Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-07-19

Deathday

2003-06-15 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

London, Ontario, Canada

Also Known As

Hume Blake Cronyn

Hume Cronyn

Biography

Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor and writer.

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Known For

6.6%

The Pelican Brief

Sep 17, 1993

6.6%

Cocoon

Jun 21, 1985

7.5%

Shadow of a Doubt

Jan 15, 1943

6.5%

Cocoon: The Return

Sep 13, 1988

7.0%

Cleopatra

Jun 12, 1963

6.7%

*batteries not included

Dec 18, 1987

6.6%

Brewster's Millions

May 22, 1985

6.7%

Marvin's Room

Dec 18, 1996

7.4%

Lifeboat

Jan 28, 1944

7.7%

12 Angry Men

Aug 17, 1997

6.7%

The World According to Garp

Aug 13, 1982

7.1%

The Postman Always Rings Twice

May 2, 1946

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Acting

2004

A Separate Peace as Professor Carmichael

2003		Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2003		The John Garfield Story as Self

2001		Off Season as Sam Clausner
2001		Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self
2001		Rope Unleashed as Self

2000		Yesterday's Children as Old Sonny Sutton
2000		Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self

1999		Santa and Pete as Saint Nick
1999		Sea People as Mr. John McRae

1998

Angel Passing

1997		Alone as John Webb
1997		12 Angry Men as Juror 9

1996

Marvin's Room as Marvin Wakefield

1995

People: A Musical Celebration as Grandpa (voice)

1994		Camilla as Ewald
1994		Hitchcock: Alfred the Great as Himself

1993		To Dance with the White Dog as Robert Samuel Peek
1993		The Pelican Brief as Justice Rosenberg

1992

Broadway Bound as Ben

1991

Christmas on Division Street as Cleveland Meriwether

1990

Night of 100 Stars III as Self

1989		Age-Old Friends as John Cooper
1989		Day One as James F. Byrnes
1989		The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness as Narrator (Voice)

1988		American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988		Cocoon: The Return as Joe Finley

1987		*batteries not included as Frank Riley
1987		Foxfire as Hector Nations

1985		Cocoon as Joseph Finley
1985		Brewster's Millions as Rupert Horn

1984

Impulse as Dr. Carr

1982

The World According to Garp as Mr. Fields

1981		Rollover as Maxwell Emery
1981		Honky Tonk Freeway as Sherm
1981		The Gin Game as Weller Martin

1978

The Kennedy Center Honors as Self

1974		The Parallax View as Bill Rintels
1974		Conrack as Skeffington

1970

There Was a Crooked Man... as Dudley Whinner

1969		Gaily, Gaily as Tim Grogan
1969		The Arrangement as Arthur Houghton

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Lewis Avery Filer

1964

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Polonius

1963

Cleopatra as Sosigenes

1962

The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1960		Sunrise at Campobello as Louis Howe
1960		The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Charles King

1959		A Doll's House as Krogstad
1959		The Moon and Sixpence as Dirk Stroeve

1958

Naked City as Professor Henry J. Fallon

1957

DuPont Show of the Month as Uncle Pio

1956		Crowded Paradise as George Heath
1956		Telephone Time

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Henry Daw
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Fitzhugh Oldham
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Self - Actor and Friend
1955		The Fourposter

1954		Climax! as Reverend Mr. Muldoon
1954		The Marriage as Ben Marriott

1953		Letter to Loretta as Hap Martin
1953		Letter to Loretta as Henry Goodens
1953		General Electric Theater as Ralph Whitemore
1953		General Electric Theater as Benedict Arnold Brummel

1952

Omnibus

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nils Krogstad
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Hector
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Wilbur Meeler
1951		People Will Talk as Prof. Rodney Elwell

1949		Top o' the Morning as Hughie Devine
1949		Suspense as Dr. Violet
1949		Suspense
1949		Suspense as Sig

1948		Studio One as Ben Hecht
1948		Studio One as Mr. Moore
1948		Studio One as Ellis Davenport
1948		Studio One as Pop Thatcher
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse as Ben Marriott
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948		The Bride Goes Wild as John McGrath

1947		Brute Force as Capt. Munsey
1947		The Beginning or the End as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

1946		The Secret Heart as Dinner Party Guest (Voice)
1946		The Green Years as Papa Leckie
1946		The Postman Always Rings Twice as Arthur Keats
1946		A Letter for Evie as John Phineas McPherson

1945		The Sailor Takes a Wife as Freddie Potts
1945		Ziegfeld Follies as Monty (segment "A Sweepstakes Ticket")
1945		Main Street After Dark as Keller

1944		Blonde Fever as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944		The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
1944		Lifeboat as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett

1943		The Cross of Lorraine as Duval
1943		Phantom of the Opera as Gerard
1943		Shadow of a Doubt as Herbie Hawkins

Writing

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Rope as Story

1987

Foxfire as Writer

1984

The Dollmaker as Teleplay

1949

Under Capricorn as Screenplay

1948

Rope as Adaptation