Grant Mitchell
Biography
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.
Acting (126 movies)
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
Blondie's Holiday
1947
My Sister Eileen
1942
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Conflict
1945
Reformatory
1938
The Last Gangster
1937
Crime, Inc.
1945
No Man of Her Own
1932
The Cat's-Paw
1934
Three on a Match
1932
Cairo
1942
Step Lively
1944
New Moon
1940
Dancing Lady
1933
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Straight from the Heart
1935
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
It All Came True
1940
Tobacco Road
1941
Heroes for Sale
1933
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
Larceny, Inc.
1942
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
The Star Witness
1931
One Foot in Heaven
1941
The Feminine Touch
1941
Lilly Turner
1933
Skylark
1941
Nothing But the Truth
1941
Meet the Stewarts
1942
One More Spring
1935
The Misleading Lady
1916
Central Airport
1933
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
Next Time We Love
1936
First Lady
1937
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
The Garden Murder Case
1936
A Medal for Benny
1945
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
Guest Wife
1945
And Now Tomorrow
1944
When the Lights Go On Again
1944
A Successful Calamity
1932
Week-End Marriage
1932
Big City Blues
1932
Father Is A Prince
1940
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Piccadilly Jim
1936
The Secret Bride
1934
Tomorrow at Seven
1933
The Impatient Years
1944
Our Betters
1933
Man to Man
1930
My American Wife
1936
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
Hell's Kitchen
1939
The Poor Rich
1934
Moonlight Murder
1936
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
My Love Came Back
1940
Lady Behave!
1937
We're Rich Again
1934
Gridiron Flash
1934
Women Are Like That
1938
Convention City
1933
On Borrowed Time
1939
Honeymoon
1947
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934
6,000 Enemies
1939
In Person
1935
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
The Stranger's Return
1933
Dinner at Eight
1933
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
Broadway Gondolier
1935
The Show-Off
1934
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Dixie
1943
Men Without Names
1935
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
King for a Night
1933
Her Master's Voice
1936
The Penalty
1941
One Exciting Adventure
1934
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
Traveling Saleslady
1935
I Love That Man
1933
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
The Great Lie
1941
Edison, the Man
1940
Parole!
1936
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