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