Grant Mitchell
Acting
1874-06-17 · 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.
Filmography
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Movie
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948 · Movie
Blondie's Anniversary
1947 · Movie
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Movie
Honeymoon
1947 · Movie
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947 · Movie
Blondie's Holiday
1947 · Movie
Easy to Wed
1946 · Movie
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · Movie
Guest Wife
1945 · Movie
Bedside Manner
1945 · Movie
Conflict
1945 · Movie
A Medal for Benny
1945 · Movie
Crime, Inc.
1945 · Movie
Bring on the Girls
1945 · Movie
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945 · Movie
And Now Tomorrow
1944 · Movie
When the Lights Go On Again
1944 · Movie
The Impatient Years
1944 · Movie
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Movie
Step Lively
1944 · Movie
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944 · Movie
Dixie
1943 · Movie
All by Myself
1943 · Movie
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie
My Sister Eileen
1942 · Movie
Orchestra Wives
1942 · Movie
Cairo
1942 · Movie
The Gay Sisters
1942 · Movie
March On, America!
1942 · Movie
Meet the Stewarts
1942 · Movie
Larceny, Inc.
1942 · Movie
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Movie
Skylark
1941 · Movie
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Movie
Nothing but the Truth
1941 · Movie
The Feminine Touch
1941 · Movie
The Great Lie
1941 · Movie
The Penalty
1941 · Movie
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · Movie
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie
Father Is A Prince
1940 · Movie
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940 · Movie
We Who Are Young
1940 · Movie
My Love Came Back
1940 · Movie
New Moon
1940 · Movie
Edison, the Man
1940 · Movie
It All Came True
1940 · Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · Movie
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 · Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Movie
The Monroe Doctrine
1939 · Movie
Hell's Kitchen
1939 · Movie
On Borrowed Time
1939 · Movie
6,000 Enemies
1939 · Movie
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938 · Movie
The Headleys at Home
1938 · Movie
That Certain Age
1938 · Movie
Youth Takes a Fling
1938 · Movie
Reformatory
1938 · Movie
Women Are Like That
1938 · Movie
Hollywood Hotel
1938 · Movie
Lady Behave!
1937 · Movie
First Lady
1937 · Movie
The Last Gangster
1937 · Movie
Music for Madame
1937 · Movie
The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Movie
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936 · Movie
Piccadilly Jim
1936 · Movie
My American Wife
1936 · Movie
Parole!
1936 · Movie
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · Movie
Moonlight Murder
1936 · Movie
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Movie
Next Time We Love
1936 · Movie
Her Master's Voice
1936 · Movie
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Movie
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935 · Movie
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Movie
In Person
1935 · Movie
It's in the Air
1935 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · Movie
Redheads on Parade
1935 · Movie
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · Movie
Men Without Names
1935 · Movie
Traveling Saleslady
1935 · Movie
Straight from the Heart
1935 · Movie
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Movie
One More Spring
1935 · Movie
The Secret Bride
1934 · Movie
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · Movie
Gridiron Flash
1934 · Movie
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934 · Movie
One Exciting Adventure
1934 · Movie
The Cat's-Paw
1934 · Movie
We're Rich Again
1934 · Movie
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934 · Movie
The Show-Off
1934 · Movie
The Poor Rich
1934 · Movie
Dinner at Eight
1933 · Movie
Convention City
1933 · Movie
King for a Night
1933 · Movie
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933 · Movie
Dancing Lady
1933 · Movie
Wild Boys of the Road
1933 · Movie
Saturday's Millions
1933 · Movie
The Stranger's Return
1933 · Movie
I Love That Man
1933 · Movie
Heroes for Sale
1933 · Movie
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Movie
Lilly Turner
1933 · Movie
Central Airport
1933 · Movie
Our Betters
1933 · Movie
He Learned About Women
1933 · Movie
No Man of Her Own
1932 · Movie
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 · Movie
If I Had a Million
1932 · Movie
Three on a Match
1932 · Movie
Big City Blues
1932 · Movie
A Successful Calamity
1932 · Movie
Week-End Marriage
1932 · Movie
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932 · Movie
The Star Witness
1931 · Movie
Man to Man
1930 · Movie
The Man from M.A.R.S.
1922 · Movie
The Misleading Lady
1916 · Movie