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