Grant Mitchell
Acting
Born June 17, 1874 ยท Columbus, Ohio, USA
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.
Films (128)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Honeymoon
1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
Blondie's Holiday
1947
Easy to Wed
1946
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Guest Wife
1945
Bedside Manner
1945
Conflict
1945
A Medal for Benny
1945
Crime, Inc.
1945
Bring on the Girls
1945
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
And Now Tomorrow
1944
When the Lights Go On Again
1944
The Impatient Years
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Step Lively
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
Dixie
1943
All by Myself
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
My Sister Eileen
1942
Orchestra Wives
1942
Cairo
1942
The Gay Sisters
1942
March On, America!
1942
Meet the Stewarts
1942
Larceny, Inc.
1942
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Skylark
1941
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Nothing but the Truth
1941
The Feminine Touch
1941
The Great Lie
1941
The Penalty
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Tobacco Road
1941
Father Is A Prince
1940
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940
We Who Are Young
1940
My Love Came Back
1940
New Moon
1940
Edison, the Man
1940
It All Came True
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Castle on the Hudson
1940
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
Hell's Kitchen
1939
On Borrowed Time
1939
6,000 Enemies
1939
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
The Headleys at Home
1938
That Certain Age
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Reformatory
1938
Women Are Like That
1938
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Lady Behave!
1937
First Lady
1937
The Last Gangster
1937
Music for Madame
1937
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Piccadilly Jim
1936
My American Wife
1936
Parole!
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
Moonlight Murder
1936
The Garden Murder Case
1936
Next Time We Love
1936
Her Master's Voice
1936
A Dream Comes True
1935
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
In Person
1935
It's in the Air
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
Redheads on Parade
1935
Broadway Gondolier
1935
Men Without Names
1935
Traveling Saleslady
1935
Straight from the Heart
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
One More Spring
1935
The Secret Bride
1934
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934
Gridiron Flash
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
One Exciting Adventure
1934
The Cat's-Paw
1934
We're Rich Again
1934
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
The Show-Off
1934
The Poor Rich
1934
Dinner at Eight
1933
Convention City
1933
King for a Night
1933
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
Dancing Lady
1933
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
Saturday's Millions
1933
The Stranger's Return
1933
I Love That Man
1933
Heroes for Sale
1933
Tomorrow at Seven
1933
Lilly Turner
1933
Central Airport
1933
Our Betters
1933
He Learned About Women
1933
No Man of Her Own
1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
If I Had a Million
1932
Three on a Match
1932
Big City Blues
1932
A Successful Calamity
1932
Week-End Marriage
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
The Star Witness
1931
Man to Man
1930
The Man from M.A.R.S.
1922
The Misleading Lady
1916