Grant Mitchell

Known For: Acting
Born: June 17, 1874
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Died: May 1, 1957

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), …

Filmography

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975 · Self (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

1948 · Judge

Blondie's Anniversary

1947 · Samuel Breckenbridge

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

1947 · Mitchell Edwards

Honeymoon

1947 · Congressman Crenshaw

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

1947 · Al Farrow

Blondie's Holiday

1947 · Samuel Breckenridge

Easy to Wed

1946 · Homer Henshaw

Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Carlson (uncredited)

Guest Wife

1945 · House Detective

Bedside Manner

1945 · Mr. Pope

Conflict

1945 · Dr. Grant

A Medal for Benny

1945 · Mayor of Pantera

Crime, Inc.

1945 · Wayne Clark

Bring on the Girls

1945 · Ralph Neely

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

1945 · Passenger with newspaper

And Now Tomorrow

1944 · Uncle Wallace

When the Lights Go On Again

1944 · Arnold Benson

The Impatient Years

1944 · Hotel Clerk

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · Reverend Harper

Step Lively

1944 · Dr. Gibbs

See Here, Private Hargrove

1944 · Uncle George

Dixie

1943 · Mr. Mason

All by Myself

1943 · J.D. Gibbons

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

1943 · Edgar Holliday

My Sister Eileen

1942 · Walter Sherwood

Orchestra Wives

1942 · Dr. Ward

Cairo

1942 · Mr. O.H.P. Boggs

The Gay Sisters

1942 · Gilbert Wheeler

March On, America!

1942 · John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)

Meet the Stewarts

1942 · Mr. Goodwin

Larceny, Inc.

1942 · Mr. Aspinwall

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941 · Ernest W. Stanley

Skylark

1941 · Frederick Vantine

One Foot in Heaven

1941 · Clayton Potter

Nothing but the Truth

1941 · Mr. Bishop

The Feminine Touch

1941 · Dean Hutchinson

The Great Lie

1941 · Joshua Mason

The Penalty

1941 · Judge

Footsteps in the Dark

1941 · Wellington Carruthers

Tobacco Road

1941 · George Payne

Father Is A Prince

1940 · John W. Bower

The Bride Wore Crutches

1940 · E.J. Randall

We Who Are Young

1940 · Jones

My Love Came Back

1940 · Dr. Kobbe

New Moon

1940 · Governor of New Orleans

Edison, the Man

1940 · Snade

It All Came True

1940 · Rene Salmon

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · Caretaker

Castle on the Hudson

1940 · Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

1939 · John Archley

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · Senator MacPherson

The Monroe Doctrine

1939 · John Quincy Adams

Hell's Kitchen

1939 · Hiram Krispan

On Borrowed Time

1939 · Mr. Pilbeam

6,000 Enemies

1939 · Warden Alan Parkhurst

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

1938 · Henry Peck

The Headleys at Home

1938 · Ernest Headley

That Certain Age

1938 · Jeweler

Youth Takes a Fling

1938 · Duke

Reformatory

1938 · Arnold Frayne

Women Are Like That

1938 · Mr. Snell

Hollywood Hotel

1938 · B.L. Faulkin

Lady Behave!

1937 · Burton Williams

First Lady

1937 · Ellsworth T. Banning

The Last Gangster

1937 · Warden

Music for Madame

1937 · District Attorney Ernest Robinson

The Life of Emile Zola

1937 · Georges Clemenceau

The Devil Is a Sissy

1936 · Paul Krumpp

Piccadilly Jim

1936 · Herbert Pett

My American Wife

1936 · Robert Cantillon

Parole!

1936 · Marty Crawford

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936 · John Summers, Luxury's Owner

Moonlight Murder

1936 · Paul Adams

The Garden Murder Case

1936 · District Attorney Markham

Next Time We Love

1936 · Michael Jennings

Her Master's Voice

1936 · Horace J. Twilling

A Dream Comes True

1935 · Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1935 · Thomas Hayden

Things You Never See on the Screen

1935 · Self

In Person

1935 · Thaddeus Parks

It's in the Air

1935 · W. R. Gridley

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935 · Egeus

Redheads on Parade

1935 · Minor Role (uncredited)

Broadway Gondolier

1935 · E.V. Richards, Radio Producer

Men Without Names

1935 · Andrew Webster, banker

Traveling Saleslady

1935 · Rufus Twitchell

Straight from the Heart

1935 · Austin

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935 · Louis Lamson

One More Spring

1935 · Henry Sheridan

The Secret Bride

1934 · Willis Martin

365 Nights in Hollywood

1934 · J. Walter Delmar

Gridiron Flash

1934 · Howard Smith

The Case of the Howling Dog

1934 · District Attorney Claude Drumm

One Exciting Adventure

1934 · Fussli

The Cat's-Paw

1934 · Silk Hot McGee

We're Rich Again

1934 · Wilbur Page

Twenty Million Sweethearts

1934 · Sharpe

The Show-Off

1934 · Mr. 'Pa'

The Poor Rich

1934 · Tom Hopkins

Dinner at Eight

1933 · Ed Loomis

Convention City

1933 · J.B. Honeywell

King for a Night

1933 · Rev. John Williams

Shadows of Sing Sing

1933 · Joe Martel

Dancing Lady

1933 · Jasper Bradley Sr.

Wild Boys of the Road

1933 · James Smith

Saturday's Millions

1933 · Ezra Fowler

The Stranger's Return

1933 · Allen

I Love That Man

1933 · Dr. Crittenden - Dentist

Heroes for Sale

1933 · George Gibson

Tomorrow at Seven

1933 · Austin Winters

Lilly Turner

1933 · Dr. Hawley

Central Airport

1933 · Mr. Blaine

Our Betters

1933 · Thornton Clay

He Learned About Women

1933 · Appleby

No Man of Her Own

1932 · Vane

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932 · Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)

If I Had a Million

1932 · Prison Priest (uncredited)

Three on a Match

1932 · Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)

Big City Blues

1932 · Station Agent

A Successful Calamity

1932 · Connors

Week-End Marriage

1932 · Doctor

The Famous Ferguson Case

1932 · Martin Collins

The Star Witness

1931 · Pa Leeds

Man to Man

1930 · Barber John Martin Bolton

The Man from M.A.R.S.

1922 · Arthur Wyman

The Misleading Lady

1916 · Stephen Weatherbee

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