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 Towns 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 Aquality productions such as Dinner at Eight 1933 A Midsummer Nights 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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