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Grant Mitchell
🎂 Jun 17, 1874 — 🕯️ May 1, 1957 (82 years)
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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.
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Dinner at Eight
1933
Crime, Inc.
1945
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
The Great Lie
1941
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
Tobacco Road
1941
Edison, the Man
1940
Three on a Match
1932
The Gay Sisters
1942
On Borrowed Time
1939
If I Had a Million
1932
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Castle on the Hudson
1940
Dancing Lady
1933
My Sister Eileen
1942
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
One Foot in Heaven
1941
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
Heroes for Sale
1933
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
In Person
1935
The Last Gangster
1937
Cairo
1942
The Star Witness
1931
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
The Garden Murder Case
1936
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
Hell's Kitchen
1939
One More Spring
1935
Larceny, Inc.
1942
Nothing but the Truth
1941
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
Lady Behave!
1937
First Lady
1937
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Broadway Gondolier
1935
A Successful Calamity
1932
We Who Are Young
1940
Central Airport
1933
It All Came True
1940
6,000 Enemies
1939
Conflict
1945
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
The Feminine Touch
1941
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Grant Mitchell
1874-06-17 · Columbus, Ohio, USA
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.