Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1874-06-17
- Day of Death1957-05-01 (82 years)
- Place of BirthColumbus, Ohio, USA
- Also Known AsJohn Grant Mitchell Jr.Грант Митчелл
Grant Mitchell
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...Read More
Acting Career
- 1948
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
As: Judge
- 1947
Blondie's Anniversary
As: Samuel Breckenbridge
- 1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
As: Mitchell Edwards
- 1947
Honeymoon
As: Congressman Crenshaw
- 1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
As: Al Farrow
- 1947
Blondie's Holiday
As: Samuel Breckenridge
- 1946
Easy to Wed
As: Homer Henshaw
- 1945
Leave Her to Heaven
As: Carlson (uncredited)
1945Guest Wife
As: House Detective
1945Her Favorite Patient
As: Mr. Pope
1945Conflict
As: Dr. Grant
1945A Medal for Benny
As: Mayor of Pantera
1945Crime, Inc.
As: Wayne Clark
1945Bring on the Girls
As: Ralph Neely
1945Watchtower Over Tomorrow
As: Passenger with newspaper
1944And Now Tomorrow
As: Uncle Wallace
1944When the Lights Go On Again
As: Arnold Benson
1944The Impatient Years
As: Hotel Clerk
- 1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
As: Reverend Harper
1944Step Lively
As: Dr. Gibbs
1944See Here, Private Hargrove
As: Uncle George
1943Dixie
As: Mr. Mason
1943All by Myself
As: J.D. Gibbons
1943The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
As: Edgar Holliday
1942My Sister Eileen
As: Walter Sherwood
1942Orchestra Wives
As: Dr. Ward
1942Cairo
As: Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
1942The Gay Sisters
As: Gilbert Wheeler
1942Meet the Stewarts
As: Mr. Goodwin
1942Larceny, Inc.
As: Mr. Aspinwall
1941The Man Who Came to Dinner
As: Ernest W. Stanley
1941Skylark
As: Frederick Vantine
1941One Foot in Heaven
As: Clayton Potter
1941Nothing But the Truth
As: Mr. Bishop
1941The Feminine Touch
As: Dean Hutchinson
1941The Great Lie
As: Joshua Mason
1941The Penalty
As: Judge
1941Footsteps in the Dark
As: Wellington Carruthers
1941Tobacco Road
As: George Payne
1940Father Is A Prince
As: John W. Bower
1940We Who Are Young
As: Jones
1940My Love Came Back
As: Dr. Kobbe
1940New Moon
As: Governor of New Orleans
1940Edison, the Man
As: Snade
1940It All Came True
As: Rene Salmon
- 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
As: Caretaker
1940Castle on the Hudson
As: Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
1939The Secret of Dr. Kildare
As: John Xerxes Archley
- 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
As: Senator MacPherson
1939The Monroe Doctrine
As: John Quincy Adams
1939Hell's Kitchen
As: Hiram Krispan
1939On Borrowed Time
As: Mr. Pilbeam
19396,000 Enemies
As: Warden Alan Parkhurst
1938Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
As: Henry Peck
1938The Headleys at Home
As: Ernest Headley
1938That Certain Age
As: Jeweler
1938Youth Takes a Fling
As: Duke
1938Reformatory
As: Arnold Frayne
1938Women Are Like That
As: Mr. Snell
1938Hollywood Hotel
As: B.L. Faulkin
1937Lady Behave!
As: Burton Williams
1937First Lady
As: Ellsworth T. Banning
1937The Last Gangster
As: Warden
1937Music for Madame
As: District Attorney Ernest Robinson
- 1937
The Life of Emile Zola
As: Georges Clemenceau
1936The Devil Is a Sissy
As: Paul Krumpp
1936Piccadilly Jim
As: Herbert Pett
1936My American Wife
As: Robert Cantillon
1936Parole!
As: Marty Crawford
1936The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
As: John Summers, Luxury's Owner
1936Moonlight Murder
As: Paul Adams
1936The Garden Murder Case
As: District Attorney Markham
1936Next Time We Love
As: Michael Jennings
1936Her Master's Voice
As: Horace J. Twilling
1935Seven Keys to Baldpate
As: Thomas Hayden
1935In Person
As: Judge Thaddeus Parks
1935It's in the Air
As: W. R. Gridley
1935A Midsummer Night's Dream
As: Egeus
1935Redheads on Parade
As: Minor Role (uncredited)
1935Broadway Gondolier
As: E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
1935Men Without Names
As: Andrew Webster
1935Traveling Saleslady
As: Rufus Twitchell
1935Straight from the Heart
As: Austin
1935Gold Diggers of 1935
As: Louis Lamson
1935One More Spring
As: Henry Sheridan
1934The Secret Bride
As: Willis Martin
1934365 Nights in Hollywood
As: J. Walter Delmar
1934Gridiron Flash
As: Howard Smith
1934The Case of the Howling Dog
As: District Attorney Claude Drumm
1934One Exciting Adventure
As: Fussli
1934The Cat's-Paw
As: Silk Hot McGee
1934We're Rich Again
As: Wilbur Page
1934Twenty Million Sweethearts
As: Sharpe
1934The Show-Off
As: Mr. 'Pa'
1934The Poor Rich
As: Tom Hopkins
1933Dinner at Eight
As: Ed Loomis
1933Convention City
As: J.B. Honeywell
1933King for a Night
As: Rev. John Williams
1933Dancing Lady
As: Jasper Bradley Sr.
1933Wild Boys of the Road
As: James Smith
1933Saturday's Millions
As: Ezra Fowler
1933The Stranger's Return
As: Allen
1933I Love That Man
As: Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
1933Heroes for Sale
As: George Gibson
1933Tomorrow at Seven
As: Austin Winters
1933Lilly Turner
As: Dr. Hawley
1933Central Airport
As: Mr. Blaine
1933Our Betters
As: Thornton Clay
1933He Learned About Women
As: Appleby
1932No Man of Her Own
As: Vane
193220,000 Years in Sing Sing
As: Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
1932If I Had a Million
As: Prison Priest (uncredited)
1932Three on a Match
As: Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
1932Big City Blues
As: Station Agent
1932A Successful Calamity
As: Connors
1932Week-End Marriage
As: Doctor
1932The Famous Ferguson Case
As: Martin Collins
1931The Star Witness
As: Pa Leeds
1930Man to Man
As: Barber John Martin Bolton
1922The Man from M.A.R.S.
As: Arthur Wyman
1916The Misleading Lady
As: Stephen Weatherbee