An American essayist and fiction writer, he’s particularly known for his essay collection, Reveries of the Bachelor, which targets the dream-like lives of mid-nineteenth-century Us citizens. His other functions consist of Doctor Johns (1866) and My Plantation of Edgewood: A Nation Publication (1863). He graduated from Yale University, where he analyzed both legislation and books. He subsequently offered like a U.S. consul in Venice, Italy. His Reveries of the Bachelor was a preferred publication of poet Emily Dickinson. He was the Connecticut-born child of politician Stephen Blend Mitchell. He and Harry Whitney had been both members from the Skull and Bone fragments culture at Yale.
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Date Of Birth April 12, 1822
Died December 15, 1908, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Movies Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Laura, Wild Boys of the Road, The Life of Emile Zola, Dinner at Eight, No Man of Her Own, My Sister Eileen, The Star Witness, Gold Diggers of 1935, Our Betters, Larceny, Inc., Conflict, Central Airport, Father Is a Prince, The Secret Bride, Footsteps in the Dark, Step Lively, The Case of the Howling Dog, The Devil Is a Sissy, Next Time We Love, A Medal for Benny, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Garden Murder Case, The Feminine Touch, One More Spring, 365 Nights in Hollywood, The Corpse Came C.O.D., The Famous Ferguson Case, Crime, Inc., The Grapes of Wrath, The Cat's-Paw, The Great Lie, Hollywood Hotel, Easy to Wed, The Gay Sisters, The Amazing Mrs. Holliday, Heroes for Sale, 6,000 Enemies, Tobacco Road, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Who Killed Doc Robbin, Big City Blues, Nothing but the Truth, Skylark, Broadway Gondolier, Hell's Kitchen, My Love Came Back, We're Rich Again
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Performed on Broadway from 1902-1938.
Actor
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Guest Wife
1945
House Detective
Bedside Manner
1945
Mr. Pope
Conflict
1945
Dr. Grant
Wonder Man
1945
Mr. Wagonseller (uncredited)
A Medal for Benny
1945
Mayor of Pantera
Crime, Inc.
1945
Wayne Clark
Bring on the Girls
1945
Uncle Ralph
And Now Tomorrow
1944
Uncle Wallace
When the Lights Go on Again
1944
Mr. Arnold Benson
Laura
1944
Lancaster Corey (scenes deleted)
The Impatient Years
1944
Hotel Clerk
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Reverend Harper
Step Lively
1944
Dr. Gibbs
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
Uncle George
Dixie
1943
Mr. Mason
All by Myself
1943
J.D. Gibbons
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Edgar Holliday
My Sister Eileen
1942
Walter Sherwood
Orchestra Wives
1942
Dr. Ward
Cairo
1942
O.H.P. Boggs
The Gay Sisters
1942
Gilbert Wheeler
Meet the Stewarts
1942
Mr. Pierce Goodwin
Larceny, Inc.
1942
Mr. Aspinwall
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1942
Mr. Ernest W. Stanley
Skylark
1941
Frederick Vantine
Nothing But the Truth
1941
Mr. Bishop
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Clayton Potter
The Feminine Touch
1941
Dean Hutchinson
The Great Lie
1941
Joshua Mason
The Penalty
1941
Judge
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Carruthers
Tobacco Road
1941
George Payne
Father Is a Prince
1940
John Bower
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940
E.J. Randall
We Who Are Young
1940
Jones
My Love Came Back
1940
Dr. Kobbe
New Moon
1940
Governor of New Orleans
Edison, the Man
1940
Snade
It All Came True
1940
Rene Salmon
Castle on the Hudson
1940
Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Caretaker
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
John Xerxes Archley
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Senator MacPherson
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
Short
John Quincy Adams
On Borrowed Time
1939
Mr. Pilbeam
Hell's Kitchen
1939
Krispan
6,000 Enemies
1939
Warden Parkhurst
Juarez
1939
Mr. Harris (scenes deleted)
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
Henry Peck
The Headleys at Home
1938
Ernest Headley
That Certain Age
1938
Jeweler
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Duke
Reformatory
1938
Arnold Frayne
Women Are Like That
1938
Mr. Snell
Lady Behave!
1937
Burton Williams
Hollywood Hotel
1937
B.L. Faulkin
First Lady
1937
Ellsworth T. Banning
The Last Gangster
1937
Warden
Music for Madame
1937
District Attorney Ernest Robinson
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
Georges Clemenceau
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Paul Krumpp
Piccadilly Jim
1936
Herbert Pett
My American Wife
1936
Robert Cantillon
Parole!
1936
Marty Crawford
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Moonlight Murder
1936
Dr. Adams
Next Time We Love
1936
Michael Jennings
Her Master's Voice
1936
Horace J. Twilling
The Garden Murder Case
1936
Inspector Markham
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
Thomas Hayden
In Person
1935
Judge Thaddeus Parks
It's in the Air
1935
W. R. Gridley
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
Egeus - Father to Hermia
Redheads on Parade
1935
Minor Role (uncredited)
Broadway Gondolier
1935
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Men Without Names
1935
Andrew Webster
Traveling Saleslady
1935
Rufus Twitchell
Straight from the Heart
1935
Austin
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
Louis Lamson
One More Spring
1935
Mr. Sheridan
The Secret Bride
1934
Willis Martin
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934
J. Walter Delmar
Gridiron Flash
1934
Howard Smith
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
Claude Drumm
One Exciting Adventure
1934
Fussli
The Cat's-Paw
1934
Silk Hat McGee
We're Rich Again
1934
Wilbur Page
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
Chester A. Sharpe
The Show-Off
1934
Mr. 'Pa'
The Poor Rich
1934
Tom Hopkins
Convention City
1933
J.B. Honeywell
King for a Night
1933
Rev. John Williams
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
Joe Martel
Dancing Lady
1933
Jasper Bradley, Sr.
Saturday's Millions
1933
Ezra Fowler
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
Mr. James Smith
Dinner at Eight
1933
Ed Loomis
The Stranger's Return
1933
Allen Redfield
I Love That Man
1933
Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
Heroes for Sale
1933
George Gibson
Tomorrow at Seven
1933
Austin Winters
Lilly Turner
1933
Dr. Hawley
Central Airport
1933
Mr. Blaine
He Learned About Women
1933
Appleby
Our Betters
1933
Thornton Clay
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
No Man of Her Own
1932
Charlie Vane
If I Had a Million
1932
Prison Priest (uncredited)
Three on a Match
1932
Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
A Successful Calamity
1932
Connors, Wilton's Butler
Big City Blues
1932
Station Agent
Week-End Marriage
1932
Doctor
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
Martin Collins
The Star Witness
1931
Pa Leeds
Man to Man
1930
Barber John Martin Bolton
Radio-Mania
1922
Arthur Wyman
The Misleading Lady
1916
Stephen Weatherbee
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
Judge
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
Samuel Breckenbridge
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Mitchell Edwards
Honeymoon
1947
Congressman Crenshaw
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
Farrow
Blondie's Holiday
1947
Samuel Breckenridge
Easy to Wed
1946
Homer Henshaw
Cinderella Jones
1946
scenes deleted
Colonel Effingham's Raid
1946
Maj. Anthony T. Hickock (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Carlson (uncredited)
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
We're Rich Again
1934
performer: "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes"
Self
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
Documentary short uncredited
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
Short
Himself
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Our Gang Story
1994
Video documentary
Judge
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
1975
Documentary
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1969
TV Movie documentary
Actor 'Dinner at Eight' (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Documentary
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (uncredited)
My Country 'Tis of Thee
1950
Documentary short
John Quincy Adams (uncredited)
March On, America!
1942
Short
John Quincy Adams (uncredited)
A Dream Comes True
1935
Documentary short
Egeus (uncredited)
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