Grant Mitchell
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.
128 acting credits
Acting · 128
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Dinner at Eight
1933
Tobacco Road
1941
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
Dancing Lady
1933
If I Had a Million
1932
Three on a Match
1932
Castle on the Hudson
1940
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
Crime, Inc.
1945
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
Edison, the Man
1940
Nothing but the Truth
1941
Conflict
1945
It All Came True
1940
Big City Blues
1932
The Great Lie
1941
The Feminine Touch
1941
That Certain Age
1938
The Gay Sisters
1942
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Orchestra Wives
1942
Parole!
1936
The Secret Bride
1934
And Now Tomorrow
1944
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
On Borrowed Time
1939
My Sister Eileen
1942
The Star Witness
1931
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
Our Betters
1933
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
My Love Came Back
1940
Larceny, Inc.
1942
Saturday's Millions
1933
First Lady
1937
In Person
1935
Heroes for Sale
1933
No Man of Her Own
1932
The Stranger's Return
1933
Music for Madame
1937
Bedside Manner
1945
The Last Gangster
1937
I Love That Man
1933
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
Piccadilly Jim
1936
Hell's Kitchen
1939
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Traveling Saleslady
1935
Cairo
1942
Redheads on Parade
1935
Central Airport
1933
Meet the Stewarts
1942
Easy to Wed
1946
Honeymoon
1947
A Successful Calamity
1932
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
We Who Are Young
1940
Straight from the Heart
1935
Women Are Like That
1938
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Her Master's Voice
1936
It's in the Air
1935
One More Spring
1935
We're Rich Again
1934
He Learned About Women
1933
Dixie
1943
Broadway Gondolier
1935
Bring on the Girls
1945
A Dream Comes True
1935
A Medal for Benny
1945
The Headleys at Home
1938
Lady Behave!
1937
Next Time We Love
1936
The Cat's-Paw
1934
Father Is A Prince
1940
Lilly Turner
1933
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
One Exciting Adventure
1934
6,000 Enemies
1939
The Penalty
1941
Week-End Marriage
1932
Step Lively
1944
New Moon
1940
The Man from M.A.R.S.
1922
Guest Wife
1945
King for a Night
1933
The Garden Murder Case
1936
Gridiron Flash
1934
The Impatient Years
1944
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Men Without Names
1935
Blondie's Holiday
1947
Skylark
1941
All by Myself
1943
Convention City
1933
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
The Misleading Lady
1916
The Poor Rich
1934
Reformatory
1938
My American Wife
1936
Moonlight Murder
1936
Man to Man
1930
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
Tomorrow at Seven
1933
When the Lights Go On Again
1944
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
March On, America!
1942
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940
The Show-Off
1934