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