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
Reverend Harper
Arsenic and Old Lace
Caretaker
The Grapes of Wrath
Senator MacPherson
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Samuel Breckenbridge
Blondie's Anniversary
Samuel Breckenridge
Blondie's Holiday
Walter Sherwood
My Sister Eileen
Ernest W. Stanley
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Dr. Grant
Conflict
Arnold Frayne
Reformatory
Warden
The Last Gangster
Wayne Clark
Crime, Inc.
Vane
No Man of Her Own
Silk Hot McGee
The Cat's-Paw
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Three on a Match
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Cairo
Dr. Gibbs
Step Lively
Governor of New Orleans
New Moon
Jasper Bradley Sr.
Dancing Lady
B.L. Faulkin
Hollywood Hotel
Wellington Carruthers
Footsteps in the Dark
Austin
Straight from the Heart
Edgar Holliday
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Rene Salmon
It All Came True
George Payne
Tobacco Road
George Gibson
Heroes for Sale
Egeus
A Midsummer Night's Dream
James Smith
Wild Boys of the Road
Mr. Aspinwall
Larceny, Inc.
Al Farrow
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Pa Leeds
The Star Witness
Clayton Potter
One Foot in Heaven
Dean Hutchinson
The Feminine Touch
Dr. Hawley
Lilly Turner
Frederick Vantine
Skylark
Mr. Bishop
Nothing But the Truth
Mr. Goodwin
Meet the Stewarts
Henry Sheridan
One More Spring
Stephen Weatherbee
The Misleading Lady
Mr. Blaine
Central Airport
Martin Collins
The Famous Ferguson Case
Michael Jennings
Next Time We Love
Ellsworth T. Banning
First Lady
John Quincy Adams
The Monroe Doctrine
District Attorney Markham
The Garden Murder Case
Mayor of Pantera
A Medal for Benny
District Attorney Claude Drumm
The Case of the Howling Dog
House Detective
Guest Wife
Uncle Wallace
And Now Tomorrow
Arnold Benson
When the Lights Go On Again
Connors
A Successful Calamity
Doctor
Week-End Marriage
Station Agent
Big City Blues
John W. Bower
Father Is A Prince
Mitchell Edwards
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Herbert Pett
Piccadilly Jim
Willis Martin
The Secret Bride
Austin Winters
Tomorrow at Seven
Hotel Clerk
The Impatient Years
Thornton Clay
Our Betters
Barber John Martin Bolton
Man to Man
Robert Cantillon
My American Wife
Thomas Hayden
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Hiram Krispan
Hell's Kitchen
Tom Hopkins
The Poor Rich
Paul Adams
Moonlight Murder
Henry Peck
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Dr. Kobbe
My Love Came Back
Burton Williams
Lady Behave!
Wilbur Page
We're Rich Again
Howard Smith
Gridiron Flash
Mr. Snell
Women Are Like That
J.B. Honeywell
Convention City
Mr. Pilbeam
On Borrowed Time
Congressman Crenshaw
Honeymoon
J. Walter Delmar
365 Nights in Hollywood
Warden Alan Parkhurst
6,000 Enemies
Thaddeus Parks
In Person
Paul Krumpp
The Devil Is a Sissy
Allen
The Stranger's Return
Ed Loomis
Dinner at Eight
Carlson (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
Sharpe
Twenty Million Sweethearts
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Broadway Gondolier
Mr. 'Pa'
The Show-Off
Duke
Youth Takes a Fling
Mr. Mason
Dixie
Andrew Webster, banker
Men Without Names
Judge
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Rev. John Williams
King for a Night
Horace J. Twilling
Her Master's Voice
Judge
The Penalty
Fussli
One Exciting Adventure
John Xerxes Archley
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Rufus Twitchell
Traveling Saleslady
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
I Love That Man
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Joshua Mason
The Great Lie
Snade
Edison, the Man
Marty Crawford
Parole!
J.D. Gibbons
All by Myself
Jones
We Who Are Young
Gilbert Wheeler
The Gay Sisters
Appleby
He Learned About Women
Dr. Ward
Orchestra Wives
W. R. Gridley
It's in the Air
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
Castle on the Hudson
Jeweler
That Certain Age
Georges Clemenceau
The Life of Emile Zola
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
Music for Madame
Homer Henshaw
Easy to Wed
Ralph Neely
Bring on the Girls
Minor Role (uncredited)
Redheads on Parade
Passenger with newspaper
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Dream Comes True
Self
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Ezra Fowler
Saturday's Millions
Uncle George
See Here, Private Hargrove
Louis Lamson
Gold Diggers of 1935
Prison Priest (uncredited)
If I Had a Million
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
March On, America!
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Mr. Pope
Bedside Manner
Arthur Wyman
The Man from M.A.R.S.
Ernest Headley
The Headleys at Home
Joe Martel
Shadows of Sing Sing
E.J. Randall
The Bride Wore Crutches
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
128
Gender
Male
Birthday
1874-06-17
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
John Grant Mitchell Jr.