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(126)
Caretaker
1940
Senator MacPherson
1939
Mr. Pilbeam
1939
Reverend Harper
1944
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Prison Priest (uncredited)
1932
Self (archive footage)
1975
Carlson (uncredited)
1945
Al Farrow
1947
John W. Bower
1940
Governor of New Orleans
1940
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
Egeus
1935
Howard Smith
1934
Mr. Goodwin
1942
Dr. Gibbs
1944
Gilbert Wheeler
1942
Jones
1940
House Detective
1945
Georges Clemenceau
1937
George Payne
1941
Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
Silk Hot McGee
1934
Willis Martin
1934
Joshua Mason
1941
Fussli
1934
Ralph Neely
1945
Tom Hopkins
1934
Dr. Kobbe
1940
Appleby
1933
Louis Lamson
1935
John Xerxes Archley
1939
Austin Winters
1933
Mr. Blaine
1933
Warden Alan Parkhurst
1939
Snade
1940
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
1932
Wilbur Page
1934
Dr. Ward
1942
Samuel Breckenbridge
1947
Self
1935
Edgar Holliday
1943
Clayton Potter
1941
Martin Collins
1932
Wayne Clark
1945
Arnold Frayne
1938
District Attorney Claude Drumm
1934
B.L. Faulkin
1938
George Gibson
1933
Walter Sherwood
1942
Homer Henshaw
1946
Mr. Pope
1945
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
1940
District Attorney Markham
1936
Burton Williams
1937
Doctor
1932
Dean Hutchinson
1941
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
1932
Frederick Vantine
1941
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
1935
Dr. Grant
1945
Samuel Breckenridge
1947
J.B. Honeywell
1933
James Smith
1933
Henry Sheridan
1935
J.D. Gibbons
1943
Duke
1938
Rev. John Williams
1933
Rene Salmon
1940
Station Agent
1932
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
1937
Henry Peck
1938
Vane
1932
Mr. Mason
1943
W. R. Gridley
1935
Ernest W. Stanley
1941
Judge
1941
Mr. Aspinwall
1942
Barber John Martin Bolton
1930
Mayor of Pantera
1945
Ed Loomis
1933
Thornton Clay
1933
Mr. Bishop
1941
Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
Dr. Hawley
1933
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
1933
Judge Thaddeus Parks
1935
Jasper Bradley Sr.
1933
Uncle Wallace
1944
Paul Krumpp
1936
Ezra Fowler
1933
Mr. Snell
1938
Mitchell Edwards
1947
Uncle George
1944
Paul Adams
1936
Michael Jennings
1936
Andrew Webster
1935
Wellington Carruthers
1941
Sharpe
1934
Hiram Krispan
1939
Allen
1933
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
1942
Pa Leeds
1931
Thomas Hayden
1935
Passenger with newspaper
1945
Rufus Twitchell
1935
Ernest Headley
1938
Jeweler
1938
J. Walter Delmar
1934
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
1936
Herbert Pett
1936
Judge
1948
Hotel Clerk
1944
Ellsworth T. Banning
1937
Warden
1937
Congressman Crenshaw
1947
Mr. 'Pa'
1934
Stephen Weatherbee
1916
John Quincy Adams
1939
Austin
1935
Connors
1932
Marty Crawford
1936
Arthur Wyman
1922
Arnold Benson
1944
Horace J. Twilling
1936
Robert Cantillon
1936