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