Highest rated movie: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Lowest rated movie: The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
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Movies starring Grant Mitchell have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
The Grapes of Wrath - released in 1940 - is Grant Mitchell's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 709 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Grant Mitchell is The Secret of Dr. Kildare - released in 1939 - with a score of 45% based on 2 reviews.
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.
Grant Mitchell has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Charles Trowbridge, Irving Bacon and Milton Kibbee.
Grant Mitchell has worked with these film directors: W.S. Van Dyke, William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard and John Ford.
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