Grant Mitchell
Acting
🎂 1874-06-17
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.
Cast credits(127)
Carlson (uncredited)
1945
Mr. Pilbeam
1939
Mr. Bishop
1941
Reverend Harper
1944
Senator MacPherson
1939
Self (archive footage)
1975
Caretaker
1940
Georges Clemenceau
1937
Dr. Grant
1945
Joshua Mason
1941
Egeus
1935
Ed Loomis
1933
Jasper Bradley Sr.
1933
Al Farrow
1947
Thornton Clay
1933
Prison Priest (uncredited)
1932
Ernest W. Stanley
1941
Mayor of Pantera
1945
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
1932
Louis Lamson
1935
Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
1932
Martin Collins
1932
Willis Martin
1934
Governor of New Orleans
1940
Frederick Vantine
1941
John Xerxes Archley
1939
George Payne
1941
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Jones
1940
Uncle Wallace
1944
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
1942
Wayne Clark
1945
Snade
1940
Andrew Webster
1935
Walter Sherwood
1942
W. R. Gridley
1935
District Attorney Claude Drumm
1934
Paul Krumpp
1936
Hotel Clerk
1944
Edgar Holliday
1943
Judge
1948
John W. Bower
1940
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
1935
Burton Williams
1937
Dr. Kobbe
1940
Judge Thaddeus Parks
1935
B.L. Faulkin
1938
Fussli
1934
Silk Hot McGee
1934
Warden
1937
Vane
1932
George Gibson
1933
Herbert Pett
1936
James Smith
1933
Mr. Mason
1943
District Attorney Markham
1936
Clayton Potter
1941
Uncle George
1944
Dr. Gibbs
1944
Mr. Goodwin
1942
House Detective
1945
Mr. Pope
1945
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
1933
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
1940
Tom Hopkins
1934
Hiram Krispan
1939
Congressman Crenshaw
1947
Austin
1935
'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Austin Winters
1933
Gilbert Wheeler
1942
Samuel Breckenridge
1947
Rene Salmon
1940
Dr. Ward
1942
Homer Henshaw
1946
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
1936
J.B. Honeywell
1933
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
1937
Henry Sheridan
1935
Dr. Hawley
1933
Dean Hutchinson
1941
Mr. Aspinwall
1942
John Quincy Adams
1939
Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
Ellsworth T. Banning
1937
Michael Jennings
1936
Samuel Breckenbridge
1947
Wellington Carruthers
1941
Connors
1932
Mr. Snell
1938
Jeweler
1938
Appleby
1933
Station Agent
1932
Robert Cantillon
1936
Sharpe
1934
Marty Crawford
1936
Doctor
1932
Judge
1941
Mr. Blaine
1933
Rev. John Williams
1933
Duke
1938
Passenger with newspaper
1945
Mr. 'Pa'
1934
Paul Adams
1936
Howard Smith
1934
Self
1935
Pa Leeds
1931
Mitchell Edwards
1947
J.D. Gibbons
1943
Warden Alan Parkhurst
1939
Ralph Neely
1945
Horace J. Twilling
1936
Ezra Fowler
1933
Rufus Twitchell
1935
Thomas Hayden
1935
Stephen Weatherbee
1916
Allen
1933
J. Walter Delmar
1934
Henry Peck
1938
Arthur Wyman
1922
Arnold Frayne
1938
Wilbur Page
1934
Arnold Benson
1944
Ernest Headley
1938
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
Barber John Martin Bolton
1930