Grant Mitchell
Birthday: 1874-06-17
Place of Birth: 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.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Blondie's Anniversary
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Blondie's Holiday
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My Sister Eileen
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
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Conflict
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The Last Gangster
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Crime, Inc.
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No Man of Her Own
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The Cat's-Paw
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Three on a Match
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Cairo
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Step Lively
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Dancing Lady
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Hollywood Hotel
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Footsteps in the Dark
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Straight from the Heart
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
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It All Came True
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Tobacco Road
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Heroes for Sale
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Wild Boys of the Road
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Larceny, Inc.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
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The Star Witness
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One Foot in Heaven
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The Feminine Touch
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Lilly Turner
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Skylark
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Nothing But the Truth
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Meet the Stewarts
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One More Spring
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The Misleading Lady
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Central Airport
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The Famous Ferguson Case
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Next Time We Love
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First Lady
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The Monroe Doctrine
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The Garden Murder Case
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A Medal for Benny
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The Case of the Howling Dog
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Guest Wife
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And Now Tomorrow
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When the Lights Go On Again
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A Successful Calamity
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Week-End Marriage
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Big City Blues
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Father Is A Prince
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
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Piccadilly Jim
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The Secret Bride
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Tomorrow at Seven
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The Impatient Years
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Our Betters
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Man to Man
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My American Wife
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
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Hell's Kitchen
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The Poor Rich
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Moonlight Murder
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
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My Love Came Back
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Lady Behave!
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We're Rich Again
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Women Are Like That
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Convention City
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Presid...
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On Borrowed Time
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365 Nights in Hollywood
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6,000 Enemies
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In Person
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The Devil Is a Sissy
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The Stranger's Return
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Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver...
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Leave Her to Heaven
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Twenty Million Sweethearts
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Broadway Gondolier
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The Show-Off
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Youth Takes a Fling
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne...
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Dixie
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Men Without Names
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory....
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a m...
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King for a Night
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in...
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Her Master's Voice
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out ...
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The Penalty
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his...
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One Exciting Adventure
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of ...
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation....
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Traveling Saleslady
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...
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I Love That Man
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across ...
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, b...
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The Great Lie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his af...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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Parole!
Soon after the prison release of a lawyer (Henry Hunter), his dedication to improving his life puts ...
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All by Myself
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, ...
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The Gay Sisters
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married....
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He Learned About Women
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and writte...
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Orchestra Wives
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her fee...
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It's in the Air
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants ...
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Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
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That Certain Age
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, new...
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The Life of Emile Zola
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...
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Music for Madame
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh...
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Easy to Wed
When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dolla...
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Bring on the Girls
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. ...
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Redheads on Parade
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to preve...
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Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nation...
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A Dream Comes True
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Saturday's Millions
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's fath...
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See Here, Private Hargrove
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his t...
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a ...
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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March On, America!
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americ...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Bedside Manner
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle...
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The Man from M.A.R.S.
An inventor makes contact with Mars via television. The film is notable for using the 3-D process c...
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The Headleys at Home
In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that ...
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