Hume Cronyn

Had a longstanding working relationship with Alfred Hitchcock, making his film debut in Shadow of a Doubt (1943), appearing in many episodes of the director's TV series and cowriting the screen

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*batteries not included 1987 -Frank Riley

Actor

Film

A Separate Peace -Prof. Carmichael

Actor

Age-Old Friends

Actor

An African Love Story

Actor

Christmas on Division Street -Cleveland Meriwether

Actor

Foxfire -Hector Nations

Actor

Love on the Land -Brewster

Actor

Off Season -Sam Clausner

Actor

Omnibus: Television's Golden Age

Host

Santa and Pete -Saint Nicholas

Actor

Sea People -John McRae

Actor

To Dance with the White Dog -Sam Peek

Actor

Yesterday's Children -Sonny Sutton

Actor

The Pelican Brief 1998 -Justice Abraham Rosenberg

Actor

Film

Marvin's Room 1997 -Marvin

Actor

Film

Cocoon 1985 -Joe Finley

Actor

Film

The Parallax View 1974 -Editor Edgar Rintels

Actor

Film

There Was a Crooked Man 1970 -Dudley Whinner

Actor

Film

Gaily, Gaily 1969 -"Honest" Tim Grogan

Actor

Film

The Arrangement 1969 -Arthur

Actor

Film

Hamlet 1964 -Polonius

Actor

Film

Cleopatra 1963 -Sosigenes

Actor

Film

Sunrise at Campobello 1960 -Louis Howe

Actor

Film

Crowded Paradise 1956 -George Heath

Actor

Film

People Will Talk 1951 -Prof. Elwell

Actor

Film

Rope 1948

Screenwriter

Film

Brute Force 1947 -Capt. Munsey

Actor

Film

The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 -Arthur Keats

Actor

Film

Lifeboat 1944 -Stanley Garett

Actor

Film

Shadow of a Doubt 1943 -Herbie Hawkins

Actor

Film

Santa and Pete -Saint Nick

Actor

Film

Sea People

Actor

Film

The Beginning or the End -Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Actor

Film

The Bride Goes Wild -John McGrath

Actor

Film

The Cross of Lorraine -Duval

Actor

Film

The Dollmaker

Screenwriter

Film

The Gin Game

Actor

Film

The Green Years -Papa Leckie

Actor

Film

The Sailor Takes a Wife -Freddie

Actor

Film

The Secret Heart -Man

Voice

Film

The Seventh Cross -Paul Roeder

Actor

Film

The World According to Garp -Mr. Fields

Actor

Film

The Phantom of the Opera -Gerard

Actor

Film

To Dance with the White Dog -Sam Peek

Actor

Film

Top o' the Morning -Hughie Devine

Actor

Film

Under Capricorn

Screenwriter

Film

Ziegfeld Follies -Monty

Actor

Film

Love on the Land -Lonzo

Actor

Film

Main Street After Dark -Keller

Actor

Film

Honky Tonk Freeway -Sherm

Actor

Film

Impulse -Dr. Carr

Actor

Film

People: A Musical Celebration of Diversity

Voice

Film

Rollover -Maxwell Emery

Actor

Film

Off Season

Actor

Film

Camilla -Ewald

Actor

Film

Christmas on Division Street

Actor

Film

Cocoon: The Return -Joe Finley

Actor

Film

Conrack -Skeffington

Actor

Film

Day One -James F. Byrnes

Actor

Film

Foxfire -Hector

Actor

Film

Grow Old Along with Me

Actor

Film

12 Angry Men -Juror 9

Actor

Film

A Doll's House -Nils Krogstad

Actor

Film

A Letter for Evie -John Phineas McPherson

Actor

Film

A Separate Peace

Actor

Film

Age Old Friends -John Cooper

Actor

Film

Alone

Actor

Film

Brewster's Millions -Rupert Horn

Actor

Film

Broadway Bound -Ben

Actor

Film

Highlights

Decided to become an actor while in college.

Made his debut with the Montreal Repertory Company before heading to America; his first notable Broadway role was in Three Men on a Horse (1935).

Had a longstanding working relationship with Alfred Hitchcock, making his film debut in Shadow of a Doubt (1943), appearing in many episodes of the director's TV series and cowriting the screen

Often costarred on stage and screen with his second wife, Jessica Tandy, including in the Pulitzer-winning play The Gin Game and the 1946 film The Green Years, in which he played her fat

Wore a glass eye, having lost an eye to cancer in the 1960s.