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Job Actor
Years active 1934-2003
Known for Nosey parkers, henpecked husbands, sadistic pint-size villains
Top Roles Louis Howe, Herbie Hawkins, Paul Roeder, Prof. Rodney Elwell, Duval
Top Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance, Film Adaptation, Thriller/Suspense, War
Top Topics World War II, Book-Based, Romance (Drama), Based on Play, Romance (Comic)
Top Collaborators Jessica Tandy, Audrey Totter, Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Director), Morris Ankrum, Byron Foulger, Stanley Blystone, Wallace Ford
Also Born on July 18
Also Born in 1911
Also a Cancer

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Sunrise at Campobello
Sunrise at Campobello
Role: Louis Howe

1960
Director:
Vincent J. Donehue

Sunrise at Campobell...

Fan rating: 9.00
Shadow of a Doubt
Shadow of a Doubt
Role: Herbie Hawkins

1943
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock

Shadow of a Doubt

Fan rating: 8.14
The Seventh Cross
The Seventh Cross
Role: Paul Roeder

1944
Director:
Fred Zinnemann

The Seventh Cross

Fan rating: 7.50
People Will Talk
People Will Talk
Role: Prof. Rodney Elwell

1951
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

People Will Talk

Fan rating: 7.11
Lifeboat
Lifeboat
Role: Stanley 'Sparks' Garett

1944
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock

Lifeboat

Fan rating: 7.00

Hume Cronyn Overview:

Legendary character actor, Hume Cronyn, was born Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. on Jul 18, 1911 in London, Canada. Cronyn died at the age of 91 on Jun 15, 2003 in Fairfield, CT .

MINI BIO:

With reedy voice, narrow face and frowning brows, Canadian actor Hume Cronyn often played nosey parkers, henpecked husbands, or sadistic pint-size villains. He was little seen in pictures after the 1940s, preferring stage work with his wife Jessica Tandy (married 1942), although he contributed to the scripts of a couple of Hitchcock films in the late 1940s.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Cronyn was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1944Best Supporting ActorThe Seventh Cross (1944)Paul RoederNominated
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Cronyn was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame .

Hume Cronyn BlogHub Articles:

Birthday of the Week: Hume Cronyn

By Beth Daniels on Jul 19, 2014 From Mildred's Fatburgers

Born Hume Blake Cronyn, Ontario July 18, 1911 to June 15, 2003 </hr> A Terrible Liar,By Hume Cronyn, Key Porter Books, 1991 </hr> How Did I Not Know He Was Canadian? Born in London, Ontario, to a well-placed family in the city, Hume Cronyn was sent to boarding school at age six and ult... Read full article

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Hume Cronyn Quotes:

Herbie Hawkins: Well, if I was gonna kill you, I wouldn't do a dumb thing like hitting you on the head. First of all, I don't like the fingerprint angle. Of course, I could always wear gloves. Press your hands against the pipe after you were dead and make you look like a suicide. Except it don't seem hardly likely that you'd beat yourself to death with a club. I'd murder you so it didn't look like murder.
Cleopatra: The way to prevent war is to be ready for it!
Sosigenes: Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war?
— From: Cleopatra
Herbie Hawkins: He ran plunk right into the propeller of an airplane.
Joseph Newton: Ooh boy!
Herbie Hawkins: Cut him all to pieces. Had to identify him by his clothes. His shirts were all initialed.
Eleanor Roosevelt: I have this naive view that you should pursue principles without calculating the consequences.
Louis Howe: You're no politician.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Louis, why in hell must you keep pacing up and down?
Louis Howe: I'm nervous!
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Hume Cronyn Facts
1932: Member of the Kappa Alpha Society at the McGill University.
Son: Christopher Cronyn, daughter: Tandy Cronyn.
1990: He and wife Jessica Tandy were both honored with the American National Medal of the Arts from the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington DC.
His father Hume Blake Cronyn has an observatory dedicated to him in the University of Western Ontario. The refractor telescope was the largest ever built in the western hemisphere at the time.
Although not widely known, he had a glass eye, having lost the real one to cancer.
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