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