Grant Mitchell
AKA: John Grant Mitchell Jr.
Birthday: 1874-06-17
Died: 1957-05-01
Birthplace: 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
Character: Reverend Harper
Character: Senator MacPherson
Character: Samuel Breckenridge
Character: Samuel Breckenbridge
Character: Walter Sherwood
Character: Ernest W. Stanley
Character: Silk Hot McGee
Character: Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Character: Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Character: Jasper Bradley Sr.
Character: Governor of New Orleans
Character: Wellington Carruthers
Character: Edgar Holliday
Character: John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Character: Clayton Potter
Character: Dean Hutchinson
Character: Frederick Vantine
Character: Henry Sheridan
Character: Martin Collins
Character: Michael Jennings
Character: Ellsworth T. Banning
Character: District Attorney Markham
Character: John Quincy Adams
Character: District Attorney Claude Drumm
Character: Mayor of Pantera
Character: House Detective
Character: Mitchell Edwards
Character: Austin Winters
Character: Barber John Martin Bolton
Character: Robert Cantillon
Character: Burton Williams
Character: J.B. Honeywell
Character: Congressman Crenshaw
Character: J. Walter Delmar
Character: Warden Alan Parkhurst
Character: Judge Thaddeus Parks
Character: Carlson (uncredited)
Character: E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Character: Andrew Webster
Character: Rev. John Williams
Character: Horace J. Twilling
Character: John Xerxes Archley
Character: Rufus Twitchell
Character: Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
Character: Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
Character: Marty Crawford
Character: Gilbert Wheeler
Character: Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
Character: Georges Clemenceau
Character: District Attorney Ernest Robinson
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Character: Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Passenger with newspaper
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Prison Priest (uncredited)
Character: John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Ernest Headley
Character: Stephen Weatherbee
Character: 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)