
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.
88 acting credits
Acting · 88

Hawaii Five-O
1968

American Experience
1988

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Naked City
1958

Climax!
1954

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Studio One
1948

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Omnibus
1952

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Suspense
1949

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960

Telephone Time
1956

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

Cleopatra
1963

DuPont Show of the Month
1957

Letter to Loretta
1953

The Pelican Brief
1993

12 Angry Men
1997

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Cocoon
1985

General Electric Theater
1953

*batteries not included
1987

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

The World According to Garp
1982

Marvin's Room
1996

Brewster's Millions
1985

Shadow of a Doubt
1943

Cocoon: The Return
1988

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946

Lifeboat
1944

The Parallax View
1974

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003

Brute Force
1947

Phantom of the Opera
1943

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970

Seasons of Love
1999

Ziegfeld Follies
1945

Night of 100 Stars III
1990

People Will Talk
1951

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001

Camilla
1994

Yesterday's Children
2000
The Marriage
1954

Rollover
1981

Conrack
1974

Hamlet
1964

Impulse
1984

The Arrangement
1969

Alone
1997

The Secret Heart
1946

Honky Tonk Freeway
1981

Day One
1989

Blonde Fever
1944

Angel Passing
1998

The Seventh Cross
1944

Off Season
2001

The Cross of Lorraine
1943

Gaily, Gaily
1969

Sunrise at Campobello
1960

The Beginning or the End
1947

The John Garfield Story
2003

A Doll's House
1959

The Green Years
1946

Santa and Pete
1999

Foxfire
1987

To Dance with the White Dog
1993

Age-Old Friends
1989

Main Street After Dark
1945

A Letter for Evie
1946

Rope Unleashed
2001

The Moon and Sixpence
1959
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994

Sea People
1999

A Separate Peace
2004

Broadway Bound
1992

Christmas on Division Street
1991

The Gin Game
1981

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
2000

The Bride Goes Wild
1948

People: A Musical Celebration
1995

The Sailor Takes a Wife
1945

Crowded Paradise
1956

The Fourposter
1955

Top o' the Morning
1949

The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
1989
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
1999
An African love story
1996