Hume Cronyn

Born: 1911-07-18 in London, Ontario, Canada

Died: 2003-06-15

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2004

A Separate Peace as Professor Carmichael

1999

Sea People as Mr. John McRae
Santa and Pete as Saint Nick
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age as Self - Narrator (voice)

1998

Angel Passing as Pianist

1997

12 Angry Men as Juror 9
Alone as John Webb

1996

Marvin's Room as Marvin Wakefield

1995

People: A Musical Celebration as Grandpa (voice)

1994

Camilla as Ewald
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great as Himself

1993

The Pelican Brief as Justice Rosenberg
To Dance with the White Dog as Robert Samuel Peek

1992

Broadway Bound as Ben

1991

Christmas on Division Street as Cleveland Meriwether

1990

Night of 100 Stars III as Self

1989

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)

1988

American Experience as Narrator (voice)
Cocoon: The Return as Joe Finley

1987

*batteries not included as Frank Riley
Foxfire as Hector Nations

1985

Cocoon as Joseph Finley
Brewster's Millions as Rupert Horn

1984

Impulse as Dr. Carr
The Dollmaker ... (Teleplay)

1982

The World According to Garp as Mr. Fields

1981

Rollover as Maxwell Emery
Honky Tonk Freeway as Sherm
The Gin Game as Weller Martin

1978

The Kennedy Center Honors as Self

1974

Conrack as Skeffington
The Parallax View as Bill Rintels

1970

There Was a Crooked Man... as Dudley Whinner

1969

The Arrangement as Arthur Houghton
Gaily, Gaily as Tim Grogan

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Lewis Avery Filer

1964

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Polonius

1963

Cleopatra as Sosigenes

1962

The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1960

The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Charles King
Sunrise at Campobello as Louis Howe

1959

The Moon and Sixpence as Dirk Stroeve
A Doll's House as Krogstad

1958

Naked City as Professor Henry J. Fallon

1957

DuPont Show of the Month as Uncle Pio

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
Crowded Paradise as George Heath
Telephone Time

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Henry Daw
The Fourposter

1954

Climax! as Reverend Mr. Muldoon
The Marriage as Ben Marriott

1953

Letter to Loretta as Hap Martin
General Electric Theater as Ralph Whitemore

1952

Omnibus

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nils Krogstad
People Will Talk as Prof. Rodney Elwell
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Wilbur Meeler

1949

Under Capricorn ... (Screenplay)
Suspense as Dr. Violet
Top o' the Morning as Hughie Devine

1948

Studio One as Ben Hecht
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
Rope ... (Adaptation)
The Bride Goes Wild as John McGrath

1947

Brute Force as Capt. Munsey
The Beginning or the End as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

1946

The Green Years as Papa Leckie
The Secret Heart as Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
A Letter for Evie as John Phineas McPherson
The Postman Always Rings Twice as Arthur Keats

1945

Ziegfeld Follies as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
Main Street After Dark as Keller
The Sailor Takes a Wife as Freddie Potts

1944

Lifeboat as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
Blonde Fever as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1943

Shadow of a Doubt as Herbie Hawkins
Phantom of the Opera as Gerard
The Cross of Lorraine as Duval