People
Hume Cronyn
- Name: Hume Cronyn
- Birthday: 1911-07-18
- Also known as: Hume Blake Cronyn,Hume Blake Cronyn Jr.
- Place of birth: London, Ontario, Canada
- Popularity: 1.0423
Biography:
Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. (July 18, 1911 - June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor and writer. Early film roles included Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Lifeboat (1944). He performed frequently alongside his second wife Jessica Tandy, including in the films The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985), and *batteries not included (1987). Their marriage lasted from 1942 until her death in 1994. He wrote the play Foxfire and television film The Dollmaker with his third wife, Susan Cooper. Many of his wide-ranging stage and screen acting roles garnered critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination, three Emmy Awards, and two Tony Awards.
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| A Separate Peace as Professor Carmichael | 2004-09-12 |
| Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self | 2003-04-03 |
| The John Garfield Story as Self | 2003-02-03 |
| Off Season as Sam Clausner | 2001-12-16 |
| Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self | 2001-04-03 |
| Rope Unleashed as Self | 2001-03-06 |
| Yesterday's Children as Old Sonny Sutton | 2000-10-15 |
| Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self | 2000-01-03 |
| Santa and Pete as Saint Nick | 1999-12-05 |
| Omnibus: Television's Golden Age as Self - Narrator (voice) | 1999-12-03 |
| Sea People as Mr. John McRae | 1999-06-21 |
| Angel Passing as Pianist | 1998-01-01 |
| Alone as John Webb | 1997-12-21 |
| 12 Angry Men as Juror 9 | 1997-08-17 |
| Marvin's Room as Marvin Wakefield | 1996-12-18 |
| People: A Musical Celebration as Grandpa (voice) | 1995-01-01 |
| Camilla as Ewald | 1994-11-25 |
| Hitchcock: Alfred the Great as Himself | 1994-07-01 |
| To Dance with the White Dog as Robert Samuel Peek | 1993-12-05 |
| The Pelican Brief as Justice Rosenberg | 1993-09-17 |
| Broadway Bound as Ben | 1992-03-22 |
| Christmas on Division Street as Cleveland Meriwether | 1991-12-15 |
| Night of 100 Stars III as Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Age-Old Friends as John Cooper | 1989-12-16 |
| Day One as James F. Byrnes | 1989-05-12 |
| The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness as Narrator (Voice) | 1989-01-01 |
| Cocoon: The Return as Joe Finley | 1988-09-13 |
| *batteries not included as Frank Riley | 1987-12-18 |
| Foxfire as Hector Nations | 1987-12-13 |
| Cocoon as Joseph Finley | 1985-06-21 |
| Brewster's Millions as Rupert Horn | 1985-05-22 |
| Impulse as Dr. Carr | 1984-09-28 |
| The World According to Garp as Mr. Fields | 1982-07-23 |
| Rollover as Maxwell Emery | 1981-10-11 |
| Honky Tonk Freeway as Sherm | 1981-08-21 |
| The Gin Game as Weller Martin | 1981-04-21 |
| The Parallax View as Bill Rintels | 1974-06-14 |
| Conrack as Skeffington | 1974-03-27 |
| There Was a Crooked Man... as Dudley Whinner | 1970-09-18 |
| Gaily, Gaily as Tim Grogan | 1969-12-16 |
| The Arrangement as Arthur Houghton | 1969-11-18 |
| Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Polonius | 1964-09-23 |
| Cleopatra as Sosigenes | 1963-06-12 |
| Sunrise at Campobello as Louis Howe | 1960-09-28 |
| A Doll's House as Krogstad | 1959-11-15 |
| The Moon and Sixpence as Dirk Stroeve | 1959-10-30 |
| Crowded Paradise as George Heath | 1956-06-21 |
| The Fourposter | 1955-01-01 |
| People Will Talk as Prof. Rodney Elwell | 1951-08-29 |
| Top o' the Morning as Hughie Devine | 1949-08-31 |
| The Bride Goes Wild as John McGrath | 1948-03-03 |
| Brute Force as Capt. Munsey | 1947-07-16 |
| The Beginning or the End as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1947-02-19 |
| The Secret Heart as Dinner Party Guest (Voice) | 1946-12-25 |
| The Green Years as Papa Leckie | 1946-07-04 |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice as Arthur Keats | 1946-05-02 |
| A Letter for Evie as John Phineas McPherson | 1946-01-28 |
| The Sailor Takes a Wife as Freddie Potts | 1945-12-28 |
| Ziegfeld Follies as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket") | 1945-08-26 |
| Main Street After Dark as Keller | 1945-01-12 |
| Blonde Fever as Restaurant Patron (uncredited) | 1944-12-05 |
| The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder | 1944-07-24 |
| Lifeboat as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett | 1944-01-28 |
| The Cross of Lorraine as Duval | 1943-11-12 |
| Phantom of the Opera as Gerard | 1943-08-12 |
| Shadow of a Doubt as Herbie Hawkins | 1943-01-12 |
