82
Age
128
Movies
7.3
Rating
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.
82
Died at
128
Movies
7.3
Avg Rating
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.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
June 17, 1874
Died
May 1, 1957
Birthplace
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Convention City
1933
Dinner at Eight
1933
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
The Star Witness
1931
The Garden Murder Case
1936
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Saturday's Millions
1933
Tobacco Road
1941
Crime, Inc.
1945
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Larceny, Inc.
1942
Easy to Wed
1946
Gridiron Flash
1934
Week-End Marriage
1932
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
+ 108 more movies