Actor/writer/producer Hume Cronyn had a long and extensive career both in films and in the theater, including many pairings with his wife Jessica Tandy.
You want range as an actor? He made his movie debut as the mild-mannered cardigan-wearing Herb in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt in 1943, and in 1947, played the sadistic prison guard Munsey in Jules Dassin’s Brute Force.
Too many other notable roles to mention in a career which spanned seven – YES SEVEN – decades.
In 1945 he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for The Seventh Cross.
