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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.
82
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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.
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
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
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
If I Had a Million
1932
Dinner at Eight
1933
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Dancing Lady
1933
The Great Lie
1941
Conflict
1945
Crime, Inc.
1945
Larceny, Inc.
1942
On Borrowed Time
1939
One Foot in Heaven
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
A Medal for Benny
1945
Orchestra Wives
1942
Nothing but the Truth
1941
Heroes for Sale
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Tobacco Road
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