Hume Cronyn
Born: 1911-07-18
• London, Ontario, Canada
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.
Filmography
A Separate Peace
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
The John Garfield Story
Off Season
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Rope Unleashed
Yesterday's Children
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Santa and Pete
No Image
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
Sea People
Angel Passing
Alone
12 Angry Men
Marvin's Room
People: A Musical Celebration
Camilla
No Image
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
To Dance with the White Dog
The Pelican Brief
Broadway Bound
Christmas on Division Street
Night of 100 Stars III
Age-Old Friends
Day One
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
Cocoon: The Return
*batteries not included
Foxfire
Cocoon
Brewster's Millions
Impulse
The World According to Garp
Rollover
Honky Tonk Freeway
The Gin Game
The Parallax View
Conrack
There Was a Crooked Man...
Gaily, Gaily
The Arrangement
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Cleopatra
Sunrise at Campobello
A Doll's House
The Moon and Sixpence
Crowded Paradise
The Fourposter
People Will Talk
Top o' the Morning
The Bride Goes Wild
Brute Force
The Beginning or the End
The Secret Heart
The Green Years
The Postman Always Rings Twice
A Letter for Evie
The Sailor Takes a Wife
Ziegfeld Follies
Main Street After Dark
Blonde Fever
The Seventh Cross
Lifeboat
The Cross of Lorraine
Phantom of the Opera
Shadow of a Doubt