Grant Mitchell

Highest Rated: 100% Wonder Man (1945)

Lowest Rated: 60% The Great Lie (1941)

Birthday: Jun 17, 1874

Birthplace: Not Available

The son of a general and a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Ohioan Grant Mitchell was a lawyer (he certainly looked the part) for several years before going into acting. He made his stage bow at the age of 27, and spent the next quarter of a century as a leading player, often billed above the title of the play. Mitchell was a special favorite of showman George M. Cohan, who wrote a vehicle specifically tailored to Mitchell's talents, The Baby Cyclone, in 1927. Though he reportedly appeared in a 1923 film, Mitchell's movie career officially began in 1932, first in bits (the deathhouse priest in If I Had a Million), then in sizeable supporting roles at Warner Bros. Often cast as the father of the heroine, Mitchell socked across his standard dyspeptic-papa lines with a delivery somewhat reminiscent of James Cagney (leading one to wonder if the much-younger Cagney didn't take a few pointers from Mitchell during his own formative years). While he sparkled in a variety of secondary roles as businessmen, bank clerks and school principals, Mitchell was occasionally honored with a B-picture lead, as in 1939's Father is a Prince. With years of theatrical experience behind him, Mitchell was shown to best advantage in Warners' many adaptations of stage plays, notably A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942). Freelancing in the mid '40s, Grant Mitchell occasionally showed up in unbilled one-scene cameos (Leave Her to Heaven [1945]) and in reprises of his small-town bigwig characterizations in such B-films as Blondie's Anniversary (1947) and Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948).

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	See Here, Private Hargrove	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Curley	Judge	—	1948
No Score Yet	Honeymoon	Crenshaw	—	1947
No Score Yet	It Happened on 5th Avenue	Farrow	—	1947
No Score Yet	Blondie's Anniversary	Samuel Breckenbridge	—	1947
No Score Yet	Blondie's Holiday	Samuel Breckenridge	—	1947
No Score Yet	Easy to Wed	Homer Henshaw	—	1946
No Score Yet	Colonel Effingham's Raid (Man of the Hour)	Major Hickock	—	1946
85%	Leave Her to Heaven	Carlson	—	1945
No Score Yet	Conflict	Dr. Grant	—	1945
No Score Yet	Her Favorite Patient	Mr. Pope	—	1945
100%	Wonder Man	Mr. Wagonseller	—	1945
No Score Yet	A Medal for Benny	Mayor of Pantera	—	1945
No Score Yet	Crime, Inc.	Wayne Clark	—	1945
No Score Yet	Guest Wife	Detective	—	1945
No Score Yet	And Now Tomorrow	Uncle Wallace	—	1944
100%	Laura	Corey	—	1944
82%	Arsenic and Old Lace	Rev. Harper	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Impatient Years	Hotel Clerk	—	1944
No Score Yet	Step Lively	Dr. Glass	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Amazing Mrs. Holliday	Edgar	—	1943
80%	My Sister Eileen	Walter Sherwood	—	1942
No Score Yet	Orchestra Wives	Dr. Ward	—	1942
No Score Yet	Cairo	O.H.P. Boggs	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Gay Sisters	Gilbert Wheeler	—	1942
No Score Yet	Meet the Stewarts	Mr. Goodwin	—	1942
No Score Yet	Larceny, Inc.	Aspinwall	—	1942
86%	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Ernest Stanley	—	1942
No Score Yet	Skylark	Frederick Vantine	—	1941
100%	One Foot in Heaven	Clayton Potter	—	1941
No Score Yet	Nothing But the Truth	Mr. Bishop	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Feminine Touch	Dean Hutchinson	—	1941
60%	The Great Lie	Joshua Mason	—	1941
No Score Yet	Footsteps in the Dark	Carruthers	—	1941
No Score Yet	Tobacco Road	George Payne	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Penalty	Judge	—	1941
No Score Yet	My Love Came Back	Dr. Kobbe	—	1940
No Score Yet	New Moon	Governor of New Orleans	—	1940
80%	Edison, the Man	Shade	—	1940
No Score Yet	It All Came True	Rene Salmon	—	1940
100%	The Grapes of Wrath	Guardian	—	1940
No Score Yet	Castle on the Hudson	Dr. Ames	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Secret of Dr. Kildare	John Archley	—	1939
96%	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Sen. MacPherson	—	1939
No Score Yet	Hell's Kitchen	Hiram Crispin	—	1939
No Score Yet	On Borrowed Time	Mr. Pilbeam	—	1939
80%	Juarez	Mr. Harris	—	1939
No Score Yet	Six Thousand Enemies	Warden Parkhurst	—	1939
No Score Yet	Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus	Mr. Peck	—	1938
No Score Yet	That Certain Age	Jeweler	—	1938
No Score Yet	Women Are Like That	Mr. Snell	—	1938
No Score Yet	Hollywood Hotel	B.L. Faulken	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Last Gangster	Warden	—	1937
No Score Yet	Music for Madame	District Attorney Ernest Robinson	—	1937
82%	The Life of Emile Zola	Georges Clemenceau	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Devil Is a Sissy	Paul Krumpp	—	1936
No Score Yet	Piccadilly Jim	Herbert Pett	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Ex-Mrs. Bradford	Mr. John Summers	—	1936
No Score Yet	Moonlight Murder	Actor	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Garden Murder Case	Markham	—	1936
No Score Yet	In Person	Judge Thaddeus Parks	—	1935
91%	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Egeus	—	1935
No Score Yet	Traveling Saleslady	Rufus K. Twitchell	—	1935
100%	Gold Diggers of 1935	Louis Lamson	—	1935
No Score Yet	365 Nights in Hollywood	J. Walter Delmar	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Case of the Howling Dog	Claude Drumm	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Cat's Paw	`Silk Hat' McGee	—	1934
No Score Yet	Twenty Million Sweethearts	Chester A. Sharpe	—	1934
80%	Dancing Lady	Bradley Sr.	—	1933
88%	Wild Boys of the Road (Dangerous Days)	Mr. Smith	—	1933
91%	Dinner at Eight	Ed Loomis	—	1933
No Score Yet	Stranger's Return	Allan Redfield	—	1933
No Score Yet	Tomorrow at Seven	Winters	—	1933
75%	Heroes for Sale	George W. Gibson	—	1933
No Score Yet	Central Airport	Mr. Blaine	—	1933
No Score Yet	Our Betters	Thornton Clay	—	1933
No Score Yet	I Love That Man	Dentist	—	1933
86%	Convention City	J.B. Honeywell	—	1933
91%	No Man of Her Own	Charlie Vane	—	1932
No Score Yet	20,000 Years in Sing Sing	Dr. Ames	—	1932
No Score Yet	Three on a Match	Principal Gilmore	—	1932
No Score Yet	If I Had a Million	The Prison Priest	—	1932
No Score Yet	Star Witness	Pa Leeds	—	1931

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