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Hume Cronyn (1911–2003)

Author of A Terrible Liar

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About the Author

Hume Cronyn was born in London, Ontario, Canada on July 18, 1911. He attended Ridley College, McGill University, Montreal for pre-law and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria for acting. He had simultaneous careers on stage and screen and had a show more significant Broadway presence, in the form of actor, director, producer and writer since the 1930s. He married actress Jessica Tandy in 1942, and the two went on to perform in numerous plays and movies together. His first appeared on Broadway in Three Men on a Horse in 1934. His other Broadway credits include Room Service, Boy Meets Girl, The Fourposter, A Delicate Balance, and The Gin Game. He won a Tony Award in 1964 for his performance as Polonius in Hamlet. In 1994, Cronyn and Tandy won the first Tony Award for lifetime theatrical achievement. His screen debut was in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. His other screen credits include Lifeboat, Brute Force, The Green Years, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included, To Dance with the White Dog, and Camilla. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Rope in 1948 and Under Capricorn in 1949. He was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to drama in 1988. He wrote an autobiography in 1991 entitled A Terrible Liar: A Memoir. He died of prostate cancer on June 15, 2003. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Image credit: Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy,
1988 Emmy Awards
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Works by Hume Cronyn

A Terrible Liar (1991) 41 copies
The Dollmaker [1984 TV movie] — Screenwriter — 2 copies
Bake My Brain (1993) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Pelican Brief [1993 film] (1993) 263 copies, 2 reviews
Cleopatra [1963 film] (1963) — Actor — 207 copies, 5 reviews
*Batteries Not Included [1987 film] (1987) — Actor — 193 copies, 5 reviews
Rope [1948 film] (1948) — Story — 158 copies, 1 review
Shadow of a Doubt [1943 film] (1943) — Actor — 145 copies, 5 reviews
Cocoon [1985 film] (1985) 144 copies, 1 review
Lifeboat [1944 film] (1944) — Actor — 104 copies
The Postman Always Rings Twice [1946 film] (1946) — Actor — 91 copies, 2 reviews
Phantom of the Opera [1943 film] (1943) 56 copies, 3 reviews
The World According to Garp [1982 film] (1982) — Actor — 53 copies, 1 review
Ziegfeld Follies [1945 film] (1994) 39 copies, 1 review
Cocoon: The Return [1988 film] (1988) — Actor — 34 copies
People Will Talk [1951 film] (1951) — Actor — 30 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 2 (2006) — Actor — 27 copies
Brute Force [1947 film] (1947) — Actor — 27 copies, 2 reviews
Hamlet [1964 film] (2001) 21 copies
To Dance with the White Dog [1993 TV movie] (1993) — Actor — 19 copies
Santa & Pete [1999 TV movie] (1999) — Actor — 13 copies
Foxfire [1987 TV movie] (1987) — Actor — 13 copies, 2 reviews
The Arrangement [1967 film] (1969) — Actor — 13 copies
The Seventh Cross [1944 film] (1944) 8 copies, 4 reviews
The Beginning or the End [1947 film] (1947) — Actor — 4 copies, 1 review
Sea People [1999 film] (2001) — Actor — 3 copies
Rollover [1981 film] (2005) 3 copies
The Bride Goes Wild [1948 film] (2015) — Actor — 2 copies, 1 review

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