Grant Mitchell
Born in Columbus, Ohio, USA — Jun 17 1874• Died May 01 1957
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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 wh…
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The Grapes of Wrath
Caretaker
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Senator MacPherson
Crime, Inc.
Wayne Clark
Arsenic and Old Lace
Reverend Harper
Castle on the Hudson
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
Music for Madame
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
The Gay Sisters
Gilbert Wheeler
The Life of Emile Zola
Georges Clemenceau
The Big Parade of Comedy
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dinner at Eight
Ed Loomis
The Last Gangster
Warden
One Foot in Heaven
Clayton Potter
If I Had a Million
Prison Priest (uncredited)
Tobacco Road
George Payne
The Star Witness
Pa Leeds
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Egeus
Leave Her to Heaven
Carlson (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time
Mr. Pilbeam
My Sister Eileen
Walter Sherwood
Lady Behave!
Burton Williams
In Person
Thaddeus Parks
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Al Farrow
6,000 Enemies
Warden Alan Parkhurst
The Famous Ferguson Case
Martin Collins
The Poor Rich
Tom Hopkins
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
Hell's Kitchen
Hiram Krispan
Three on a Match
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
The Great Lie
Joshua Mason
King for a Night
Rev. John Williams
Edison, the Man
Snade
One More Spring
Henry Sheridan
Larceny, Inc.
Mr. Aspinwall
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
John Xerxes Archley
Dancing Lady
Jasper Bradley Sr.
Hollywood Hotel
B.L. Faulkin
The Garden Murder Case
District Attorney Markham
Wild Boys of the Road
James Smith
Cairo
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Parole!
Marty Crawford
Heroes for Sale
George Gibson
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Case of the Howling Dog
District Attorney Claude Drumm
The Devil Is a Sissy
Paul Krumpp
Lilly Turner
Dr. Hawley
Our Betters
Thornton Clay
Father Is A Prince
John W. Bower
Gridiron Flash
Howard Smith
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Ernest W. Stanley
First Lady
Ellsworth T. Banning
New Moon
Governor of New Orleans
The Show-Off
Mr. 'Pa'
Conflict
Dr. Grant
See Here, Private Hargrove
Uncle George
Footsteps in the Dark
Wellington Carruthers
The Stranger's Return
Allen
Dixie
Mr. Mason
The Feminine Touch
Dean Hutchinson
One Exciting Adventure
Fussli
Nothing but the Truth
Mr. Bishop
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Edgar Holliday
Big City Blues
Station Agent
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Passenger with newspaper
365 Nights in Hollywood
J. Walter Delmar
Guest Wife
House Detective
Meet the Stewarts
Mr. Goodwin
Broadway Gondolier
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
That Certain Age
Jeweler
We Who Are Young
Jones
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Thomas Hayden
Blondie's Anniversary
Samuel Breckenbridge
Blondie's Holiday
Samuel Breckenridge
All by Myself
J.D. Gibbons
A Medal for Benny
Mayor of Pantera
Bring on the Girls
Ralph Neely
A Successful Calamity
Connors
Orchestra Wives
Dr. Ward
Saturday's Millions
Ezra Fowler
Skylark
Frederick Vantine
A Dream Comes True
Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Impatient Years
Hotel Clerk
The Misleading Lady
Stephen Weatherbee
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Henry Peck
And Now Tomorrow
Uncle Wallace
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Sharpe
Men Without Names
Andrew Webster, banker
Central Airport
Mr. Blaine
My American Wife
Robert Cantillon
My Love Came Back
Dr. Kobbe
Traveling Saleslady
Rufus Twitchell
Youth Takes a Fling
Duke
Gold Diggers of 1935
Louis Lamson
It All Came True
Rene Salmon
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Judge
The Penalty
Judge
Reformatory
Arnold Frayne
Man to Man
Barber John Martin Bolton
Shadows of Sing Sing
Joe Martel
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
Piccadilly Jim
Herbert Pett
Easy to Wed
Homer Henshaw
I Love That Man
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
Convention City
J.B. Honeywell
Redheads on Parade
Minor Role (uncredited)
Tomorrow at Seven
Austin Winters
Moonlight Murder
Paul Adams
It's in the Air
W. R. Gridley
Honeymoon
Congressman Crenshaw
No Man of Her Own
Vane
Women Are Like That
Mr. Snell
The Secret Bride
Willis Martin
Bedside Manner
Mr. Pope
Next Time We Love
Michael Jennings
Week-End Marriage
Doctor
The Monroe Doctrine
John Quincy Adams
The Cat's-Paw
Silk Hot McGee
The Headleys at Home
Ernest Headley
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Mitchell Edwards
We're Rich Again
Wilbur Page
Step Lively
Dr. Gibbs
The Bride Wore Crutches
E.J. Randall
Her Master's Voice
Horace J. Twilling
The Man from M.A.R.S.
Arthur Wyman
March On, America!
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
He Learned About Women
Appleby
Straight from the Heart
Austin
When the Lights Go On Again
Arnold Benson