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