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