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Acting

Hume Cronyn

Career: Active from 1943 to 2001, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 29
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Shadow of a Doubt
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 52 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Hume Cronyn Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.9, average 5.4
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Adrenaline
3.9, average 4.8
Violence
3.3, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 4
Character Study 3
Historical Drama 2
World War II 2
Psychological 2
Psychological Drama 2
Dialogue-Driven 2
Psychological Tension 2
Human Spirit 2
Uplifting 2
Character-Driven 2
Thought-Provoking 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

80

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Rope

Story

2000s

3 titles · average score 58

A Separate Peace

53

as Professor Carmichael

Off Season

50

as Sam Clausner

Yesterday's Children

72

as Old Sonny Sutton

1990s

13 titles · average score 64

Santa and Pete

64

as Saint Nick

Sea People

58

as Mr. John McRae

Seasons of Love

TV show · as Lonzo

Angel Passing

as Pianist

Alone

62

as John Webb

12 Angry Men

77

as Juror 9

Marvin's Room

71

as Marvin Wakefield

People: A Musical Celebration

as Grandpa (voice)

Camilla

47

as Ewald

To Dance with the White Dog

74

as Robert Samuel Peek

The Pelican Brief

58

as Justice Rosenberg

Christmas on Division Street

68

as Cleveland Meriwether

1980s

16 titles · average score 61

Age-Old Friends

as John Cooper

Day One

62

as James F. Byrnes

The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness

as Narrator (Voice)

Cocoon: The Return

44

as Joe Finley

American Experience

75

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

*batteries not included

60

as Frank Riley

Foxfire

69

as Hector Nations

Cocoon

70

as Joseph Finley

Impulse

50

as Dr. Carr

The World According to Garp

69

as Mr. Fields

Rollover

45

as Maxwell Emery

The Gin Game

as Weller Martin

1970s

3 titles · average score 68

The Parallax View

74

as Bill Rintels

Conrack

67

as Skeffington

There Was a Crooked Man...

64

as Dudley Whinner

1960s

7 titles · average score 58

The Arrangement

35

as Arthur Houghton

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Lewis Avery Filer

Gaily, Gaily

49

as Tim Grogan

Hamlet

73

as Polonius

Cleopatra

64

as Sosigenes

Sunrise at Campobello

66

as Louis Howe

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

69

TV show · as Charles King

1950s

15 titles · average score 72

A Doll's House

as Krogstad

The Moon and Sixpence

as Dirk Stroeve

Naked City

69

TV show · as Professor Henry J. Fallon

DuPont Show of the Month

TV show · as Uncle Pio

Crowded Paradise

as George Heath

Telephone Time

67

TV show

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Henry Daw / Fitzhugh Oldham

Climax!

51

TV show · as Reverend Mr. Muldoon

Letter to Loretta

70

TV show · as Hap Martin / Henry Goodens

Omnibus

75

TV show

People Will Talk

81

as Rodney Elwell

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Nils Krogstad / Hector

1940s

22 titles · average score 67

Under Capricorn

48

Screenplay, Adaptation

The Bride Goes Wild

65

as John McGrath

Rope

82

Adaptation

Brute Force

81

as Capt. Munsey

The Beginning or the End

64

as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Green Years

63

as Papa Leckie

The Postman Always Rings Twice

81

as Arthur Keats

A Letter for Evie

68

as John Phineas McPherson

The Sailor Takes a Wife

70

as Freddie Potts

The Seventh Cross

86

as Paul Roeder

Shadow of a Doubt

88

as Herbie Hawkins

The Cross of Lorraine

61

as Duval