- Grapewin Street in Corona, California, where he died, is named after him.
- Died the same year that his most famous film, "The Wizard of Oz", first came to television, but did not live long enough to see the telecast, which took place in November of 1956.
- His best known film role was Dorothy Gale's Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Harlan Briggs served as Grapewin's stand-in for this film.
- Appeared in six Best Picture Oscar nominees: Alice Adams (1935), Libeled Lady (1936), The Good Earth (1937), Captains Courageous (1937), The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
- Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum.
- He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Wizard of Oz (1939) & The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
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