You would think stage and film veteran Grant Mitchell was born to play stern authoritarians; his father after all was General John Grant Mitchell. But Mitchell would actually be better known for his portrayals of harangued husbands, bemused dads and bilious executives in 30s and 40s films. Born June 17, 1874, in Columbus, Ohio, and a Yale post graduate at Harvard Law, Mitchell gave up his law practice to become an actor and made his stage debut at age 27. He appeared in many leads on Broadway in such plays as "It Pays to Advertise," "The Champion," "The Whole Town's Talking," and "The Baby Cyclone," the last of which was specially written for him by George M. Cohan. Mitchell's screen career officially got off the ground with the advent of sound, though he did show up in a couple of silents. The beefy, balding actor appeared primarily in "B" films, and actually had a rare lead in the totally forgotten Father Is a Prince (1940). From time to time, however, he enjoyed being a part of "A" quality classic films such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Laura (1944), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Unmarried, he died at age 82 on May 1, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, USA (cerebral thrombosis)
Movie | Legato | Mr. Bishop | 1977-02-25 |
Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1964-09-02 |
Movie | Who Killed Doc Robbin? | Judge | 1948-04-09 |
Movie | Blondie's Holiday | Samuel Breckenridge | 1947-04-10 |
Movie | It Happened on Fifth Avenue | Al Farrow | 1947-04-17 |
Movie | Honeymoon | Congressman Crenshaw | 1947-05-17 |
Movie | The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Mitchell Edwards | 1947-06-02 |
Movie | Blondie's Anniversary | Samuel Breckenbridge | 1947-12-18 |
Movie | Easy to Wed | Homer Henshaw | 1946-07-25 |
Movie | Bring on the Girls | Ralph Neely | 1945-03-30 |
Movie | Watchtower Over Tomorrow | Passenger with newspaper | 1945-03-29 |
Movie | A Medal for Benny | Mayor of Pantera | 1945-04-16 |
Movie | Crime, Inc. | Wayne Clark | 1945-04-15 |
Movie | Conflict | Dr. Grant | 1945-06-15 |
Movie | Her Favorite Patient | Mr. Pope | 1945-06-22 |
Movie | Guest Wife | House Detective | 1945-07-27 |
Movie | Leave Her to Heaven | Carlson (uncredited) | 1945-12-25 |
Movie | Step Lively | Dr. Gibbs | 1944-07-26 |
Movie | See Here, Private Hargrove | Uncle George | 1944-03-18 |
Movie | The Impatient Years | Hotel Clerk | 1944-09-10 |
Movie | Arsenic and Old Lace | Reverend Harper | 1944-09-01 |
Movie | And Now Tomorrow | Uncle Wallace | 1944-11-22 |
Movie | When the Lights Go On Again | Arnold Benson | 1944-10-22 |
Movie | Laura | Lancaster Corey (scenes deleted) | 1944-10-11 |
Movie | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Edgar Holliday | 1943-02-19 |
Movie | All by Myself | J.D. Gibbons | 1943-06-11 |
Movie | Dixie | Mr. Mason | 1943-06-23 |
Movie | Meet the Stewarts | Mr. Goodwin | 1942-05-21 |
Movie | March On, America! | John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1942-06-20 |
Movie | Larceny, Inc. | Mr. Aspinwall | 1942-04-24 |
Movie | Orchestra Wives | Dr. Ward | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | My Sister Eileen | Walter Sherwood | 1942-09-24 |
Movie | The Gay Sisters | Gilbert Wheeler | 1942-08-01 |
Movie | Cairo | Mr. O.H.P. Boggs | 1942-08-17 |
Movie | The Penalty | Judge | 1941-03-13 |
Movie | Footsteps in the Dark | Wellington Carruthers | 1941-03-08 |
Movie | Tobacco Road | George Payne | 1941-02-20 |
Movie | The Great Lie | Joshua Mason | 1941-04-05 |
Movie | The Feminine Touch | Dean Hutchinson | 1941-10-01 |
Movie | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Ernest W. Stanley | 1941-12-24 |
Movie | One Foot in Heaven | Clayton Potter | 1941-11-01 |
Movie | Skylark | Frederick Vantine | 1941-11-21 |
Movie | Nothing But the Truth | Mr. Bishop | 1941-10-10 |
Movie | It All Came True | Rene Salmon | 1940-04-06 |
Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Caretaker | 1940-03-15 |
Movie | Edison, the Man | Snade | 1940-05-10 |
Movie | Castle on the Hudson | Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited) | 1940-02-17 |
Movie | We Who Are Young | Jones | 1940-07-19 |
Movie | New Moon | Governor of New Orleans | 1940-06-28 |
Movie | Father Is A Prince | John W. Bower | 1940-11-18 |
Movie | My Love Came Back | Dr. Kobbe | 1940-07-13 |
Movie | On Borrowed Time | Mr. Pilbeam | 1939-07-07 |
Movie | 6,000 Enemies | Warden Alan Parkhurst | 1939-06-09 |
Movie | Hell's Kitchen | Hiram Krispan | 1939-07-08 |
Movie | The Monroe Doctrine | John Quincy Adams | 1939-10-14 |
Movie | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Senator MacPherson | 1939-10-19 |
Movie | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | John Xerxes Archley | 1939-11-24 |
Movie | Youth Takes a Fling | Duke | 1938-09-22 |
Movie | Hollywood Hotel | B.L. Faulkin | 1938-01-15 |
Movie | Women Are Like That | Mr. Snell | 1938-04-23 |
Movie | That Certain Age | Jeweler | 1938-10-06 |
Movie | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Henry Peck | 1938-12-02 |
Movie | The Headleys at Home | Ernest Headley | 1938-11-01 |
Movie | The Life of Emile Zola | Georges Clemenceau | 1937-09-09 |
Movie | Music for Madame | District Attorney Ernest Robinson | 1937-10-08 |
Movie | The Last Gangster | Warden | 1937-11-12 |
Movie | First Lady | Ellsworth T. Banning | 1937-12-04 |
Movie | Lady Behave! | Burton Williams | 1937-12-22 |
Movie | Moonlight Murder | Paul Adams | 1936-03-27 |
Movie | The Garden Murder Case | District Attorney Markham | 1936-02-21 |
Movie | Next Time We Love | Michael Jennings | 1936-01-30 |
Movie | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | John Summers, Luxury's Owner | 1936-04-24 |
Movie | Her Master's Voice | Horace J. Twilling | 1936-01-17 |
Movie | Parole! | Marty Crawford | 1936-06-14 |
Movie | The Devil Is a Sissy | Paul Krumpp | 1936-09-18 |
Movie | Piccadilly Jim | Herbert Pett | 1936-08-14 |
Movie | My American Wife | Robert Cantillon | 1936-08-06 |
Movie | Broadway Gondolier | E.V. Richards, Radio Producer | 1935-07-27 |
Movie | Men Without Names | Andrew Webster | 1935-06-29 |
Movie | One More Spring | Henry Sheridan | 1935-02-15 |
Movie | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Louis Lamson | 1935-03-15 |
Movie | Traveling Saleslady | Rufus Twitchell | 1935-03-28 |
Movie | Redheads on Parade | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Thomas Hayden | 1935-12-13 |
Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus | 1935-10-09 |
Movie | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935-12-01 |
Movie | A Dream Comes True | Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1935-12-31 |
Movie | In Person | Judge Thaddeus Parks | 1935-11-22 |
Movie | It's in the Air | W. R. Gridley | 1935-10-10 |
Movie | Twenty Million Sweethearts | Sharpe | 1934-05-26 |
Movie | We're Rich Again | Wilbur Page | 1934-07-13 |
Movie | The Show-Off | Mr. 'Pa' | 1934-03-09 |
Movie | The Poor Rich | Tom Hopkins | 1934-02-25 |
Movie | The Cat's-Paw | Silk Hot McGee | 1934-08-07 |
Movie | Gridiron Flash | Howard Smith | 1934-10-06 |
Movie | The Secret Bride | Willis Martin | 1934-12-22 |
Movie | One Exciting Adventure | Fussli | 1934-09-01 |
Movie | 365 Nights in Hollywood | J. Walter Delmar | 1934-12-11 |
Movie | The Case of the Howling Dog | District Attorney Claude Drumm | 1934-09-22 |
Movie | Tomorrow at Seven | Austin Winters | 1933-06-01 |
Movie | Heroes for Sale | George Gibson | 1933-06-17 |
Movie | He Learned About Women | Appleby | 1933-03-02 |
Movie | I Love That Man | Dr. Crittenden - Dentist | 1933-07-07 |
Movie | Our Betters | Thornton Clay | 1933-03-17 |
Movie | Central Airport | Mr. Blaine | 1933-04-15 |
Movie | Lilly Turner | Dr. Hawley | 1933-05-13 |
Movie | Dinner at Eight | Ed Loomis | 1933-12-22 |
Movie | The Stranger's Return | Allen | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | King for a Night | Rev. John Williams | 1933-12-09 |
Movie | Convention City | J.B. Honeywell | 1933-12-14 |
Movie | Saturday's Millions | Ezra Fowler | 1933-09-30 |
Movie | Dancing Lady | Jasper Bradley Sr. | 1933-11-24 |
Movie | Wild Boys of the Road | James Smith | 1933-10-07 |
Movie | A Successful Calamity | Connors | 1932-09-17 |
Movie | Week-End Marriage | Doctor | 1932-06-18 |
Movie | The Famous Ferguson Case | Martin Collins | 1932-04-19 |
Movie | Big City Blues | Station Agent | 1932-09-18 |
Movie | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited) | 1932-12-24 |
Movie | Three on a Match | Mr. Gilmore (uncredited) | 1932-10-29 |
Movie | No Man of Her Own | Charlie Vane | 1932-12-30 |
Movie | If I Had a Million | Prison Priest (uncredited) | 1932-11-18 |
Movie | The Star Witness | Pa Leeds | 1931-08-22 |
Movie | Man to Man | Barber John Martin Bolton | 1930-12-05 |
Movie | The Misleading Lady | Stephen Weatherbee | 1916-01-03 |