Grant Mitchell

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John Grant Mitchell Jr. (June 17, 1874 – May 1, 1957) was an American stage actor on Broadway and mainly a character actor on film. He appeared on Broadway from 1902 to 1939 and appeared in more than 125 films between 1930 and 1948.

Biography

Mitchell was born John Grant Mitchell, Jr. in Columbus, Ohio, the only son of American Civil War general John G. Mitchell. Like his father, he became an attorney, graduating from the Harvard Law School. However by his mid-to-late 20s, he tired of his legal practice and turned a long term dream into a reality by becoming an actor on Broadway. He played lead roles in plays such as It Pays to Advertise, The Whole Town's Talking, The Champion, and The Baby Cyclone.

Grant Mitchell was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter).

In film he initially made an appearance in 1916 and one or two other silents amidst his extensive theatre work but Mitchell's screen career really took off with the advent of sound. Most of his appearances were in B films of the 1930s and 1940s, but he made many notable appearances in high profile films such as 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).

He died a bachelor on May 1, 1957.

Partial filmography

The Star Witness (1931) Big City Blues (1932) A Successful Calamity (1932) No Man of Her Own (1932) Central Airport (1933) Lilly Turner (1933) Dancing Lady (1933) Heroes for Sale (1933) Our Betters (1933) Dinner at Eight (1933) Wild Boys of the Road (1933) We're Rich Again (1934) Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934) One More Spring (1935) Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) The Devil is a Sissy (1936) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) First Lady (1937) 6,000 Enemies (1939) Hell's Kitchen (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) It All Came True (1940) Edison, the Man (1940) Tobacco Road (1941) Footsteps in the Dark (1941) The Great Lie (1941) Nothing But the Truth (1941) Skylark (1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Larceny, Inc. (1942) The Gay Sisters (1942) My Sister Eileen (1942) The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) Dixie (1943) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Step Lively (1944) Crime, Inc. (1945) A Medal for Benny (1945) Conflict (1945) Guest Wife (1945) It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)