Spring	Actor	Henry Sheridan	59 Average
1934	The Secret Bride	Actor	Willis Martin	59 Average
1934	365 Nights in Hollywood	Actor	J. Walter Delmar	N/A N/A
1934	Gridiron Flash	Actor	Howard Smith	58 Average
1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	Actor	District Attorney Claude Drumm	59 Average
1934	One Exciting Adventure	Actor	Fussli	N/A N/A
1934	The Cat's-Paw	Actor	Silk Hot McGee	59 Average
1934	We're Rich Again	Actor	Wilbur Page	58 Average
1934	Twenty Million Sweethearts	Actor	Sharpe	59 Average
1934	The Show-Off	Actor	Mr. 'Pa'	59 Average
1934	The Poor Rich	Actor	Tom Hopkins	N/A N/A
1933	Dinner at Eight	Actor	Ed Loomis	60 Fair
1933	Convention City	Actor	J.B. Honeywell	58 Average
1933	King for a Night	Actor	Rev. John Williams	59 Average
1933	Dancing Lady	Actor	Jasper Bradley Sr.	59 Average
1933	Wild Boys of the Road	Actor	James Smith	59 Average
1933	Saturday's Millions	Actor	Ezra Fowler	N/A N/A
1933	The Stranger's Return	Actor	Allen	59 Average
1933	I Love That Man	Actor	Dr. Crittenden - Dentist	N/A N/A
1933	Heroes for Sale	Actor	George Gibson	59 Average
1933	Tomorrow at Seven	Actor	Austin Winters	59 Average
1933	Lilly Turner	Actor	Dr. Hawley	59 Average
1933	Central Airport	Actor	Mr. Blaine	59 Average
1933	Our Betters	Actor	Thornton Clay	58 Average
1933	He Learned About Women	Actor	Appleby	N/A N/A
1932	No Man of Her Own	Actor	Charlie Vane	59 Average
1932	20,000 Years in Sing Sing	Actor	Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)	59 Average
1932	If I Had a Million	Actor	Prison Priest (uncredited)	59 Average
1932	Three on a Match	Actor	Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)	59 Average
1932	Big City Blues	Actor	Station Agent	58 Average
1932	A Successful Calamity	Actor	Connors	58 Average
1932	Week-End Marriage	Actor	Doctor	59 Average
1932	The Famous Ferguson Case	Actor	Martin Collins	59 Average
1931	The Star Witness	Actor	Pa Leeds	59 Average
1930	Man to Man	Actor	Barber John Martin Bolton	59 Average
1922	The Man from M.A.R.S.	Actor	Arthur Wyman	N/A N/A
1916	The Misleading Lady	Actor	Stephen Weatherbee	N/A N/A

About

Grant Mitchell

Overview

Known for

Acting