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