Hume Cronyn
Birthday: 1911-07-18
Place of Birth: London, Ontario, Canada
Biography: 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.
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Cocoon
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves en...
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Brewster's Millions
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can succ...
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Cocoon: The Return
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all d...
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*batteries not included
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to fo...
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The World According to Garp
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical f...
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Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie ...
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People Will Talk
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy...
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Cleopatra
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
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12 Angry Men
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the gui...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband....
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There Was a Crooked Man...
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of hi...
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Marvin's Room
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow....
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Lifeboat
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship th...
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Brute Force
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-trippi...
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Impulse
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent ...
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Phantom of the Opera
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i...
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Day One
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the he...
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Rollover
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of hi...
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Yesterday's Children
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, ...
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The Parallax View
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a...
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The Arrangement
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown....
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People: A Musical Celebration
In how many wonderful ways are we different from each other' What if the world were to rejoice in ou...
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Sunrise at Campobello
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especial...
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Off Season
After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befri...
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Santa and Pete
This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols who is spending his first Christma...
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The Beginning or the End
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hirosh...
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The Seventh Cross
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven...
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The Cross of Lorraine
French soldiers surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison of war camp. From the...
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Camilla
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia wher...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...
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Main Street After Dark
A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang....
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Sea People
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works clos...
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The Green Years
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a...
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The Bride Goes Wild
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg,...
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately st...
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive fi...
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To Dance with the White Dog
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and...
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Gaily, Gaily
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago ...
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Foxfire
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when...
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Top o' the Morning
A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance ...
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)....
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The Fourposter
The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four-poster bed, taking them thr...
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A Letter for Evie
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire ...
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Christmas on Division Street
A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends....
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Rope Unleashed
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Art...
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Age-Old Friends
John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fal...
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The Sailor Takes a Wife
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and m...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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Alone
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rare...
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The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
To one man, it was perfect natural resource to benefit thousands of people. To another, it was a bea...
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Angel Passing
An aging concert pianist in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimers, revisits his past. When he co...
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Conrack
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the ...
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The Pelican Brief
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-r...
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Broadway Bound
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage...
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Crowded Paradise
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord interven...
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The Gin Game
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike...
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Blonde Fever
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership t...
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A Doll's House
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded....
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The Secret Heart
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death ...
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Ziegfeld Follies
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his gr...
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a...
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The John Garfield Story
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he d...
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The Moon and Sixpence
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Sea...
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Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Documentary the career of Alfred Hitchcock with Tippi Hedren bringing up allegations against the dir...
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Omnibus: Television's Golden Age
Revisiting the Omnibus series from the "golden age" of television. This live 90-minute weekly progra...
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