Acting
Hume Cronyn
EN cinema · 72 credits
Born
18 July 1911
Died
15 June 2003 (aged 91)
Birthplace
London, Ontario, Canada
Also known as Hume Blake Cronyn · Hume Blake Cronyn Jr.
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.
Known for
Filmography
Rope
Story
James Dean: Forever Young
as Self (archive footage)
A Separate Peace
as Professor Carmichael
Off Season
as Sam Clausner
Rope Unleashed
as Self
Yesterday's Children
as Old Sonny Sutton
Santa and Pete
as Saint Nick
Sea People
as Mr. John McRae
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
1999
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Angel Passing
as Pianist
12 Angry Men
as Juror 9
Alone
as John Webb
Marvin's Room
as Marvin Wakefield
People: A Musical Celebration
as Grandpa (voice)
Camilla
as Ewald
To Dance with the White Dog
as Robert Samuel Peek
The Pelican Brief
as Justice Rosenberg
Christmas on Division Street
as Cleveland Meriwether
Day One
as James F. Byrnes
Age-Old Friends
as John Cooper
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
as Narrator (Voice)
Cocoon: The Return
as Joe Finley
*batteries not included
as Frank Riley
Foxfire
as Hector Nations, Writer
Cocoon
as Joseph Finley
Brewster's Millions
as Rupert Horn
Impulse
as Dr. Carr
The Dollmaker
Teleplay
The World According to Garp
as Mr. Fields
Rollover
as Maxwell Emery
The Gin Game
as Weller Martin
Honky Tonk Freeway
as Sherm
The Parallax View
as Bill Rintels
Conrack
as Skeffington
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Dudley Whinner
The Arrangement
as Arthur Houghton
Gaily, Gaily
as Tim Grogan
Hamlet
as Polonius
Cleopatra
as Sosigenes
Sunrise at Campobello
as Louis Howe
A Doll's House
as Krogstad
The Moon and Sixpence
as Dirk Stroeve
Crowded Paradise
as George Heath
People Will Talk
as Rodney Elwell
Top o' the Morning
as Hughie Devine
Under Capricorn
Screenplay, Adaptation
The Bride Goes Wild
as John McGrath
Rope
Adaptation
Brute Force
as Capt. Munsey
The Beginning or the End
as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Arthur Keats
The Green Years
as Papa Leckie
A Letter for Evie
as John Phineas McPherson
The Secret Heart
as Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
Main Street After Dark
as Keller
The Sailor Takes a Wife
as Freddie Potts
Ziegfeld Follies
as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
Lifeboat
as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
The Seventh Cross
as Paul Roeder
Blonde Fever
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Herbie Hawkins
Phantom of the Opera
as Gerard
