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.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

7.9

The Grapes of Wrath

7.8

Arsenic and Old Lace

7.6

Leave Her to Heaven

7.4

The Life of Emile Zola

6.7

Dinner at Eight

6.7

The Man Who Came to Dinner

6.9

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

7.1

Conflict

6.5

Three on a Match

6.2

Tobacco Road

6.6

Gold Diggers of 1935

6.4

The Great Lie

6.9

Wild Boys of the Road

6.8

A Midsummer Night's Dream

6.5

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

6.5

If I Had a Million

6.5

Dancing Lady

7.0

The Stranger's Return

6.2

Larceny, Inc.

7.0

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

6.1

The Last Gangster

6.3

Heroes for Sale

7.0

On Borrowed Time

7.5

Edison, the Man

6.6

No Man of Her Own

6.5

My Sister Eileen

6.7

The Cat's-Paw

6.2

One Foot in Heaven

6.6

It All Came True

5.8

The Star Witness

6.7

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

5.6

The Garden Murder Case

5.5

The Case of the Howling Dog

6.5

The Secret Bride

6.3

Castle on the Hudson

6.8

Big City Blues

5.3

Our Betters

5.4

The Devil Is a Sissy

6.9

Hollywood Hotel

5.4

Central Airport

6.3

Guest Wife

6.2

Orchestra Wives

5.8

Footsteps in the Dark

6.9

Nothing But the Truth

7.1

Tomorrow at Seven

6.0

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

4.0

Easy to Wed

6.2

Lilly Turner

5.6

Next Time We Love

6.2

Seven Keys to Baldpate

6.6

The Gay Sisters

6.5

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

6.4

The Feminine Touch

5.1

Lady Behave!

5.2

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

5.7

Step Lively

6.0

New Moon

6.8

First Lady

6.2

A Successful Calamity

5.2

My Love Came Back

5.2

6,000 Enemies

6.0

Twenty Million Sweethearts

6.0

Traveling Saleslady

5.9

That Certain Age

5.0

Blondie's Anniversary

5.6

The Impatient Years

6.3

Man to Man

5.7

Honeymoon

6.4

Broadway Gondolier

5.4

We Who Are Young

5.8

Bring on the Girls

6.1

Her Favorite Patient

5.8

Crime, Inc.

4.2

Cairo

5.8

The Famous Ferguson Case

6.0

A Medal for Benny

4.5

Week-End Marriage

6.0

Hell's Kitchen

6.2

Moonlight Murder

5.0

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

5.0

Skylark

6.8

One More Spring

5.7

And Now Tomorrow

5.7

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

5.7

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

4.3

Gridiron Flash

3.3

Women Are Like That

5.7

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

3.3

In Person

6.3

The Show-Off

5.7

The Penalty

6.0

Things You Never See on the Screen

5.0

March On, America!

4.7

The Big Parade of Comedy

6.3

Blondie's Holiday

6.0

Meet the Stewarts

6.0

The Monroe Doctrine

7.0

When the Lights Go On Again

5.5

We're Rich Again

4.0

Convention City

3.5

King for a Night

6.2

It's in the Air

5.0

Music for Madame

5.0

Reformatory

6.0

Father Is A Prince

5.0

Piccadilly Jim

6.5

Youth Takes a Fling

1.0

Dixie

3.0

Men Without Names

6.0

Her Master's Voice

6.0

Parole!

6.0

A Dream Comes True

5.5

See Here, Private Hargrove

6.0

Straight from the Heart

0.0

The Misleading Lady

0.0

My American Wife

0.0

The Poor Rich

0.0

365 Nights in Hollywood

0.0

One Exciting Adventure

0.0

I Love That Man

0.0

All by Myself

0.0

He Learned About Women

0.0

Redheads on Parade

0.0

Saturday's Millions

0.0

The Man from M.A.R.S.

0.0

The Headleys at Home

0.0