Birthday
1874/06/17
Day of death
1957/05/01 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Also know as
John Grant Mitchell Jr., Грант Митчелл
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", "Th...Read more
(1944) Arsenic and Old Lace
as Reverend Harper
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Caretaker
(1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator MacPherson
(1947) Blondie's Anniversary
as Samuel Breckenbridge
(1947) Blondie's Holiday
as Samuel Breckenridge
(1942) My Sister Eileen
as Walter Sherwood
(1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Ernest W. Stanley
(1945) Conflict
as Dr. Grant
(1938) Reformatory
as Arnold Frayne
(1937) The Last Gangster
as Warden
(1945) Crime, Inc.
as Wayne Clark
(1932) No Man of Her Own
as Charlie Vane
(1934) The Cat's-Paw
as Silk Hot McGee
(1932) Three on a Match
as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
(1942) Cairo
as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
(1944) Step Lively
as Dr. Gibbs
(1940) New Moon
as Governor of New Orleans
(1933) Dancing Lady
as Jasper Bradley Sr.
(1938) Hollywood Hotel
as B.L. Faulkin
(1941) Footsteps in the Dark
as Wellington Carruthers
(1935) Straight from the Heart
as Austin
(1943) The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
as Edgar Holliday
(1940) It All Came True
as Rene Salmon
(1941) Tobacco Road
as George Payne
(1933) Heroes for Sale
as George Gibson
(1935) A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
(1933) Wild Boys of the Road
as James Smith
(1942) Larceny, Inc.
as Mr. Aspinwall
(1947) It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Al Farrow
(1936) The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as John Summers, Luxury's Owner
(1931) The Star Witness
as Pa Leeds
(1941) One Foot in Heaven
as Clayton Potter
(1941) The Feminine Touch
as Dean Hutchinson
(1933) Lilly Turner
as Dr. Hawley
(1941) Skylark
as Frederick Vantine
(1941) Nothing But the Truth
as Mr. Bishop
(1942) Meet the Stewarts
as Mr. Goodwin
(1935) One More Spring
as Henry Sheridan
(1916) The Misleading Lady
as Stephen Weatherbee
(1933) Central Airport
as Mr. Blaine
(1932) The Famous Ferguson Case
as Martin Collins
(1936) Next Time We Love
as Michael Jennings
(1937) First Lady
as Ellsworth T. Banning
(1939) The Monroe Doctrine
as John Quincy Adams
(1936) The Garden Murder Case
as District Attorney Markham
(1945) A Medal for Benny
as Mayor of Pantera
(1934) The Case of the Howling Dog
as District Attorney Claude Drumm
(1945) Guest Wife
as House Detective
(1944) And Now Tomorrow
as Uncle Wallace
(1944) When the Lights Go On Again
as Arnold Benson
(1932) A Successful Calamity
as Connors
(1932) Week-End Marriage
as Doctor
(1932) Big City Blues
as Station Agent
(1940) Father Is A Prince
as John W. Bower
(1947) The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Mitchell Edwards
(1936) Piccadilly Jim
as Herbert Pett
(1934) The Secret Bride
as Willis Martin
(1933) Tomorrow at Seven
as Austin Winters
(1944) The Impatient Years
as Hotel Clerk
(1933) Our Betters
as Thornton Clay
(1930) Man to Man
as Barber John Martin Bolton
(1936) My American Wife
as Robert Cantillon
(1935) Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Thomas Hayden
(1939) Hell's Kitchen
as Hiram Krispan
(1934) The Poor Rich
as Tom Hopkins
(1936) Moonlight Murder
as Paul Adams
(1938) Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Henry Peck
(1940) My Love Came Back
as Dr. Kobbe
(1937) Lady Behave!
as Burton Williams
(1934) We're Rich Again
as Wilbur Page
(1934) Gridiron Flash
as Howard Smith
(1938) Women Are Like That
as Mr. Snell
(1933) Convention City
as J.B. Honeywell
(1939) On Borrowed Time
as Mr. Pilbeam
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1947) Honeymoon
as Congressman Crenshaw
(1934) 365 Nights in Hollywood
as J. Walter Delmar
(1939) 6,000 Enemies
as Warden Alan Parkhurst
(1935) In Person
as Judge Thaddeus Parks
(1936) The Devil Is a Sissy
as Paul Krumpp
(1933) The Stranger's Return
as Allen
(1933) Dinner at Eight
as Ed Loomis
(1945) Leave Her to Heaven
as Carlson (uncredited)
(1934) Twenty Million Sweethearts
as Sharpe
(1935) Broadway Gondolier
as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
(1934) The Show-Off
as Mr. 'Pa'
(1938) Youth Takes a Fling
as Duke
(1943) Dixie
as Mr. Mason
(1935) Men Without Names
as Andrew Webster
(1948) Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Judge
(1933) King for a Night
as Rev. John Williams
(1936) Her Master's Voice
as Horace J. Twilling
(1941) The Penalty
as Judge
(1934) One Exciting Adventure
as Fussli
(1939) The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as John Xerxes Archley
(1935) Traveling Saleslady
as Rufus Twitchell
(1933) I Love That Man
as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
(1932) 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
(1941) The Great Lie
as Joshua Mason
(1940) Edison, the Man
as Snade
(1936) Parole!
as Marty Crawford
(1943) All by Myself
as J.D. Gibbons
(1940) We Who Are Young
as Jones
(1942) The Gay Sisters
as Gilbert Wheeler
(1933) He Learned About Women
as Appleby
(1942) Orchestra Wives
as Dr. Ward
(1935) It's in the Air
as W. R. Gridley
(1940) Castle on the Hudson
as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
(1938) That Certain Age
as Jeweler
(1937) The Life of Emile Zola
as Georges Clemenceau
(1937) Music for Madame
as District Attorney Ernest Robinson
(1946) Easy to Wed
as Homer Henshaw
(1945) Bring on the Girls
as Ralph Neely
(1935) Redheads on Parade
as Minor Role (uncredited)
(1945) Watchtower Over Tomorrow
as Passenger with newspaper
(1935) A Dream Comes True
as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1935) Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1933) Saturday's Millions
as Ezra Fowler
(1944) See Here, Private Hargrove
as Uncle George
(1935) Gold Diggers of 1935
as Louis Lamson
(1932) If I Had a Million
as Prison Priest (uncredited)
(1942) March On, America!
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1964) The Big Parade of Comedy
as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1945) Her Favorite Patient
as Mr. Pope
(1922) The Man from M.A.R.S.
as Arthur Wyman
(1938) The Headleys at Home
as Ernest Headley