Grant Mitchell
from Columbus, Ohio, USA
from 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.
Self (archive footage)
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Judge
Samuel Breckenridge
Al Farrow
Congressman Crenshaw
Mitchell Edwards
Samuel Breckenbridge
Homer Henshaw
Passenger with newspaper
Ralph Neely
Wayne Clark
Mayor of Pantera
Dr. Grant
Mr. Pope
House Detective
Carlson (uncredited)
Uncle George
Dr. Gibbs
Reverend Harper
Hotel Clerk
Arnold Benson
Uncle Wallace
Edgar Holliday
J.D. Gibbons
Mr. Mason
Mr. Aspinwall
Mr. Goodwin
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gilbert Wheeler
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Dr. Ward
Walter Sherwood
George Payne
Wellington Carruthers
Judge
Joshua Mason
Dean Hutchinson
Mr. Bishop
Clayton Potter
Frederick Vantine
Ernest W. Stanley
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
Caretaker
Rene Salmon
Snade
Governor of New Orleans
Dr. Kobbe
Jones
E.J. Randall
John W. Bower
Warden Alan Parkhurst
Mr. Pilbeam
Hiram Krispan
John Quincy Adams
Senator MacPherson
John Archley
B.L. Faulkin
Mr. Snell
Arnold Frayne
Duke
Jeweler
Ernest Headley
Henry Peck
Georges Clemenceau
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
Warden
Ellsworth T. Banning
Burton Williams
Horace J. Twilling
Michael Jennings
District Attorney Markham
Paul Adams
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Marty Crawford
Robert Cantillon
Herbert Pett
Paul Krumpp
Henry Sheridan
Louis Lamson
Austin
Rufus Twitchell
Andrew Webster, banker
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Minor Role (uncredited)
Egeus
W. R. Gridley
Thaddeus Parks
Self
Thomas Hayden
Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Hopkins
Mr. 'Pa'
Sharpe
Wilbur Page
Silk Hot McGee
Fussli
District Attorney Claude Drumm
Howard Smith
J. Walter Delmar
Willis Martin
Appleby
Thornton Clay
Mr. Blaine
Dr. Hawley
Austin Winters
George Gibson
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
Allen
Ezra Fowler
James Smith
Jasper Bradley Sr.
Joe Martel
Rev. John Williams
J.B. Honeywell
Ed Loomis
Martin Collins
Doctor
Connors
Station Agent
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Prison Priest (uncredited)
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
Vane
Pa Leeds
Barber John Martin Bolton
Arthur Wyman
Stephen Weatherbee