John Grant Mitchell Jr. (June 17, 1874 â€" May 1, 1957) was an
American stage actor on Broadway and mainly a character actor on film.
He appeared on Broadway from 1902 to 1939 and appeared in more than
125 films between 1930 and 1948.Mitchell was born John Grant Mitchell,
Jr. in Columbus, Ohio, the only son of American Civil War general John
G. Mitchell. His paternal grandmother, Fanny Arabella Hayes, was the
sister of President Rutherford B. Hayes. He attended Yale University,
where he served as feature editor of campus humor magazine The Yale
Record.Like his father, he became an attorney, graduating from the
Harvard Law School. However, by his mid-to-late 20s, he tired of his
legal practice and turned a long term dream into a reality by becoming
an actor on Broadway. He played lead roles in plays such as It Pays to
Advertise, The Whole Town's Talking, The Champion, and The Baby
Cyclone.Mitchell was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
(Phi chapter).
American stage actor on Broadway and mainly a character actor on film.
He appeared on Broadway from 1902 to 1939 and appeared in more than
125 films between 1930 and 1948.Mitchell was born John Grant Mitchell,
Jr. in Columbus, Ohio, the only son of American Civil War general John
G. Mitchell. His paternal grandmother, Fanny Arabella Hayes, was the
sister of President Rutherford B. Hayes. He attended Yale University,
where he served as feature editor of campus humor magazine The Yale
Record.Like his father, he became an attorney, graduating from the
Harvard Law School. However, by his mid-to-late 20s, he tired of his
legal practice and turned a long term dream into a reality by becoming
an actor on Broadway. He played lead roles in plays such as It Pays to
Advertise, The Whole Town's Talking, The Champion, and The Baby
Cyclone.Mitchell was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
(Phi chapter).
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