Hume Cronyn
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Hume Cronyn 🇨🇦

Hume Cronyn (Known as "Hume Blake Cronyn Jr.")
Tony Award-Winning Actor, Producer, Longtime Stage Partner of Jessica Tandy
Born 18 July 1911 🇨🇦 London, Canada
Passed Away 15 June 2003 Fairfield, United States
Lifespan 91 years old
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Distinguished London, Ontario-born stage and film actor who won the Tony Award for Polonius and formed one of theatre's most legendary partnerships with Jessica Tandy.

Biographical Record

Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. was an acclaimed Canadian-American character actor. Studying at McGill University (where he boxed as an Olympic contender) and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Cronyn made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and earned an Oscar nomination for The Seventh Cross (1944).

Cronyn won the 1964 Tony Award for playing Polonius opposite Richard Burton's Hamlet. Together with his wife of over fifty years, actress Jessica Tandy, Cronyn formed Broadway's most celebrated acting couple, starring in The Gin Game, Foxfire, and films like Cocoon. He received the Kennedy Center Honors and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Fairfield Memorial Park
Fairfield, United States
GPS: 41.1400, -73.2600
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