Hume Cronyn
Actor
Born July 18, 1911 in London, Ontario, Canada
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.
Filmography
Rope
A Separate Peace
Professor Carmichael
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
The John Garfield Story
Self
Off Season
Sam Clausner
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Self
Rope Unleashed
Self
Yesterday's Children
Old Sonny Sutton
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Self
Santa and Pete
Saint Nick
Seasons of Love
Lonzo
Sea People
Mr. John McRae
Angel Passing
Pianist
Alone
John Webb
12 Angry Men
Juror 9
Marvin's Room
Marvin Wakefield
People: A Musical Celebration
Grandpa (voice)
Camilla
Ewald
To Dance with the White Dog
Robert Samuel Peek
The Pelican Brief
Justice Rosenberg
Broadway Bound
Ben
Christmas on Division Street
Cleveland Meriwether
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Age-Old Friends
John Cooper
Day One
James F. Byrnes
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
Narrator (Voice)
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Cocoon: The Return
Joe Finley
*batteries not included
Frank Riley
Foxfire
Hector Nations
Cocoon
Joseph Finley
Brewster's Millions
Rupert Horn
Impulse
Dr. Carr
The Dollmaker
The World According to Garp
Mr. Fields
American Playhouse
Weller Martin
Rollover
Maxwell Emery
Honky Tonk Freeway
Sherm
The Gin Game
Weller Martin
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
The Parallax View
Bill Rintels
Conrack
Skeffington
There Was a Crooked Man...
Dudley Whinner
Gaily, Gaily
Tim Grogan
The Arrangement
Arthur Houghton
Hawaii Five-O
Lewis Avery Filer
Hamlet
Polonius
Cleopatra
Sosigenes
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Sunrise at Campobello
Louis Howe
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Charles King
A Doll's House
Krogstad
The Moon and Sixpence
Dirk Stroeve
Naked City
Professor Henry J. Fallon
DuPont Show of the Month
Uncle Pio
Crowded Paradise
George Heath
Telephone Time
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Henry Daw
The Fourposter
Climax!
Reverend Mr. Muldoon
Letter to Loretta
Hap Martin
General Electric Theater
Ralph Whitemore
Omnibus
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nils Krogstad
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Wilbur Meeler
People Will Talk
Prof. Rodney Elwell
Under Capricorn
Top o' the Morning
Hughie Devine
Suspense
Dr. Violet
Studio One
Ben Hecht
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Bride Goes Wild
John McGrath
Rope
Brute Force
Capt. Munsey
The Beginning or the End
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Secret Heart
Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
The Green Years
Papa Leckie
A Letter for Evie
John Phineas McPherson
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Arthur Keats
The Sailor Takes a Wife
Freddie Potts
Ziegfeld Follies
Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
Main Street After Dark
Keller
Blonde Fever
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
The Seventh Cross
Paul Roeder
Lifeboat
Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
The Cross of Lorraine
Duval
Phantom of the Opera
Gerard
Shadow of a Doubt
Herbie Hawkins