Hume Blake Cronyn Jr.
| Sign | Cancer |
| Born | Jul 18, 1911 London, Canada |
| Died | Jun 15, 2003 Fairfield, CT |
| Age | Died at 91 |
Hume Cronyn | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1934-2003 |
| Known for | Nosey parkers, henpecked husbands, sadistic pint-size villains |
| Top Roles | Prof. Rodney Elwell, Louis Howe, Paul Roeder, Herbie Hawkins, Stanley 'Sparks' Garett |
| Top Genres | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Film Adaptation, Thriller/Suspense, War |
| Top Topics | World War II, Book-Based, Romance (Comic) |
| Top Collaborators | Audrey Totter, Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Director), Darryl F. Zanuck (Producer) |
| Shares birthday with | Richard Dix, Chill Wills, Red Skelton see more.. |
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:
.Although Cronyn was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.
Academy Awards
| Year | Award | Film name | Role | Result |
| 1944 | Best Supporting Actor | The Seventh Cross (1944) | Paul Roeder | Nominated |
Cronyn was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame .
BlogHub Articles:
Birthday of the Week:
By Beth Daniels on Jul 19, 2014 From Mildred's FatburgersBorn Hume Blake Cronyn, Ontario July 18, 1911 to June 15, 2003 A Terrible Liar,By , Key Porter Books, 1991 How Did I Not Know He Was Canadian? Born in London, Ontario, to a well-placed family in the city, was sent to boarding school at age six and ult... Read full article
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Hume Cronyn Quotes:
Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't like *reading* a speech.
Louis Howe: Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?
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.
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.
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