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Hume Cronyn

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: Acting

Born: London, Ontario, Canada, 1911-07-19

Died: 2003-06-15

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Herbie Hawkins	75
2	1943	Phantom of the Opera	Gerard	62
3	1943	The Cross of Lorraine	Duval	62
4	1944	Lifeboat	Stanley "Sparks" Garrett	74
5	1944	The Seventh Cross	Paul Roeder	67
6	1944	Blonde Fever	Restaurant Patron (uncredited)	44
7	1945	Main Street After Dark	Keller	48
8	1945	Ziegfeld Follies	Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")	61
9	1945	The Sailor Takes a Wife	Freddie Potts	60
10	1946	A Letter for Evie	John Phineas McPherson	67
11	1946	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Arthur Keats	70
12	1946	The Green Years	Papa Leckie	65
13	1946	The Secret Heart	Dinner Party Guest (Voice)	63
14	1947	The Beginning or the End	Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer	65
15	1947	Brute Force	Capt. Munsey	73
16	1948	The Bride Goes Wild	John McGrath	60
17	1949	Top o' the Morning	Hughie Devine	58
18	1951	People Will Talk	Prof. Rodney Elwell	71
19	1955	The Fourposter		0
20	1956	Crowded Paradise	George Heath	0
21	1959	The Moon and Sixpence	Dirk Stroeve	0
22	1959	A Doll's House	Krogstad	100
23	1960	Sunrise at Campobello	Louis Howe	60
24	1963	Cleopatra	Sosigenes	70
25	1964	Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre	Polonius	65
26	1969	The Arrangement	Arthur Houghton	67
27	1969	Gaily, Gaily	Tim Grogan	40
28	1970	There Was a Crooked Man...	Dudley Whinner	68
29	1974	Conrack	Skeffington	68
30	1974	The Parallax View	Bill Rintels	68
31	1981	The Gin Game	Weller Martin	80
32	1981	Honky Tonk Freeway	Sherm	52
33	1981	Rollover	Maxwell Emery	51
34	1982	The World According to Garp	Mr. Fields	67
35	1984	Impulse	Dr. Carr	51
36	1985	Brewster's Millions	Rupert Horn	66
37	1985	Cocoon	Joseph Finley	66
38	1987	Foxfire	Hector Nations	70
39	1987	*batteries not included	Frank Riley	67
40	1988	Cocoon: The Return	Joe Finley	65
41	1989	The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness	Narrator (Voice)	0
42	1989	Day One	James F. Byrnes	63
43	1989	Age-Old Friends	John Cooper	77
44	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
45	1991	Christmas on Division Street	Cleveland Meriwether	62
46	1992	Broadway Bound	Ben	63
47	1993	The Pelican Brief	Justice Rosenberg	66
48	1993	To Dance with the White Dog	Robert Samuel Peek	70
49	1994	Hitchcock: Alfred the Great	Himself	0
50	1994	Camilla	Ewald	57
51	1995	People: A Musical Celebration	Grandpa (voice)	62
52	1996	Marvin's Room	Marvin Wakefield	67
53	1997	12 Angry Men	Juror 9	77
54	1997	Alone	John Webb	65
55	1998	Angel Passing	Pianist	0
56	1999	Sea People	Mr. John McRae	63
57	1999	Santa and Pete	Saint Nick	53
58	2000	Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film	Self	70
59	2000	Yesterday's Children	Old Sonny Sutton	73
60	2001	Rope Unleashed	Self	69
61	2001	Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood	Self	72
62	2001	Off Season	Sam Clausner	32
63	2003	The John Garfield Story	Self	80
64	2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self	70
65	2004	A Separate Peace	Professor Carmichael	48

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Ben Marriott	63
4	1948	Studio One	Ben Hecht	50
5	1948	Studio One	Mr. Moore	50
6	1948	Studio One	Ellis Davenport	50
7	1948	Studio One	Pop Thatcher	50
8	1949	Suspense	Dr. Violet	49
9	1949	Suspense		49
10	1949	Suspense	Sig	49
11	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Wilbur Meeler	73
12	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Nils Krogstad	86
13	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Hector	86
14	1952	Omnibus		60
15	1953	General Electric Theater	Ralph Whitemore	63
16	1953	General Electric Theater	Benedict Arnold Brummel	63
17	1953	Letter to Loretta	Hap Martin	65
18	1953	Letter to Loretta	Henry Goodens	65
19	1954	The Marriage	Ben Marriott	0
20	1954	Climax!	Reverend Mr. Muldoon	33
21	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Henry Daw	77
22	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Fitzhugh Oldham	77
23	1956	Telephone Time		63
24	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Uncle Pio	68
25	1958	Naked City	Professor Henry J. Fallon	55
26	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Charles King	62
27	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
28	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Lewis Avery Filer	71
29	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
30	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74