Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 17, 1874
Died
May 01, 1957
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Credits
128 titles
Grant Mitchell
Biography
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
Filmography
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Judge
Blondie's Anniversary
Samuel Breckenbridge
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Mitchell Edwards
Honeymoon
Congressman Crenshaw
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Al Farrow
Blondie's Holiday
Samuel Breckenridge
Easy to Wed
Homer Henshaw
Leave Her to Heaven
Carlson (uncredited)
Guest Wife
House Detective
Bedside Manner
Mr. Pope
Conflict
Dr. Grant
A Medal for Benny
Mayor of Pantera
Crime, Inc.
Wayne Clark
Bring on the Girls
Ralph Neely
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Passenger with newspaper
And Now Tomorrow
Uncle Wallace
When the Lights Go On Again
Arnold Benson
The Impatient Years
Hotel Clerk
Arsenic and Old Lace
Reverend Harper
Step Lively
Dr. Gibbs
See Here, Private Hargrove
Uncle George
Dixie
Mr. Mason
All by Myself
J.D. Gibbons
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Edgar Holliday
My Sister Eileen
Walter Sherwood
Orchestra Wives
Dr. Ward
Cairo
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
The Gay Sisters
Gilbert Wheeler
March On, America!
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Meet the Stewarts
Mr. Goodwin
Larceny, Inc.
Mr. Aspinwall
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Ernest W. Stanley
Skylark
Frederick Vantine
One Foot in Heaven
Clayton Potter
Nothing but the Truth
Mr. Bishop
The Feminine Touch
Dean Hutchinson
The Great Lie
Joshua Mason
The Penalty
Judge
Footsteps in the Dark
Wellington Carruthers
Tobacco Road
George Payne
Father Is A Prince
John W. Bower
The Bride Wore Crutches
E.J. Randall
We Who Are Young
Jones
My Love Came Back
Dr. Kobbe
New Moon
Governor of New Orleans
Edison, the Man
Snade
It All Came True
Rene Salmon
The Grapes of Wrath
Caretaker