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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3001 |
| Birthday | 1911-07-18 |
| Place of Birth | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As | Hume Blake Cronyn, Hume Blake Cronyn Jr., |
1985
Cocoon
6.637/1398
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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Cocoon
1985
Brewster's Millions
6.6/655
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anyt...
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Brewster's Millions
1987
*batteries not included
6.701/789
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his...
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*batteries not included
1988
Cocoon: The Return
6.477/1019
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows...
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Cocoon: The Return
1982
The World According to Garp
6.672/377
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns...
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The World According to Garp
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
7.497/1146
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grow...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1951
People Will Talk
7.139/97
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.
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People Will Talk
1963
Cleopatra
7.052/844
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his g...
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Cleopatra
1997
12 Angry Men
7.685/437
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...
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12 Angry Men
1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.065/372
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
6.818/137
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise...
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1996
Marvin's Room
6.711/629
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
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Marvin's Room
1944
Lifeboat
7.36/477
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-bo...
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Lifeboat
1947
Brute Force
7.328/209
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...
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Brute Force
1984
Impulse
5.208/53
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
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Impulse
1943
Phantom of the Opera
6.191/212
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful...
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Phantom of the Opera
1989
Day One
6.222/9
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to bui...
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Day One
1981
Rollover
5.221/28
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial...
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Rollover
2000
Yesterday's Children
7.35/30
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, J...
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Yesterday's Children
1974
The Parallax View
6.837/362
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corpora...
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The Parallax View
1969
The Arrangement
6.586/64
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
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The Arrangement
1995
People: A Musical Celebration
6.6/5
In how many wonderful ways are we different from each other' What if the world were to rejoice in our differences' Cara and her lovable grandfather em...
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People: A Musical Celebration
1960
Sunrise at Campobello
6.033/15
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From b...
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Sunrise at Campobello
2001
Off Season
4.714/7
After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man, he begins to suspect that the...
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Off Season
1999
Santa and Pete
5.75/4
This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grandson Pete is riveted...
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Santa and Pete
2004
A Separate Peace
5.333/9
Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.
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A Separate Peace
1947
The Beginning or the End
6.375/12
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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The Beginning or the End
1944
The Seventh Cross
6.837/43
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee...
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The Seventh Cross
1943
The Cross of Lorraine
6.4/24
French soldiers surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison of war camp. From there they plan an uprising.
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The Cross of Lorraine
1994
Camilla
5.587/23
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly...
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Camilla
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/7
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1945
Main Street After Dark
4.5/6
A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.
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Main Street After Dark
1999
Sea People
6.571/7
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she fee...
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Sea People
1946
The Green Years
6.438/16
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...
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The Green Years
1948
The Bride Goes Wild
6.714/7
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and ha...
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The Bride Goes Wild
1964
Hamlet
6.917/6
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but perf...
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Hamlet
2001
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
7.231/13
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
1993
To Dance with the White Dog
7.2/11
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
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To Dance with the White Dog
1969
Gaily, Gaily
4.333/9
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who...
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Gaily, Gaily
1987
Foxfire
7.192/13
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handl...
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Foxfire
1949
Top o' the Morning
5.625/8
A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.
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Top o' the Morning
2000
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
7.25/4
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
1955
The Fourposter
10/1
The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four-poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness an...
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The Fourposter
1946
A Letter for Evie
6.857/7
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-hal...
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A Letter for Evie
1991
Christmas on Division Street
6.45/10
A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.
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Christmas on Division Street
2001
Rope Unleashed
7.313/8
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly m...
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Rope Unleashed
1989
Age-Old Friends
7.7/3
John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse...
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Age-Old Friends
1945
The Sailor Takes a Wife
8/2
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each...
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The Sailor Takes a Wife
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4/2
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
1997
Alone
6.714/7
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a...
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Alone
1989
The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
9/1
To one man, it was perfect natural resource to benefit thousands of people. To another, it was a beautiful, sacred land that mustn't be defiled under...
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The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
1998
Angel Passing
8/1
An aging concert pianist in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimers, revisits his past. When he comes back to his home, now occupied by an artist, a...
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Angel Passing
1974
Conrack
6.782/39
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor...
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Conrack
1993
The Pelican Brief
6.597/1754
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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The Pelican Brief
1992
Broadway Bound
6.5/4
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.
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Broadway Bound
1956
Crowded Paradise
8/1
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
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Crowded Paradise
1981
The Gin Game
8.5/2
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any oth...
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The Gin Game
1944
Blonde Fever
3.929/8
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry...
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Blonde Fever
1959
A Doll's House
10/2
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
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A Doll's House
1946
The Secret Heart
6.5/10
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase...
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The Secret Heart
1945
Ziegfeld Follies
6.017/58
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
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Ziegfeld Follies
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway
5.28/25
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...
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Honky Tonk Freeway
2003
The John Garfield Story
8.4/5
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the roug...
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The John Garfield Story
1959
The Moon and Sixpence
7/1
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
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The Moon and Sixpence
1994
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
7/2
Documentary the career of Alfred Hitchcock with Tippi Hedren bringing up allegations against the director.
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Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1999
Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
0/0
Revisiting the Omnibus series from the "golden age" of television. This live 90-minute weekly program hosted by Alastair Cooke brought an extraordinar...
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Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
1996
An African love story
10/1
Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy travel to Africa in 1966, accompanied by photographer and former game warden Simon Trevor. Almost 30 years later, Cron...
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