Grant Mitchell
Born June 17, 1874 (Age: 151)
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Columbus, Ohio, USA
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
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as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 90
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
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as Carlson (uncredited)
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Age: 71
Guest Wife
1945
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as House Detective
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Age: 71
Bedside Manner
1945
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as Mr. Pope
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Age: 71
Conflict
1945
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as Dr. Grant
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Age: 70
A Medal for Benny
1945
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as Mayor of Pantera
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Age: 70
Crime, Inc.
1945
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as Wayne Clark
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Age: 70
Bring on the Girls
1945
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as Ralph Neely
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Age: 70
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
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as Passenger with newspaper
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Age: 70
My Sister Eileen
1942
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as Walter Sherwood
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Age: 68
Orchestra Wives
1942
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as Dr. Ward
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Age: 68
Cairo
1942
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as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
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Age: 68
The Gay Sisters
1942
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as Gilbert Wheeler
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Age: 68
March On, America!
1942
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as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 68
Meet the Stewarts
1942
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as Mr. Goodwin
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Age: 67
Larceny, Inc.
1942
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as Mr. Aspinwall
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Age: 67
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
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as Ernest W. Stanley
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Age: 67
Skylark
1941
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as Frederick Vantine
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Age: 67
One Foot in Heaven
1941
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as Clayton Potter
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Age: 67
Nothing but the Truth
1941
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as Mr. Bishop
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Age: 67
The Feminine Touch
1941
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as Dean Hutchinson
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Age: 67
The Great Lie
1941
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as Joshua Mason
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Age: 66
The Penalty
1941
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as Judge
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Age: 66
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
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as Wellington Carruthers
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Age: 66
Tobacco Road
1941
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as George Payne
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Age: 66
No Man of Her Own
1932
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as Vane
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Age: 58
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
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as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
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Age: 58
If I Had a Million
1932
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as Prison Priest (uncredited)
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Age: 58
Three on a Match
1932
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as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
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Age: 58
Big City Blues
1932
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as Station Agent
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Age: 58
A Successful Calamity
1932
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as Connors
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Age: 58
Week-End Marriage
1932
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as Doctor
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Age: 58
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
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as Martin Collins
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Age: 57
The Star Witness
1931
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as Pa Leeds
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Age: 57
Man to Man
1930
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as Barber John Martin Bolton
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Age: 56