Grant Mitchell
Known for: Acting
Born: June 17, 1874
Died: May 1, 1957
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
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6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
7.2
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
4.2
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
5.9
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
6.5
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
6.5
Honeymoon
1947
7.1
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
6.6
Blondie's Holiday
1947
6.4
Easy to Wed
1946
7.5
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
6.2
Guest Wife
1945
5.9
Bedside Manner
1945
6.7
Conflict
1945
5.6
A Medal for Benny
1945
4.8
Crime, Inc.
1945
6.3
Bring on the Girls
1945
5.4
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
6.0
And Now Tomorrow
1944
6.0
When the Lights Go On Again
1944
6.5
The Impatient Years
1944
7.6
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
6.7
Step Lively
1944
6.5
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
5.0
Dixie
1943
8.0
All by Myself
1943
6.7
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
6.8
My Sister Eileen
1942
6.5
Orchestra Wives
1942
6.3
Cairo
1942
6.6
The Gay Sisters
1942
5.5
March On, America!
1942
5.5
Meet the Stewarts
1942
7.1
Larceny, Inc.
1942
7.0
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
6.8
Skylark
1941
6.9
One Foot in Heaven
1941
7.3
Nothing but the Truth
1941
5.1
The Feminine Touch
1941
7.0
The Great Lie
1941
7.4
The Penalty
1941
7.0
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
6.8
Tobacco Road
1941
6.5
Father Is A Prince
1940
7.0
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940
6.3
We Who Are Young
1940
4.9
My Love Came Back
1940
6.9
New Moon
1940
6.8
Edison, the Man
1940
5.8
It All Came True
1940
7.8
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
7.0
Castle on the Hudson
1940
6.1
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
7.8
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
7.0
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
6.8
Hell's Kitchen
1939
7.6
On Borrowed Time
1939
6.1
6,000 Enemies
1939
5.4
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
10.0
The Headleys at Home
1938
5.5
That Certain Age
1938
5.5
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
6.5
Reformatory
1938
6.8
Women Are Like That
1938
5.8
Hollywood Hotel
1938
4.8
Lady Behave!
1937
6.6
First Lady
1937
6.4
The Last Gangster
1937
6.3
Music for Madame
1937
6.7
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
7.0
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
6.8
Piccadilly Jim
1936
7.5
My American Wife
1936
7.0
Parole!
1936
6.2
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
4.8
Moonlight Murder
1936
5.7
The Garden Murder Case
1936
6.4
Next Time We Love
1936
6.5
Her Master's Voice
1936
6.3
A Dream Comes True
1935
6.9
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
5.3
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
6.8
In Person
1935
6.3
It's in the Air
1935
6.4
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
9.0
Redheads on Parade
1935
6.0
Broadway Gondolier
1935
6.3
Men Without Names
1935
6.1
Traveling Saleslady
1935
9.0
Straight from the Heart
1935
6.5
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
6.2
One More Spring
1935
6.2
The Secret Bride
1934
9.0
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934
4.8
Gridiron Flash
1934
6.3
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
8.0
One Exciting Adventure
1934
6.3
The Cat's-Paw
1934
6.2
We're Rich Again
1934
6.6
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
6.3
The Show-Off
1934
8.0
The Poor Rich
1934
6.8
Dinner at Eight
1933
4.2
Convention City
1933
7.2
King for a Night
1933
7.0
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
6.9
Dancing Lady
1933
6.8
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
7.0
Saturday's Millions
1933
6.2
The Stranger's Return
1933
10.0
I Love That Man
1933
7.1
Heroes for Sale
1933
6.2
Tomorrow at Seven
1933
5.5
Lilly Turner
1933
6.0
Central Airport
1933
5.4
Our Betters
1933
10.0
He Learned About Women
1933
6.5
No Man of Her Own
1932
6.4
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
6.5
If I Had a Million
1932
6.3
Three on a Match
1932
5.9
Big City Blues
1932
5.6
A Successful Calamity
1932
5.5
Week-End Marriage
1932
6.6
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
6.9
The Star Witness
1931
6.2
Man to Man
1930
7.0
The Man from M.A.R.S.
1922
NR
The Misleading Lady
1916