Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor and writer.
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Hume Cronyn Biography / Wiki
| Name | Hume Cronyn |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Date of Birth | July 19, 1911 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 91 |
| Deathday | 2003-06-15 |
Hume Cronyn Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| *batteries not included | Frank Riley | 1987-12-18 | 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… |
| Santa and Pete | Saint Nick | 1999-12-05 | This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols (James Earl Jones) who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grand… |
| Sea People | Mr. John McRae | 1999-06-21 | 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… |
| To Dance with the White Dog | Robert Samuel Peek | 1993-12-05 | When Sam Peek’s beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant…. |
| The Fourposter | 1955-01-01 | 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… | |
| Rope Unleashed | Self | 2001-03-06 | A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly m… |
| Age-Old Friends | John Cooper | 1989-12-16 | 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 … |
| Alone | John Webb | 1997-12-21 | 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… |
| Crowded Paradise | George Heath | 1956-06-21 | A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé’s racist landlord intervenes…. |
| People: A Musical Celebration | Grandpa (voice) | 1995-01-01 | 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 (H… |
| Angel Passing | 1998-01-01 | 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… | |
| Brute Force | Capt. Munsey | 1947-07-10 | 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… |
| Off Season | Sam Clausner | 2001-12-16 | 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… |
| Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Polonius | 1964-09-23 | A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York…. |
| Foxfire | Hector Nations | 1987-12-13 | 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… |
| Christmas on Division Street | Cleveland Meriwether | 1991-12-15 | A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends…. |
| Broadway Bound | Ben | 1992-03-22 | Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents’ marriage ends…. |
| The Gin Game | Weller Martin | 1981-06-23 | Set in an old folks home, senior citizen Weller Martin (Hume Cronyn) has the disease of Old Age, meets an old woman named Fonsia Dorsey (Jessica Tandy… |
| There Was a Crooked Man… | Dudley Whinner | 1970-09-18 | Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 … |
| Impulse | Dr. Carr | 1984-09-28 | After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior…… |
| Rollover | Maxwell Emery | 1981-10-11 | An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos…. |
| Sunrise at Campobello | Louis Howe | 1960-09-28 | The story of Franklin Roosevelt’s bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being… |
| The Seventh Cross | Paul Roeder | 1944-07-24 | 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 … |
| The Green Years | Papa Leckie | 1946-07-04 | 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… |
| The Bride Goes Wild | John McGrath | 1948-03-03 | 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… |
| Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock’s Favorite Film | Self | 2000-01-03 | A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943)…. |
| A Letter for Evie | John Phineas McPherson | 1946-01-28 | 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-ha… |
| The Sailor Takes a Wife | Freddie Potts | 1945-12-28 | 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… |
| A Doll’s House | Krogstad | 1959-11-15 | A wealthy woman’s attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded…. |
| The Moon and Sixpence | Dirk Stroeve | 1959-10-30 | A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas…. |
| Cocoon: The Return | Joe Finley | 1988-09-13 | 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 … |
| People Will Talk | Prof. Rodney Elwell | 1951-08-29 | Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius’s unorthodo… |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Arthur Keats | 1946-05-02 | A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband…. |
| Day One | James F. Byrnes | 1989-05-12 | Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to bui… |
| Top o’ the Morning | Hughie Devine | 1949-08-31 | A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone…and romance the local policeman’s daughter…. |
| The World According to Garp | Mr. Fields | 1982-08-13 | A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns… |
| Marvin’s Room | Marvin Wakefield | 1996-12-18 | A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow…. |
| The Parallax View | Bill Rintels | 1974-06-14 | An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator’s assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corpora… |
| The Arrangement | Arthur Houghton | 1969-11-18 | An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown…. |
| The Beginning or the End | Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1947-02-19 | The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama…. |
| The Cross of Lorraine | Duval | 1943-11-12 | French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp…. |
| Gaily, Gaily | Tim Grogan | 1969-12-16 | 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… |
| Cocoon | Joseph Finley | 1985-06-21 | When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor…. |
| Shadow of a Doubt | Herbie Hawkins | 1943-01-15 | Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives won… |
| Cleopatra | Sosigenes | 1963-06-12 | 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… |
| Camilla | Ewald | 1994-11-25 | Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly… |
| Main Street After Dark | Keller | 1945-01-01 | A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang…. |
| Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood | Self | 2001-01-01 | Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox’s 1963 film “Cleopatra,” then the most expensive film of all time…. |
| The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 | 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… |
| Brewster’s Millions | Rupert Horn | 1985-05-22 | Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days with… |
| Lifeboat | Sparks | 1944-01-28 | 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… |
| Seasons of Love | Lonzo Brewster | 1999-03-07 | Sprawling tale spanning 50 years in the life of the fictional Linthorne family as seen through the eyes of the rugged head of the clan as he and his w… |
| 12 Angry Men | Juror 9 | 1997-08-17 | 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 … |
| Yesterday’s Children | Old Sonny Sutton | 2000-10-15 | Jenny Cole lives with her husband and son in middle America. She is pregnant and starts to have very vivid dreams about a small city that has a big ch… |
| The Pelican Brief | Justice Rosenberg | 1993-09-17 | 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…. |
| Blonde Fever | Restaurant Patron | 1944-12-05 | Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultr… |
| A Separate Peace | Professor Carmichael | 2004-09-12 | Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun…. |
| Phantom of the Opera | Gerard | 1943-08-12 | Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids … |
| Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-01-01 | Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America’s most celebrated indigenous art form. Award… |
| Conrack | Skeffington | 1974-03-27 | A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor … |
| Honky Tonk Freeway | Sherm | 1981-08-21 | 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 … |
| Ziegfeld Follies | Monty (segment A Sweepstakes Ticket) | 1945-08-26 | The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style…. |
| The Secret Heart | Dinner Party Guest (Voice) | 1946-12-25 | 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… |
| Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 | A celebrity benefit for The Actors’ Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Foxfire | Writer | 1987-12-13 | 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… |
| Rope | Writer | 1948-03-11 | Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death…. |
| Under Capricorn | Screenplay | 1949-09-08 | In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arr… |
| The Dollmaker | Teleplay | 1984-05-13 | During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying… |
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