Hume Cronyn
July 18, 1911 (114 years old) in London, Ontario, Canada
Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. 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
Credits
- 2004 · A Separate Peace as Professor Carmichael
- 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2001 · Off Season as Sam Clausner
- 2001 · Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self
- 2001 · Rope Unleashed as Self
- 2000 · Yesterday's Children as Old Sonny Sutton
- 2000 · Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self
- 1999 · Santa and Pete as Saint Nick
- 1999 · Omnibus: Television's Golden Age as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Sea People as Mr. John McRae
- 1998 · Angel Passing as Pianist
- 1997 · Alone as John Webb
- 1997 · 12 Angry Men as Juror 9
- 1996 · Marvin's Room as Marvin Wakefield
- 1995 · People: A Musical Celebration as Grandpa (voice)
- 1994 · Camilla as Ewald
- 1994 · Hitchcock: Alfred the Great as Himself
- 1993 · To Dance with the White Dog as Robert Samuel Peek
- 1993 · The Pelican Brief as Justice Rosenberg
- 1992 · Broadway Bound as Ben
- 1991 · Christmas on Division Street as Cleveland Meriwether
- 1990 · Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1989 · Age-Old Friends as John Cooper
- 1989 · Day One as James F. Byrnes
- 1989 · The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness as Narrator (Voice)
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · Cocoon: The Return as Joe Finley
- 1987 · *batteries not included as Frank Riley
- 1987 · Foxfire as Hector Nations
- 1985 · Cocoon as Joseph Finley
- 1985 · Brewster's Millions as Rupert Horn
- 1984 · Impulse as Dr. Carr
- 1982 · The World According to Garp as Mr. Fields
- 1981 · Rollover as Maxwell Emery
- 1981 · Honky Tonk Freeway as Sherm
- 1981 · The Gin Game as Weller Martin
- 1978 · The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- 1974 · The Parallax View as Bill Rintels
- 1974 · Conrack as Skeffington
- 1970 · There Was a Crooked Man... as Dudley Whinner
- 1969 · Gaily, Gaily as Tim Grogan
- 1969 · The Arrangement as Arthur Houghton
- 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