Grant Mitchell actor
- Total known movies 127
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 Towns 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 Nights 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.
Reverend Harper
Movie 1944
Caretaker
Movie 1940
Senator MacPherson
Movie 1939
Samuel Breckenbridge
Movie 1947
Samuel Breckenridge
Movie 1947
Walter Sherwood
Movie 1942
Wayne Clark
Movie 1945
Charlie Vane
Movie 1932
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Movie 1942
Dr. Gibbs
Movie 1944
Governor of New Orleans
Movie 1940
Jasper Bradley Sr.
Movie 1933
B.L. Faulkin
Movie 1938
Wellington Carruthers
Movie 1941
Austin
Movie 1935
Edgar Holliday
Movie 1943
Rene Salmon
Movie 1940
George Gibson
Movie 1933
Egeus
Movie 1935
James Smith
Movie 1933
Mr. Aspinwall
Movie 1942
Al Farrow
Movie 1947
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Movie 1936
Pa Leeds
Movie 1931
Dr. Hawley
Movie 1933
Mr. Bishop
Movie 1941
Mr. Goodwin
Movie 1942
Henry Sheridan
Movie 1935
Stephen Weatherbee
Movie 1916
Mr. Blaine
Movie 1933
Martin Collins
Movie 1932
Michael Jennings
Movie 1936
Ellsworth T. Banning
Movie 1937
John Quincy Adams
Movie 1939
Mayor of Pantera
Movie 1945
District Attorney Claude Drumm
Movie 1934
Uncle Wallace
Movie 1944
Arnold Benson
Movie 1944
Connors
Movie 1932
Doctor
Movie 1932
Station Agent
Movie 1932
John W. Bower
Movie 1940
Herbert Pett
Movie 1936
Willis Martin
Movie 1934
Austin Winters
Movie 1933
Hotel Clerk
Movie 1944
Thornton Clay
Movie 1933
Barber John Martin Bolton
Movie 1930
Robert Cantillon
Movie 1936
Thomas Hayden
Movie 1935
Hiram Krispan
Movie 1939
Tom Hopkins
Movie 1934
Paul Adams
Movie 1936
Henry Peck
Movie 1938
Dr. Kobbe
Movie 1940
Burton Williams
Movie 1937
Wilbur Page
Movie 1934
Howard Smith
Movie 1934
Mr. Snell
Movie 1938
J.B. Honeywell
Movie 1933
'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1961
Congressman Crenshaw
Movie 1947
J. Walter Delmar
Movie 1934
Warden Alan Parkhurst
Movie 1939
Judge Thaddeus Parks
Movie 1935
Ed Loomis
Movie 1933
Carlson (uncredited)
Movie 1945
Sharpe
Movie 1934
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Movie 1935
Mr. 'Pa'
Movie 1934
Duke
Movie 1938
Mr. Mason
Movie 1943
Rev. John Williams
Movie 1933
Horace J. Twilling
Movie 1936
Judge
Movie 1941
John Xerxes Archley
Movie 1939
Rufus Twitchell
Movie 1935
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
Movie 1933
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Marty Crawford
Movie 1936
J.D. Gibbons
Movie 1943
Jones
Movie 1940
Gilbert Wheeler
Movie 1942
Appleby
Movie 1933
Dr. Ward
Movie 1942
W. R. Gridley
Movie 1935
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Georges Clemenceau
Movie 1937
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
Movie 1937
Homer Henshaw
Movie 1946
Ralph Neely
Movie 1945
Minor Role (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Passenger with newspaper
Movie 1945
Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Self
Movie 1935
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1975
Uncle George
Movie 1944
Louis Lamson
Movie 1935
Prison Priest (uncredited)
Movie 1932
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1942
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1964
Mr. Pope
Movie 1945
Arthur Wyman
Movie 1922
Ernest Headley
Movie 1938
