Hume Cronyn
Born in London, Ontario, Canada — Jul 18 1911• Died Jun 15 2003
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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 acti…
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American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Hawaii Five-O
Lewis Avery Filer
Climax!
Reverend Mr. Muldoon
Naked City
Professor Henry J. Fallon
Studio One
Ben Hecht
The Philco Television Playhouse
Suspense
Dr. Violet
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Henry Daw
Telephone Time
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Charles King
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
DuPont Show of the Month
Uncle Pio
Letter to Loretta
Hap Martin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nils Krogstad
Cleopatra
Sosigenes
Cocoon
Joseph Finley
*batteries not included
Frank Riley
Rope
Writing
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Wilbur Meeler
Brute Force
Capt. Munsey
Shadow of a Doubt
Herbie Hawkins
General Electric Theater
Ralph Whitemore
Brewster's Millions
Rupert Horn
12 Angry Men
Juror 9
Cocoon: The Return
Joe Finley
The Parallax View
Bill Rintels
Lifeboat
Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
Marvin's Room
Marvin Wakefield
The Pelican Brief
Justice Rosenberg
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Conrack
Skeffington
Alone
John Webb
Day One
James F. Byrnes
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
The Dollmaker
Writing
Phantom of the Opera
Gerard
The Beginning or the End
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
People Will Talk
Prof. Rodney Elwell
The World According to Garp
Mr. Fields
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Arthur Keats
Under Capricorn
Writing
Santa and Pete
Saint Nick
Seasons of Love
Lonzo
Impulse
Dr. Carr
The Green Years
Papa Leckie
The Arrangement
Arthur Houghton
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Self
Gaily, Gaily
Tim Grogan
Off Season
Sam Clausner
Age-Old Friends
John Cooper
Honky Tonk Freeway
Sherm
Angel Passing
Pianist
Sunrise at Campobello
Louis Howe
Rollover
Maxwell Emery
Ziegfeld Follies
Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
There Was a Crooked Man...
Dudley Whinner
The Bride Goes Wild
John McGrath
Rope Unleashed
Self
Camilla
Ewald
The Cross of Lorraine
Duval
A Doll's House
Krogstad
The Moon and Sixpence
Dirk Stroeve
The Marriage
Ben Marriott
Christmas on Division Street
Cleveland Meriwether
The Seventh Cross
Paul Roeder
Broadway Bound
Ben
Main Street After Dark
Keller
Foxfire
Hector Nations
Hamlet
Polonius
A Separate Peace
Professor Carmichael
Sea People
Mr. John McRae
The Fourposter
The John Garfield Story
Self
The Gin Game
Weller Martin
The Sailor Takes a Wife
Freddie Potts
Yesterday's Children
Old Sonny Sutton
The Secret Heart
Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
To Dance with the White Dog
Robert Samuel Peek
Top o' the Morning
Hughie Devine
Blonde Fever
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Himself
People: A Musical Celebration
Grandpa (voice)
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Self
Crowded Paradise
George Heath
Rope
Writing
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
Narrator (Voice)
A Letter for Evie
John Phineas McPherson
An African love story
Self