Hume Cronyn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-07-19 (92 years old)

Deathday

2003-06-15

Place of Birth

London, Ontario, Canada

Hume Cronyn

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 Awar...

Acting

1985

Cocoon

as Joseph Finley

1985

Brewster's Millions

as Rupert Horn

1987

1988

Cocoon: The Return

as Joe Finley

1943

Shadow of a Doubt

as Herbie Hawkins

1951

People Will Talk

as Prof. Rodney Elwell

1963

Cleopatra

as Sosigenes

1997

12 Angry Men

as Juror 9

1970

1996

Marvin's Room

as Marvin Wakefield

1944

Lifeboat

as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett

1947

Brute Force

as Capt. Munsey

1984

Impulse

as Dr. Carr

1989

Day One

as James F. Byrnes

1981

Rollover

as Maxwell Emery

2000

Yesterday's Children

as Old Sonny Sutton

1974

The Parallax View

as Bill Rintels

1969

The Arrangement

as Arthur Houghton

1995

1960

2001

Off Season

as Sam Clausner

1999

Santa and Pete

as Saint Nick

2004

A Separate Peace

as Professor Carmichael

1947

The Beginning or the End

as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

1944

The Seventh Cross

as Paul Roeder

1994

Camilla

as Ewald

1999

Sea People

as Mr. John McRae

1946

The Green Years

as Papa Leckie

1948

The Bride Goes Wild

as John McGrath

1993

To Dance with the White Dog

as Robert Samuel Peek

1969

Gaily, Gaily

as Tim Grogan

1987

Foxfire

as Hector Nations

1949

Top o' the Morning

as Hughie Devine

1946

A Letter for Evie

as John Phineas McPherson

1991

Christmas on Division Street

as Cleveland Meriwether

2001

1989

Age-Old Friends

as John Cooper

1945

The Sailor Takes a Wife

as Freddie Potts

1997

Alone

as John Webb

1998

Angel Passing

as Pianist

1974

Conrack

as Skeffington

1993

The Pelican Brief

as Justice Rosenberg

1992

1956

Crowded Paradise

as George Heath

1981

The Gin Game

as Weller Martin

1944

Blonde Fever

as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1959

A Doll's House

as Krogstad

1946

The Secret Heart

as Dinner Party Guest (Voice)

1945

Ziegfeld Follies

as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")

1981

1959

The Moon and Sixpence

as Dirk Stroeve

Production

1984

The Dollmaker

as Teleplay

1987

Foxfire

as Writer

1948

Rope

as Adaptation

1949

Under Capricorn

as Screenplay

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Rope

as Story

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