Biography
Howard M. Mitchell's screen acting career got off to a good start with a pair of silent serials,
Beloved Adventurer (1914) and The Road of Strife (1915). Mitchell kept busy as a director in the 1920s, returning to acting in 1935. His roles were confined to bits and walk-ons as guards, storekeepers, judges, and especially police chiefs. Howard M. Mitchell closed out his career playing a train conductor in the classic "B" melodrama
The Narrow Margin (1952). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide