Biographies: Grant Mitchell - Actor

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Grant Mitchell was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA, on June 17, 1874. Among his most important films are The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Grant Mitchell was born to a father who was a general in the US Army. He went to Yale and graduated from Harvard Law School. After a short period of practicing law, turned to acting and worked in Broadway theaters continuously from 1902 until 1938 but did not work in silent films and preferred the theater over it; however, he worked in talkies in low-budget films, and by the end of the thirties, he worked in many classic films. Grant Mitchell did not marry until his death on May 1, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, USA, of a stroke.

• 17 March 2022
• Dalia Saad