- Nacimiento
- Defunción15 de junio de 2003 · Fairfield, Connecticut, Estados Unidos (un cáncer de próstata)
- Nombre de nacimientoHume Blake Cronyn Jr.
- Altura1.68 m
- Hume Cronyn nació el 18 de julio de 1911 en Londres, Ontario, Canadá. Fue un actor y productor, conocido por Cocoon (1985), Náufragos (1944) y La sombra de una duda (1943). Estuvo casado con Susan Cooper, Jessica Tandy y Emily Woodruff. Murió el 15 de junio de 2003 en Connecticut, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesSusan Cooper(20 de julio de 1996 - 15 de junio de 2003) (su muerte)Jessica Tandy(27 de septiembre de 1942 - 11 de septiembre de 1994) (su muerte, 2 niños)Emily Woodruff(22 de junio de 1935 - 18 de junio de 1936) (divorciado)
- Niños
- PadresHume Blake Cronyn Sr.Frances Amelia (Labatt) Cronyn
- FamiliaresKatherine Cronyn(Grandchild)Robert Whitehead(Cousin)
- Although not widely known, he had a glass eye, having lost the real one to cancer.
- He met wife Jessica Tandy in 1940 and they married in 1942.
- During the shooting of There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) Cronyn was diagnosed with optic cancer which required the removal of an eye. Although this news upset director Joseph L. Mankiewicz very much, Cronyn was more than willing to work longer hours to complete his scenes and make him available for the necessary surgery.
- Was once a boxer who was nominated for the Canadian Olympic boxing team.
- 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.
- The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
- To act you must have a sense of truth and some degree of dedication.
- [he one rule he follows as an actor] If you're doing the devil, look for the angel in him. If you're doing the angel, look for the devil in him.
- [on why he asked to be released from his MGM contract] I remember beginning to realize that I was never going to do anything in California, but be another useful character actor, and that could continue that career indefinitely if I were prepared to.
- [on working with Hitchcock] It was all cut in his head. You shot from the angle he wanted shot, with the result that very little film ended up on the floor. You really felt that you were in the presence of someone who was a real master of the craft.
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