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