Grant Mitchell

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

Born: Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1874-06-17

Died: 1957-05-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1916	The Misleading Lady	Stephen Weatherbee	0
2	1922	The Man from M.A.R.S.	Arthur Wyman	0
3	1930	Man to Man	Barber John Martin Bolton	57
4	1931	The Star Witness	Pa Leeds	67
5	1932	The Famous Ferguson Case	Martin Collins	60
6	1932	Week-End Marriage	Doctor	60
7	1932	A Successful Calamity	Connors	52
8	1932	Big City Blues	Station Agent	53
9	1932	Three on a Match	Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)	63
10	1932	If I Had a Million	Prison Priest (uncredited)	67
11	1932	20,000 Years in Sing Sing	Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)	63
12	1932	No Man of Her Own	Vane	65
13	1933	He Learned About Women	Appleby	0
14	1933	Our Betters	Thornton Clay	54
15	1933	Central Airport	Mr. Blaine	61
16	1933	Lilly Turner	Dr. Hawley	56
17	1933	Tomorrow at Seven	Austin Winters	60
18	1933	Heroes for Sale	George Gibson	70
19	1933	I Love That Man	Dr. Crittenden - Dentist	0
20	1933	The Stranger's Return	Allen	62
21	1933	Saturday's Millions	Ezra Fowler	50
22	1933	Wild Boys of the Road	James Smith	69
23	1933	Dancing Lady	Jasper Bradley Sr.	69
24	1933	King for a Night	Rev. John Williams	62
25	1933	Convention City	J.B. Honeywell	37
26	1933	Dinner at Eight	Ed Loomis	67
27	1934	The Poor Rich	Tom Hopkins	0
28	1934	The Show-Off	Mr. 'Pa'	57
29	1934	Twenty Million Sweethearts	Sharpe	60
30	1934	We're Rich Again	Wilbur Page	40
31	1934	The Cat's-Paw	Silk Hot McGee	62
32	1934	One Exciting Adventure	Fussli	0
33	1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	District Attorney Claude Drumm	65
34	1934	Gridiron Flash	Howard Smith	33
35	1934	365 Nights in Hollywood	J. Walter Delmar	0
36	1934	The Secret Bride	Willis Martin	59
37	1935	One More Spring	Henry Sheridan	58
38	1935	Gold Diggers of 1935	Louis Lamson	64
39	1935	Straight from the Heart	Austin	0
40	1935	Traveling Saleslady	Rufus Twitchell	59
41	1935	Men Without Names	Andrew Webster	60
42	1935	Broadway Gondolier	E.V. Richards, Radio Producer	54
43	1935	Redheads on Parade	Minor Role (uncredited)	0
44	1935	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Egeus	64
45	1935	It's in the Air	W. R. Gridley	50
46	1935	In Person	Judge Thaddeus Parks	63
47	1935	Things You Never See on the Screen	Self	50
48	1935	Seven Keys to Baldpate	Thomas Hayden	66
49	1935	A Dream Comes True	Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)	55
50	1936	Her Master's Voice	Horace J. Twilling	60
51	1936	Next Time We Love	Michael Jennings	62
52	1936	The Garden Murder Case	District Attorney Markham	55
53	1936	Moonlight Murder	Paul Adams	50
54	1936	The Ex-Mrs. Bradford	John Summers, Luxury's Owner	62
55	1936	Parole!	Marty Crawford	60
56	1936	My American Wife	Robert Cantillon	0
57	1936	Piccadilly Jim	Herbert Pett	65
58	1936	The Devil Is a Sissy	Paul Krumpp	69
59	1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Georges Clemenceau	66
60	1937	Music for Madame	District Attorney Ernest Robinson	50
61	1937	The Last Gangster	Warden	63
62	1937	First Lady	Ellsworth T. Banning	62
63	1937	Lady Behave!	Burton Williams	47
64	1938	Hollywood Hotel	B.L. Faulkin	54
65	1938	Women Are Like That	Mr. Snell	57
66	1938	Reformatory	Arnold Frayne	60
67	1938	Youth Takes a Fling	Duke	10
68	1938	That Certain Age	Jeweler	51
69	1938	The Headleys at Home	Ernest Headley	0
70	1938	Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus	Henry Peck	48
71	1939	6,000 Enemies	Warden Alan Parkhurst	60
72	1939	On Borrowed Time	Mr. Pilbeam	75
73	1939	Hell's Kitchen	Hiram Krispan	62
74	1939	The Monroe Doctrine	John Quincy Adams	67
75	1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Senator MacPherson	79
76	1939	The Secret of Dr. Kildare	John Xerxes Archley	56
77	1940	Castle on the Hudson	Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)	68
78	1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Caretaker	78
79	1940	It All Came True	Rene Salmon	58
80	1940	Edison, the Man	Snade	66
81	1940	New Moon	Governor of New Orleans	68
82	1940	My Love Came Back	Dr. Kobbe	52
83	1940	We Who Are Young	Jones	58
84	1940	Father Is A Prince	John W. Bower	50
85	1941	Tobacco Road	George Payne	66
86	1941	Footsteps in the Dark	Wellington Carruthers	69
87	1941	The Penalty	Judge	60
88	1941	The Great Lie	Joshua Mason	68
89	1941	The Feminine Touch	Dean Hutchinson	51
90	1941	Nothing But the Truth	Mr. Bishop	71
91	1941	One Foot in Heaven	Clayton Potter	66
92	1941	Skylark	Frederick Vantine	65
93	1941	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Ernest W. Stanley	69
94	1942	Larceny, Inc.	Mr. Aspinwall	69
95	1942	Meet the Stewarts	Mr. Goodwin	43
96	1942	March On, America!	John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)	47
97	1942	The Gay Sisters	Gilbert Wheeler	65
98	1942	Cairo	Mr. O.H.P. Boggs	58
99	1942	Orchestra Wives	Dr. Ward	60
100	1942	My Sister Eileen	Walter Sherwood	67
101	1943	The Amazing Mrs. Holliday	Edgar Holliday	64
102	1943	All by Myself	J.D. Gibbons	0
103	1943	Dixie	Mr. Mason	30
104	1944	See Here, Private Hargrove	Uncle George	60
105	1944	Step Lively	Dr. Gibbs	60
106	1944	Arsenic and Old Lace	Reverend Harper	76
107	1944	The Impatient Years	Hotel Clerk	63
108	1944	When the Lights Go On Again	Arnold Benson	55
109	1944	And Now Tomorrow	Uncle Wallace	57
110	1945	Watchtower Over Tomorrow	Passenger with newspaper	50
111	1945	Bring on the Girls	Ralph Neely	61
112	1945	Crime, Inc.	Wayne Clark	42
113	1945	A Medal for Benny	Mayor of Pantera	45
114	1945	Conflict	Dr. Grant	66
115	1945	Her Favorite Patient	Mr. Pope	57
116	1945	Guest Wife	House Detective	62
117	1945	Leave Her to Heaven	Carlson (uncredited)	74
118	1946	Easy to Wed	Homer Henshaw	62
119	1947	Blondie's Holiday	Samuel Breckenridge	60
120	1947	It Happened on Fifth Avenue	Al Farrow	70
121	1947	Honeymoon	Congressman Crenshaw	64
122	1947	The Corpse Came C.O.D.	Mitchell Edwards	57
123	1947	Blondie's Anniversary	Samuel Breckenbridge	56
124	1948	Who Killed Doc Robbin?	Judge	37
125	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)	33
126	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)	63
127	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57

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