Grant Mitchell
Age: 82 | From: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1874-06-17 16:31:31
Death: 1957-05-01 16:31:31
Aliases: John Grant Mitchell Jr. , Грант Митчелл
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Movie Involvements: 53
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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 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.
Most Famous Work
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940) Caretaker
Leave Her to Heaven
(1945) Carlson (uncredited)
Conflict
(1945) Dr. Grant
The Life of Emile Zola
(1937) Georges Clemenceau
The Great Lie
(1941) Joshua Mason
Three on a Match
(1932) Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Orchestra Wives
(1942) Dr. Ward
The Case of the Howling Dog
(1934) District Attorney Claude DrummActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1964 | (archive footage) | |
| 1961 | 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1947 | Samuel Breckenbridge | |
| Mitchell Edwards | ||
| Congressman Crenshaw | ||
| Al Farrow | ||
| Samuel Breckenridge | ||
| 1946 | Homer Henshaw | |
| 1945 | Carlson (uncredited) | |
| House Detective | ||
| Mr. Pope | ||
| Dr. Grant | ||
| Mayor of Pantera | ||
| Wayne Clark | ||
| Ralph Neely | ||
| Passenger with newspaper | ||
| 1944 | Uncle Wallace | |
| Arnold Benson | ||
| Hotel Clerk | ||
| Reverend Harper | ||
| Dr. Gibbs | ||
| Uncle George | ||
| 1943 | Mr. Mason | |
| J.D. Gibbons | ||
| Edgar Holliday | ||
| 1942 | Walter Sherwood | |
| Dr. Ward | ||
| Mr. O.H.P. Boggs | ||
| Gilbert Wheeler | ||
| John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Mr. Goodwin | ||
| Mr. Aspinwall | ||
| Ernest W. Stanley | ||
| 1941 | Frederick Vantine | |
| Clayton Potter | ||
| Mr. Bishop | ||
| Dean Hutchinson | ||
| Joshua Mason | ||
| Judge | ||
| Wellington Carruthers | ||
| George Payne | ||
| 1940 | John W. Bower | |
| Jones | ||
| Dr. Kobbe | ||
| Governor of New Orleans | ||
| Snade | ||
| Rene Salmon | ||
| Caretaker | ||
| Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited) | ||
| 1939 | John Xerxes Archley | |
| Senator MacPherson | ||
| John Quincy Adams | ||
| Hiram Krispan | ||
| Mr. Pilbeam | ||
| Warden Alan Parkhurst | ||
| 1938 | Henry Peck | |
| Ernest Headley | ||
| Jeweler | ||
| Duke | ||
| Arnold Frayne | ||
| Mr. Snell | ||
| B.L. Faulkin | ||
| 1937 | Burton Williams | |
| Ellsworth T. Banning | ||
| Warden | ||
| District Attorney Ernest Robinson | ||
| Georges Clemenceau | ||
| 1936 | Paul Krumpp | |
| Herbert Pett | ||
| Robert Cantillon | ||
| Marty Crawford | ||
| John Summers, Luxury's Owner | ||
| Paul Adams | ||
| District Attorney Markham | ||
| Michael Jennings | ||
| Horace J. Twilling | ||
| 1935 | Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Thomas Hayden | ||
| Self | ||
| Judge Thaddeus Parks | ||
| W. R. Gridley | ||
| Egeus | ||
| Minor Role (uncredited) | ||
| E.V. Richards, Radio Producer | ||
| Andrew Webster | ||
| Rufus Twitchell | ||
| Austin | ||
| Louis Lamson | ||
| Henry Sheridan | ||
| 1934 | Willis Martin | |
| J. Walter Delmar | ||
| Howard Smith | ||
| District Attorney Claude Drumm | ||
| Fussli | ||
| Silk Hot McGee | ||
| Wilbur Page | ||
| Sharpe | ||
| Mr. 'Pa' | ||
| Tom Hopkins | ||
| 1933 | Ed Loomis | |
| J.B. Honeywell | ||
| Rev. John Williams | ||
| Jasper Bradley Sr. | ||
| James Smith | ||
| Ezra Fowler | ||
| Allen | ||
| Dr. Crittenden - Dentist | ||
| George Gibson | ||
| Austin Winters | ||
| Dr. Hawley | ||
| Mr. Blaine | ||
| Thornton Clay | ||
| Appleby | ||
| 1932 | Charlie Vane | |
| Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited) | ||
| Prison Priest (uncredited) | ||
| Mr. Gilmore (uncredited) | ||
| Station Agent | ||
| Connors | ||
| Doctor | ||
| Martin Collins | ||
| 1931 | Pa Leeds | |
| 1930 | Barber John Martin Bolton | |
| 1922 | Arthur Wyman | |
| 1916 | Stephen Weatherbee | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
