Grant Mitchell
Acting
- Born:
- 1874-06-17
- Died:
- 1957-05-01
- Place of birth:
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Big Parade of Comedy
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Blondie's Anniversary
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Honeymoon
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Blondie's Holiday
Easy to Wed
Leave Her to Heaven
Guest Wife
Bedside Manner
Conflict
A Medal for Benny
Crime, Inc.
Bring on the Girls
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
And Now Tomorrow
When the Lights Go On Again
The Impatient Years
Arsenic and Old Lace
Step Lively
See Here, Private Hargrove
Dixie
All by Myself
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
My Sister Eileen
Orchestra Wives
Cairo
The Gay Sisters
March On, America!
Meet the Stewarts
Larceny, Inc.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Skylark
One Foot in Heaven
Nothing but the Truth
The Feminine Touch
The Great Lie
The Penalty
Footsteps in the Dark
Tobacco Road
Father Is A Prince
The Bride Wore Crutches
We Who Are Young
My Love Came Back
New Moon
Edison, the Man
It All Came True
The Grapes of Wrath
Castle on the Hudson
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Monroe Doctrine
Hell's Kitchen
On Borrowed Time
6,000 Enemies
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
The Headleys at Home
That Certain Age
Youth Takes a Fling
Reformatory
Women Are Like That
Hollywood Hotel
Lady Behave!
First Lady
The Last Gangster
Music for Madame
The Life of Emile Zola
The Devil Is a Sissy
Piccadilly Jim
My American Wife
Parole!
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Moonlight Murder
The Garden Murder Case
Next Time We Love
Her Master's Voice
A Dream Comes True
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Things You Never See on the Screen
In Person
It's in the Air
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Redheads on Parade
Broadway Gondolier
Men Without Names
Traveling Saleslady
Straight from the Heart
Gold Diggers of 1935
One More Spring
The Secret Bride
365 Nights in Hollywood
Gridiron Flash
The Case of the Howling Dog
One Exciting Adventure
The Cat's-Paw
We're Rich Again
Twenty Million Sweethearts
The Show-Off
The Poor Rich
Dinner at Eight
Convention City
King for a Night
Shadows of Sing Sing
Dancing Lady
Wild Boys of the Road
Saturday's Millions
The Stranger's Return
I Love That Man
Heroes for Sale
Tomorrow at Seven
Lilly Turner
Central Airport
Our Betters
He Learned About Women
No Man of Her Own
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
If I Had a Million
Three on a Match
Big City Blues
A Successful Calamity
Week-End Marriage
The Famous Ferguson Case
The Star Witness
Man to Man
The Man from M.A.R.S.
The Misleading Lady