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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
June 17, 1874Deathday
May 1, 1957Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
127Place of birth
Columbus, Ohio, USAAlso known as
John Grant Mitchell Jr., Грант Митчелл
Cast credits
Arsenic and Old Lace
Reverend Harper
The Grapes of Wrath
Caretaker
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Senator MacPherson
Blondie's Holiday
Samuel Breckenridge
Blondie's Anniversary
Samuel Breckenbridge
My Sister Eileen
Walter Sherwood
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Ernest W. Stanley
Conflict
Dr. Grant
The Last Gangster
Warden
Crime, Inc.
Wayne Clark
The Cat's-Paw
Silk Hot McGee
No Man of Her Own
Charlie Vane
Three on a Match
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Cairo
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Step Lively
Dr. Gibbs
Dancing Lady
Jasper Bradley Sr.
New Moon
Governor of New Orleans
Hollywood Hotel
B.L. Faulkin
Footsteps in the Dark
Wellington Carruthers
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Edgar Holliday
It All Came True
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