Actor
· Acting
Grant Mitchell
Born 1874-06-17
Died 1957-05-01
📍 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 128
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Judge
1948
Blondie's Anniversary
as Samuel Breckenbridge
1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Mitchell Edwards
1947
Honeymoon
as Congressman Crenshaw
1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Al Farrow
1947
Blondie's Holiday
as Samuel Breckenridge
1947
Easy to Wed
as Homer Henshaw
1946
Leave Her to Heaven
as Carlson (uncredited)
1945
Guest Wife
as House Detective
1945
Bedside Manner
as Mr. Pope
1945
Conflict
as Dr. Grant
1945
A Medal for Benny
as Mayor of Pantera
1945
Crime, Inc.
as Wayne Clark
1945
Bring on the Girls
as Ralph Neely
1945
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
as Passenger with newspaper
1945
And Now Tomorrow
as Uncle Wallace
1944
When the Lights Go On Again
as Arnold Benson
1944
The Impatient Years
as Hotel Clerk
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Reverend Harper
1944
Step Lively
as Dr. Gibbs
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
as Uncle George
1944
Dixie
as Mr. Mason
1943
All by Myself
as J.D. Gibbons
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
as Edgar Holliday
1943
My Sister Eileen
as Walter Sherwood
1942
Orchestra Wives
as Dr. Ward
1942
Cairo
as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
1942
The Gay Sisters
as Gilbert Wheeler
1942
March On, America!
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
Meet the Stewarts
as Mr. Goodwin
1942
Larceny, Inc.
as Mr. Aspinwall
1942
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Ernest W. Stanley
1941
Skylark
as Frederick Vantine
1941
One Foot in Heaven
as Clayton Potter
1941
Nothing but the Truth
as Mr. Bishop
1941
The Feminine Touch
as Dean Hutchinson
1941
The Great Lie
as Joshua Mason
1941
The Penalty
as Judge
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
as Wellington Carruthers
1941
Tobacco Road
as George Payne
1941
Father Is A Prince
as John W. Bower
1940
The Bride Wore Crutches
as E.J. Randall
1940
We Who Are Young
as Jones
1940
My Love Came Back
as Dr. Kobbe
1940
New Moon
as Governor of New Orleans
1940
Edison, the Man
as Snade
1940
It All Came True
as Rene Salmon
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as Caretaker
1940
Castle on the Hudson
as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
1940
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as John Xerxes Archley
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator MacPherson
1939
The Monroe Doctrine
as John Quincy Adams
1939
Hell's Kitchen
as Hiram Krispan
1939
On Borrowed Time
as Mr. Pilbeam
1939
6,000 Enemies
as Warden Alan Parkhurst
1939
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Henry Peck
1938
The Headleys at Home
as Ernest Headley
1938
That Certain Age
as Jeweler
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
as Duke
1938
Reformatory
as Arnold Frayne
1938
Women Are Like That
as Mr. Snell
1938
Hollywood Hotel
as B.L. Faulkin
1938
Lady Behave!
as Burton Williams
1937
First Lady
as Ellsworth T. Banning
1937
The Last Gangster
as Warden
1937
Music for Madame
as District Attorney Ernest Robinson
1937
The Life of Emile Zola
as Georges Clemenceau
1937
The Devil Is a Sissy
as Paul Krumpp
1936
Piccadilly Jim
as Herbert Pett
1936
My American Wife
as Robert Cantillon
1936
Parole!
as Marty Crawford
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as John Summers, Luxury's Owner
1936
Moonlight Murder
as Paul Adams
1936
The Garden Murder Case
as District Attorney Markham
1936
Next Time We Love
as Michael Jennings
1936
Her Master's Voice
as Horace J. Twilling
1936
A Dream Comes True
as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Thomas Hayden
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
In Person
as Thaddeus Parks
1935
It's in the Air
as W. R. Gridley
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
1935
Redheads on Parade
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
Broadway Gondolier
as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
1935
Men Without Names
as Andrew Webster, banker
1935
Traveling Saleslady
as Rufus Twitchell
1935
Straight from the Heart
as Austin
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Louis Lamson
1935
One More Spring
as Henry Sheridan
1935
The Secret Bride
as Willis Martin
1934
365 Nights in Hollywood
as J. Walter Delmar
1934
Gridiron Flash
as Howard Smith
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
as District Attorney Claude Drumm
1934
One Exciting Adventure
as Fussli
1934
The Cat's-Paw
as Silk Hot McGee
1934
We're Rich Again
as Wilbur Page
1934
Twenty Million Sweethearts
as Sharpe
1934
The Show-Off
as Mr. 'Pa'
1934
The Poor Rich
as Tom Hopkins
1934
Dinner at Eight
as Ed Loomis
1933
Convention City
as J.B. Honeywell
1933
King for a Night
as Rev. John Williams
1933
Shadows of Sing Sing
as Joe Martel
1933
Dancing Lady
as Jasper Bradley Sr.
1933
Wild Boys of the Road
as James Smith
1933
Saturday's Millions
as Ezra Fowler
1933
The Stranger's Return
as Allen
1933
I Love That Man
as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
1933
Heroes for Sale
as George Gibson
1933
Tomorrow at Seven
as Austin Winters
1933
Lilly Turner
as Dr. Hawley
1933
Central Airport
as Mr. Blaine
1933
Our Betters
as Thornton Clay
1933
He Learned About Women
as Appleby
1933
No Man of Her Own
as Vane
1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
1932
If I Had a Million
as Prison Priest (uncredited)
1932
Three on a Match
as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
1932
Big City Blues
as Station Agent
1932
A Successful Calamity
as Connors
1932
Week-End Marriage
as Doctor
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Martin Collins
1932
The Star Witness
as Pa Leeds
1931
Man to Man
as Barber John Martin Bolton
1930
The Man from M.A.R.S.
as Arthur Wyman
1922
The Misleading Lady
as Stephen Weatherbee
1916