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Grant Mitchell
Known for: ActingGrant 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.
Filmography 45
Leave Her to Heaven
as Carlson (uncredited) 
The Grapes of Wrath
as Caretaker 
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator MacPherson 
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Reverend Harper 
The Devil Is a Sissy
as Paul Krumpp 
Dinner at Eight
as Ed Loomis 
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Al Farrow 
The Great Lie
as Joshua Mason 
The Life of Emile Zola
as Georges Clemenceau 
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus 
Edison, the Man
as Snade 
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Louis Lamson 
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Ernest W. Stanley 
Wild Boys of the Road
as James Smith 
New Moon
as Governor of New Orleans 
Conflict
as Dr. Grant 
On Borrowed Time
as Mr. Pilbeam 
Dancing Lady
as Jasper Bradley Sr. 
Nothing but the Truth
as Mr. Bishop 
Tobacco Road
as George Payne 
Step Lively
as Dr. Gibbs 
Easy to Wed
as Homer Henshaw 
The Case of the Howling Dog
as District Attorney Claude Drumm 
Crime, Inc.
as Wayne Clark 
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
as Edgar Holliday 
No Man of Her Own
as Vane 
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as John Archley 
Father Is A Prince
as John W. Bower 
Broadway Gondolier
as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer 
Footsteps in the Dark
as Wellington Carruthers 
The Cat's-Paw
as Silk Hot McGee 
The Garden Murder Case
as District Attorney Markham 
Next Time We Love
as Michael Jennings 
Meet the Stewarts
as Mr. Goodwin 
It All Came True
as Rene Salmon 
My Sister Eileen
as Walter Sherwood 
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Judge 
Blondie's Holiday
as Samuel Breckenridge 
Week-End Marriage
as Doctor 
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Henry Peck 
Larceny, Inc.
as Mr. Aspinwall 
When the Lights Go On Again
as Arnold Benson 
The Secret Bride
as Willis Martin 
Blondie's Anniversary
as Samuel Breckenbridge 
Women Are Like That
as Mr. Snell