Hume Cronyn
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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 acting roles garnered critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination, three Emmy Awards, and two Tony Awards.
Known for
Credits
Cleopatra (1963)
as Sosigenes
12 Angry Men (1997)
as Juror 9
The Pelican Brief (1993)
as Justice Rosenberg
*batteries not included (1987)
as Frank Riley
Brewster's Millions (1985)
as Rupert Horn
Cocoon (1985)
as Joseph Finley
Marvin's Room (1996)
as Marvin Wakefield
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
as Self
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
as Herbie Hawkins
Brute Force (1947)
as Capt. Munsey
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
as Joe Finley
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great (1994)
as Himself
The Parallax View (1974)
as Bill Rintels
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
as Arthur Keats
Lifeboat (1944)
as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
as Gerard
The World According to Garp (1982)
as Mr. Fields
Off Season (2001)
as Sam Clausner
People Will Talk (1951)
as Prof. Rodney Elwell
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
Hamlet (1964)
as Polonius
Day One (1989)
as James F. Byrnes
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
Rollover (1981)
as Maxwell Emery
Conrack (1974)
as Skeffington
The Arrangement (1969)
as Arthur Houghton
Impulse (1984)
as Dr. Carr
The Seventh Cross (1944)
as Paul Roeder
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
as Dudley Whinner
Sea People (1999)
as Mr. John McRae
Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
as Sherm
Yesterday's Children (2000)
as Old Sonny Sutton
Camilla (1994)
as Ewald
Alone (1997)
as John Webb
The Green Years (1946)
as Papa Leckie
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001)
as Self
Santa and Pete (1999)
as Saint Nick
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
as Tim Grogan
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
as Louis Howe
The John Garfield Story (2003)
as Self
The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
as John McGrath
Rope Unleashed (2001)
as Self
The Beginning or the End (1947)
as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Crowded Paradise (1956)
as George Heath
The Secret Heart (1946)
as Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
Top o' the Morning (1949)
as Hughie Devine
Christmas on Division Street (1991)
as Cleveland Meriwether
A Separate Peace (2004)
as Professor Carmichael
Blonde Fever (1944)
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
The Gin Game (1981)
as Weller Martin
Foxfire (1987)
as Hector Nations
A Doll's House (1959)
as Krogstad
Broadway Bound (1992)
as Ben
To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
as Robert Samuel Peek
A Letter for Evie (1946)
as John Phineas McPherson
Main Street After Dark (1945)
as Keller
Angel Passing (1998)
as Pianist
Age-Old Friends (1989)
as John Cooper
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
as Duval
People: A Musical Celebration (1995)
as Grandpa (voice)
The Moon and Sixpence (1959)
as Dirk Stroeve
The Fourposter (1955)
Actor
The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
as Freddie Potts
An African love story (1996)
as Self
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film (2000)
as Self
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age (1999)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness (1989)
as Narrator (Voice)