Grant Mitchell
Acting
Born 1874-06-17
Died 1957-05-01
Columbus, Ohio, USA
128 credits
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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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Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Grapes of Wrath
My Sister Eileen
Dinner at Eight
Leave Her to Heaven
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Great Lie
See Here, Private Hargrove
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Edison, the Man
Convention City
Conflict
Dixie
Crime, Inc.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Life of Emile Zola
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Guest Wife
Tobacco Road
The Big Parade of Comedy
Heroes for Sale
If I Had a Million
In Person
Dancing Lady
Her Master's Voice
My American Wife
Step Lively
The Last Gangster
The Man from M.A.R.S.
Nothing but the Truth
Father Is A Prince
Hell's Kitchen
King for a Night
Central Airport
Parole!
Larceny, Inc.
Traveling Saleslady
New Moon
That Certain Age
No Man of Her Own
Three on a Match
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
On Borrowed Time
The Devil Is a Sissy
Things You Never See on the Screen
One Foot in Heaven
The Impatient Years
A Dream Comes True
Music for Madame
Wild Boys of the Road
The Gay Sisters
Footsteps in the Dark
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
My Love Came Back
And Now Tomorrow
It All Came True
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
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