Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/18/1911
Place of Birth
London, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
Hume Blake CronynHume Blake Cronyn Jr.
Hume Cronyn
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, incl...
Known For
Cleopatra
as Sosigenes
Cocoon
as Joseph Finley
Lifeboat
as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
Crowded Paradise
as George Heath
12 Angry Men
as Juror 9
Brute Force
as Capt. Munsey
The Arrangement
as Arthur Houghton
Conrack
as Skeffington
Day One
as James F. Byrnes
The Pelican Brief
as Justice Rosenberg
Rollover
as Maxwell Emery
Impulse
as Dr. Carr
Broadway Bound
as Ben
Rope Unleashed
as Self
The Fourposter
Unknown Role
Camilla
as Ewald
*batteries not included
as Frank Riley
Shadow of a Doubt
as Herbie Hawkins
Sea People
as Mr. John McRae
Alone
as John Webb