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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 17, 1874
Died
May 1, 1957
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- John Grant Mitchell Jr.
- Грант Митчелл
Grant Mitchell
0.6 Popularity
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
6.1
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
6.3
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
3.6
Judge
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
5.6
Samuel Breckenbridge
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
5.7
Mitchell Edwards
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
6.4
Congressman Crenshaw
Honeymoon
1947
7.0
Al Farrow
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
6.0
Samuel Breckenridge
Blondie's Holiday
1947
6.2
Homer Henshaw
Easy to Wed
1946
7.4
Carlson (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Credits
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
6.3
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Judge
1948
3.6
Blondie's Anniversary
as Samuel Breckenbridge
1947
5.6
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Mitchell Edwards
1947
5.7
Honeymoon
as Congressman Crenshaw
1947
6.4
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Al Farrow
1947
7.0
Blondie's Holiday
as Samuel Breckenridge
1947
6.0
Easy to Wed
as Homer Henshaw
1946
6.2
Leave Her to Heaven
as Carlson (uncredited)
1945
7.4
Guest Wife
as House Detective
1945
6.0
Bedside Manner
as Mr. Pope
1945
5.7
Conflict
as Dr. Grant
1945
6.6
A Medal for Benny
as Mayor of Pantera
1945
4.5
Crime, Inc.
as Wayne Clark
1945
4.2
Bring on the Girls
as Ralph Neely
1945
6.1
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
as Passenger with newspaper
1945
5.0
And Now Tomorrow
as Uncle Wallace
1944
5.7
When the Lights Go On Again
as Arnold Benson
1944
5.5
The Impatient Years
as Hotel Clerk
1944
6.3
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Reverend Harper
1944
7.6
Step Lively
as Dr. Gibbs
1944
6.0
See Here, Private Hargrove
as Uncle George
1944
6.0
Dixie
as Mr. Mason
1943
3.0
All by Myself
as J.D. Gibbons
1943
0.0
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
as Edgar Holliday
1943
6.7
My Sister Eileen
as Walter Sherwood
1942
6.8
Orchestra Wives
as Dr. Ward
1942
6.3
Cairo
as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
1942
5.8
The Gay Sisters
as Gilbert Wheeler
1942
6.5
March On, America!
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
4.8
Meet the Stewarts
as Mr. Goodwin
1942
4.3
Larceny, Inc.
as Mr. Aspinwall
1942
7.0
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Ernest W. Stanley
1941
6.9
Skylark
as Frederick Vantine
1941
6.5
One Foot in Heaven
as Clayton Potter
1941
6.6
Nothing But the Truth
as Mr. Bishop
1941
7.1
The Feminine Touch
as Dean Hutchinson
1941
4.6
The Great Lie
as Joshua Mason
1941
6.9
The Penalty
as Judge
1941
6.0
Footsteps in the Dark
as Wellington Carruthers
1941
6.9
Tobacco Road
as George Payne
1941
6.6
Father Is A Prince
as John W. Bower
1940
5.0
We Who Are Young
as Jones
1940
5.8
My Love Came Back
as Dr. Kobbe
1940
4.6
New Moon
as Governor of New Orleans
1940
6.5
Edison, the Man
as Snade
1940
6.8
It All Came True
as Rene Salmon
1940
5.8
The Grapes of Wrath
as Caretaker
1940
7.8
Castle on the Hudson
as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
1940
6.8
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as John Xerxes Archley
1939
5.6
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator MacPherson
1939
7.8
The Monroe Doctrine
as John Quincy Adams
1939
6.7
Hell's Kitchen
as Hiram Krispan
1939
6.2
On Borrowed Time
as Mr. Pilbeam
1939
7.5
6,000 Enemies
as Warden Alan Parkhurst
1939
6.0
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Henry Peck
1938
4.8
The Headleys at Home
as Ernest Headley
1938
0.0
That Certain Age
as Jeweler
1938
5.1
Youth Takes a Fling
as Duke
1938
1.0
Reformatory
as Arnold Frayne
1938
6.0
Women Are Like That
as Mr. Snell
1938
5.7
Hollywood Hotel
as B.L. Faulkin
1938
5.4
Lady Behave!
as Burton Williams
1937
4.5
First Lady
as Ellsworth T. Banning
1937
6.2
The Last Gangster
as Warden
1937
6.4
Music for Madame
as District Attorney Ernest Robinson
1937
5.0
The Life of Emile Zola
as Georges Clemenceau
1937
6.7
The Devil Is a Sissy
as Paul Krumpp
1936
6.9
Piccadilly Jim
as Herbert Pett
1936
6.5
My American Wife
as Robert Cantillon
1936
0.0
Parole!
as Marty Crawford
1936
6.0
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as John Summers, Luxury's Owner
1936
6.2
Moonlight Murder
as Paul Adams
1936
4.2
The Garden Murder Case
as District Attorney Markham
1936
5.4
Next Time We Love
as Michael Jennings
1936
6.4
Her Master's Voice
as Horace J. Twilling
1936
6.0
A Dream Comes True
as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
5.5
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Thomas Hayden
1935
6.6
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
5.0
In Person
as Thaddeus Parks
1935
6.3
It's in the Air
as W. R. Gridley
1935
5.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
1935
6.3
Redheads on Parade
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
0.0
Broadway Gondolier
as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
1935
5.4
Men Without Names
as Andrew Webster, banker
1935
6.0
Traveling Saleslady
as Rufus Twitchell
1935
5.5
Straight from the Heart
as Austin
1935
0.0
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Louis Lamson
1935
6.4
One More Spring
as Henry Sheridan
1935
5.8
The Secret Bride
as Willis Martin
1934
5.9
365 Nights in Hollywood
as J. Walter Delmar
1934
0.0
Gridiron Flash
as Howard Smith
1934
3.3
The Case of the Howling Dog
as District Attorney Claude Drumm
1934
6.2
One Exciting Adventure
as Fussli
1934
0.0
The Cat's-Paw
as Silk Hot McGee
1934
6.3
We're Rich Again
as Wilbur Page
1934
5.2
Twenty Million Sweethearts
as Sharpe
1934
6.0
The Show-Off
as Mr. 'Pa'
1934
5.7
The Poor Rich
as Tom Hopkins
1934
0.0
Dinner at Eight
as Ed Loomis
1933
6.7
Convention City
as J.B. Honeywell
1933
3.0
King for a Night
as Rev. John Williams
1933
6.2
Dancing Lady
as Jasper Bradley Sr.
1933
6.8
Wild Boys of the Road
as James Smith
1933
6.8
Saturday's Millions
as Ezra Fowler
1933
5.0
The Stranger's Return
as Allen
1933
6.2
I Love That Man
as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
1933
0.0
Heroes for Sale
as George Gibson
1933
7.0
Tomorrow at Seven
as Austin Winters
1933
6.0
Lilly Turner
as Dr. Hawley
1933
4.8
Central Airport
as Mr. Blaine
1933
6.1
Our Betters
as Thornton Clay
1933
5.1
He Learned About Women
as Appleby
1933
0.0
No Man of Her Own
as Vane
1932
6.5
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
1932
6.3
If I Had a Million
as Prison Priest (uncredited)
1932
6.6
Three on a Match
as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
1932
6.2
Big City Blues
as Station Agent
1932
5.3
A Successful Calamity
as Connors
1932
5.2
Week-End Marriage
as Doctor
1932
5.0
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Martin Collins
1932
6.2
The Star Witness
as Pa Leeds
1931
6.7
Man to Man
as Barber John Martin Bolton
1930
5.7
The Man from M.A.R.S.
as Arthur Wyman
1922
0.0
The Misleading Lady
as Stephen Weatherbee
1916
0.0