Grant Mitchell
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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.
As Actor/Actress
Caballero sin espada
Senator MacPherson
Las viñas de la ira
Caretaker
Tobacco Road
George Payne
Arsenic and Old Lace
Reverend Harper
Central Airport
Mr. Blaine
Conflict
Dr. Grant
Gridiron Flash
Howard Smith
Que el cielo la juzgue
Carlson (uncredited)
In Person
Thaddeus Parks
First Lady
Ellsworth T. Banning
Our Betters
Thornton Clay
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Dancing Lady
Jasper Bradley Sr.
Step Lively
Dr. Gibbs
Piccadilly Jim
Herbert Pett
Dinner at Eight
Ed Loomis
Orchestra Wives
Dr. Ward
Parole!
Marty Crawford
Lady Behave!
Burton Williams
The Secret Bride
Willis Martin
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Egeus
Broadway Gondolier
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Al Farrow
El que vino a cenar
Ernest W. Stanley
If I Had a Million
Prison Priest (uncredited)
Moonlight Murder
Paul Adams
The Life of Emile Zola
Georges Clemenceau
La gran mentira
Joshua Mason
The Case of the Howling Dog
District Attorney Claude Drumm
Lilly Turner
Dr. Hawley