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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 18, 1911
Died
June 15, 2003
Place of Birth
London, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
- Hume Blake Cronyn
- Hume Blake Cronyn Jr.
Hume Cronyn
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.8
Professor Carmichael
A Separate Peace
2004
7.0
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
8.0
Self
The John Garfield Story
2003
3.2
Sam Clausner
Off Season
2001
7.2
Self
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001
6.9
Self
Rope Unleashed
2001
7.3
Old Sonny Sutton
Yesterday's Children
2000
7.0
Self
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
2000
5.3
Saint Nick
Santa and Pete
1999
🎬
0.0
Self - Narrator (voice)
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
1999
Credits
A Separate Peace
as Professor Carmichael
2004
4.8
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
The John Garfield Story
as Self
2003
8.0
Off Season
as Sam Clausner
2001
3.2
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
as Self
2001
7.2
Rope Unleashed
as Self
2001
6.9
Yesterday's Children
as Old Sonny Sutton
2000
7.3
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
as Self
2000
7.0
Santa and Pete
as Saint Nick
1999
5.3
🎬
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1999
0.0
Sea People
as Mr. John McRae
1999
6.3
Angel Passing
as Pianist
1998
0.0
Alone
as John Webb
1997
6.5
12 Angry Men
as Juror 9
1997
7.7
Marvin's Room
as Marvin Wakefield
1996
6.7
People: A Musical Celebration
as Grandpa (voice)
1995
6.2
Camilla
as Ewald
1994
5.5
🎬
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
as Himself
1994
0.0
To Dance with the White Dog
as Robert Samuel Peek
1993
7.0
The Pelican Brief
as Justice Rosenberg
1993
6.6
Broadway Bound
as Ben
1992
6.3
Christmas on Division Street
as Cleveland Meriwether
1991
6.2
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
Age-Old Friends
as John Cooper
1989
7.7
Day One
as James F. Byrnes
1989
5.8
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
as Narrator (Voice)
1989
0.0
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
Cocoon: The Return
as Joe Finley
1988
6.5
*batteries not included
as Frank Riley
1987
6.7
Foxfire
as Hector Nations
1987
7.0
Cocoon
as Joseph Finley
1985
6.6
Brewster's Millions
as Rupert Horn
1985
6.6
Impulse
as Dr. Carr
1984
5.1
The World According to Garp
as Mr. Fields
1982
6.7
Rollover
as Maxwell Emery
1981
5.1
Honky Tonk Freeway
as Sherm
1981
5.2
The Gin Game
as Weller Martin
1981
8.0
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
The Parallax View
as Bill Rintels
1974
6.8
Conrack
as Skeffington
1974
6.8
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Dudley Whinner
1970
6.8
Gaily, Gaily
as Tim Grogan
1969
3.7
The Arrangement
as Arthur Houghton
1969
6.5
Hawaii Five-O
as Lewis Avery Filer
1968
7.1
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Polonius
1964
6.5
Cleopatra
as Sosigenes
1963
7.0
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Sunrise at Campobello
as Louis Howe
1960
6.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Charles King
1960
6.2
A Doll's House
as Krogstad
1959
10.0
The Moon and Sixpence
as Dirk Stroeve
1959
0.0
Naked City
as Professor Henry J. Fallon
1958
5.5
DuPont Show of the Month
as Uncle Pio
1957
6.8
Crowded Paradise
as George Heath
1956
0.0
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self
1956
5.9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Henry Daw
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Fitzhugh Oldham
1955
7.8
The Fourposter
1955
0.0
Climax!
as Reverend Mr. Muldoon
1954
3.3
🎬
The Marriage
as Ben Marriott
1954
0.0
Letter to Loretta
as Hap Martin
1953
6.5
Letter to Loretta
as Henry Goodens
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Ralph Whitemore
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Benedict Arnold Brummel
1953
6.4
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Nils Krogstad
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Hector
1951
8.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Wilbur Meeler
1951
7.2
People Will Talk
as Prof. Rodney Elwell
1951
7.1
Top o' the Morning
as Hughie Devine
1949
5.4
Suspense
as Dr. Violet
1949
4.9
Suspense
as Sig
1949
4.9
Suspense
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Ben Hecht
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Ellis Davenport
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Mr. Moore
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Pop Thatcher
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Ben Marriott
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
The Bride Goes Wild
as John McGrath
1948
6.2
Brute Force
as Capt. Munsey
1947
7.3
The Beginning or the End
as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
1947
6.1
The Secret Heart
as Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
1946
6.3
The Green Years
as Papa Leckie
1946
6.3
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Arthur Keats
1946
7.0
A Letter for Evie
as John Phineas McPherson
1946
6.7
The Sailor Takes a Wife
as Freddie Potts
1945
6.0
Ziegfeld Follies
as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
1945
6.0
Main Street After Dark
as Keller
1945
4.0
Blonde Fever
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944
3.9
The Seventh Cross
as Paul Roeder
1944
6.7
Lifeboat
as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
1944
7.4
The Cross of Lorraine
as Duval
1943
6.3
Phantom of the Opera
as Gerard
1943
6.2
Shadow of a Doubt
as Herbie Hawkins
1943
7.5