Grant Mitchell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

127

Gender

Male

Birthday

1874-06-17

Deathday

1957-05-01 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

  • John Grant Mitchell Jr.
  • Грант Митчелл

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

The Grapes of Wrath
7.8%

The Grapes of Wrath

Mar 15, 1940

Arsenic and Old Lace
7.6%

Arsenic and Old Lace

Sep 1, 1944

Leave Her to Heaven
7.4%

Leave Her to Heaven

Dec 25, 1945

The Life of Emile Zola
6.6%

The Life of Emile Zola

Sep 9, 1937

Dinner at Eight
6.7%

Dinner at Eight

Dec 22, 1933

Three on a Match
6.3%

Three on a Match

Oct 29, 1932

Conflict
6.5%

Conflict

Jun 15, 1945

Tobacco Road
6.7%

Tobacco Road

Feb 20, 1941

Gold Diggers of 1935
6.4%

Gold Diggers of 1935

Mar 15, 1935

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Acting

1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy as (archive footage)
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1948
Who Killed Doc Robbin? as Judge
1947
Blondie's Anniversary as Samuel Breckenbridge
1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Mitchell Edwards
1947
Honeymoon as Congressman Crenshaw
1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue as Al Farrow
1947
Blondie's Holiday as Samuel Breckenridge
1946
Easy to Wed as Homer Henshaw
1945
Leave Her to Heaven as Carlson (uncredited)
1945
Guest Wife as House Detective
1945
Her Favorite Patient as Mr. Pope
1945
Conflict as Dr. Grant
1945
A Medal for Benny as Mayor of Pantera
1945
Crime, Inc. as Wayne Clark
1945
Bring on the Girls as Ralph Neely
1945
Watchtower Over Tomorrow as Passenger with newspaper
1944
And Now Tomorrow as Uncle Wallace
1944
When the Lights Go On Again as Arnold Benson
1944
The Impatient Years as Hotel Clerk
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace as Reverend Harper
1944
Step Lively as Dr. Gibbs
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove as Uncle George
1943
Dixie as Mr. Mason
1943
All by Myself as J.D. Gibbons
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday as Edgar Holliday
1942
My Sister Eileen as Walter Sherwood
1942
Orchestra Wives as Dr. Ward
1942
Cairo as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
1942
The Gay Sisters as Gilbert Wheeler
1942
March On, America! as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
Meet the Stewarts as Mr. Goodwin
1942
Larceny, Inc. as Mr. Aspinwall
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner as Ernest W. Stanley
1941
Skylark as Frederick Vantine
1941
One Foot in Heaven as Clayton Potter
1941
Nothing But the Truth as Mr. Bishop
1941
The Feminine Touch as Dean Hutchinson
1941
The Great Lie as Joshua Mason
1941
The Penalty as Judge
1941
Footsteps in the Dark as Wellington Carruthers
1941
Tobacco Road as George Payne
1940
Father Is A Prince as John W. Bower
1940
We Who Are Young as Jones
1940
My Love Came Back as Dr. Kobbe
1940
New Moon as Governor of New Orleans
1940
Edison, the Man as Snade
1940
It All Came True as Rene Salmon
1940
The Grapes of Wrath as Caretaker
1940
Castle on the Hudson as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare as John Xerxes Archley
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Senator MacPherson
1939
The Monroe Doctrine as John Quincy Adams
1939
Hell's Kitchen as Hiram Krispan
1939
On Borrowed Time as Mr. Pilbeam
1939
6,000 Enemies as Warden Alan Parkhurst
1938
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus as Henry Peck
1938
The Headleys at Home as Ernest Headley
1938
That Certain Age as Jeweler
1938
Youth Takes a Fling as Duke
1938
Reformatory as Arnold Frayne
1938
Women Are Like That as Mr. Snell
1938
Hollywood Hotel as B.L. Faulkin
1937
Lady Behave! as Burton Williams
1937
First Lady as Ellsworth T. Banning
1937
The Last Gangster as Warden
1937
Music for Madame as District Attorney Ernest Robinson
1937
The Life of Emile Zola as Georges Clemenceau
1936
The Devil Is a Sissy as Paul Krumpp
1936
Piccadilly Jim as Herbert Pett
1936
My American Wife as Robert Cantillon
1936
Parole! as Marty Crawford
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford as John Summers, Luxury's Owner
1936
Moonlight Murder as Paul Adams
1936
The Garden Murder Case as District Attorney Markham
1936
Next Time We Love as Michael Jennings
1936
Her Master's Voice as Horace J. Twilling
1935
A Dream Comes True as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
Seven Keys to Baldpate as Thomas Hayden
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
1935
In Person as Judge Thaddeus Parks
1935
It's in the Air as W. R. Gridley
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream as Egeus
1935
Redheads on Parade as Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
Broadway Gondolier as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
1935
Men Without Names as Andrew Webster
1935
Traveling Saleslady as Rufus Twitchell
1935
Straight from the Heart as Austin
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935 as Louis Lamson
1935
One More Spring as Henry Sheridan
1934
The Secret Bride as Willis Martin
1934
365 Nights in Hollywood as J. Walter Delmar
1934
Gridiron Flash as Howard Smith
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog as District Attorney Claude Drumm
1934
One Exciting Adventure as Fussli
1934
The Cat's-Paw as Silk Hot McGee
1934
We're Rich Again as Wilbur Page
1934
Twenty Million Sweethearts as Sharpe
1934
The Show-Off as Mr. 'Pa'
1934
The Poor Rich as Tom Hopkins
1933
Dinner at Eight as Ed Loomis
1933
Convention City as J.B. Honeywell
1933
King for a Night as Rev. John Williams
1933
Dancing Lady as Jasper Bradley Sr.
1933
Wild Boys of the Road as James Smith
1933
Saturday's Millions as Ezra Fowler
1933
The Stranger's Return as Allen
1933
I Love That Man as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
1933
Heroes for Sale as George Gibson
1933
Tomorrow at Seven as Austin Winters
1933
Lilly Turner as Dr. Hawley
1933
Central Airport as Mr. Blaine
1933
Our Betters as Thornton Clay
1933
He Learned About Women as Appleby
1932
No Man of Her Own as Charlie Vane
1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
1932
If I Had a Million as Prison Priest
1932
Three on a Match as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
1932
Big City Blues as Station Agent
1932
A Successful Calamity as Connors
1932
Week-End Marriage as Doctor
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case as Martin Collins
1931
The Star Witness as Pa Leeds
1930
Man to Man as Barber John Martin Bolton
1922
The Man from M.A.R.S. as Arthur Wyman
1916
The Misleading Lady as Stephen Weatherbee
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