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