Grant Mitchell (actor)

Grant Mitchell (actor)

Infobox actor
name = Grant Mitchell


imagesize = 150px
birthdate = birth date |1874|6|17|mf=y
birthplace = Columbus, Ohio, United States
deathdate = death date and age|1957|5|1|1874|6|17|mf=y
deathplace = Unknown
yearsactive = 1902 – 1948

John Grant Mitchell, Jr. (June 17, 1874 – May 1, 1957) was an American stage actor on Broadway and character actor in B films of the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared on Broadway from 1902 to 1939 and appeared in more than 125 films between 1930 and 1948.

Biography

Mitchell was born 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 beoming 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".

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

*"Big City Blues" (1932)
*"A Successful Calamity" (1932)
*"No Man of Her Own" (1932)
*"Central Airport" (1933)
*"Heroes for Sale" (1933)
*"Dinner at Eight" (1933)
*"Wild Boys of the Road" (1933)
*"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)
*"6,000 Enemies" (1939)
*"Hell's Kitchen" (1939)
*"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)
*"The Grapes of Wrath" (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)
*"Dixie" (1943)
*"Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)
*"Crime, Inc." (1945)
*"A Medal for Benny" (1945)
*"Conflict" (1945)
*"Guest Wife" (1945)
*"It Happened on 5th Avenue" (1947)

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