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Cary Grant
Actor
Died November 29, 1986 (82 years)
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-born American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing.
Grant was born in Horfield, Bristol. He became attracted to theater at a young age and began performing with a troupe known as "The Penders" at age six. At the age of 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of the US. After a series of successful performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.
Grant initially appeared in crime films or dramas such as Blonde Venus (1932) with Marlene Dietrich and She Done Him Wrong (1933) with Mae West, but later gained renown for his performances in romantic and screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne, Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday (1940) and The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn and James Stewart, often with some of the biggest female stars of the day. These films are frequently cited among the greatest comedy films of all time.[2] Other well-known films in which he starred in this period were the adventure Gunga Din (1939) and the dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). He also began to move into dramas such as Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Penny Serenade (1941) and Clifford Odets' None but the Lonely Heart (1944); he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the latter two.
During the 1940s and 1950s, Grant developed a close working relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, who cast the popular actor in several of his critically acclaimed films, including Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), and North by Northwest (1959). The suspense-dramas Suspicion and Notorious both involved Grant showing a darker, more ambiguous nature in his characters. Toward the end of his film career, Grant was praised by critics as a romantic leading man, and he received five nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, including Indiscreet (1958) with Ingrid Bergman, That Touch of Mink (1962) with Doris Day, and Charade (1963) with Audrey Hepburn. He is remembered by critics for his unusually broad appeal as a handsome, suave actor who did not take himself too seriously, able to play with his own dignity in comedies without sacrificing it entirely.
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Filmography
| 2011 | These Amazing Shadows · as Devlin |
| 2008 | Warner at War · as actor |
| 2002 | Nearest to Heaven · as Nickie Ferrante |
| 2002 | Edith Head: The Paramount Years · as actor |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream · as Unknown |
| 1994 | Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics · as Walter Burns |
| 1994 | Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her · as actor |
| 1990 | |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as John Robie (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1982 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid · as (in "Suspicion") (archive footage) |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II · as (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brother Can You Spare a Dime · as (archive footage) |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! · as (archive footage) |
| 1966 | Walk Don't Run · as Sir William Rutland |
| 1965 | The Love Goddesses · as (archive footage) |
| 1964 | Father Goose · as Walter Christopher Eckland |
| 1963 | |
| 1962 | That Touch of Mink · as Philip Shayne |
| 1960 | The Grass Is Greener · as Victor Rhyall |
| 1959 | North by Northwest · as Roger O. Thornhill |
| 1959 | Operation Petticoat · as Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman |
| 1958 | Houseboat · as Tom Winters |
| 1958 | Indiscreet · as Philip Adams |
| 1957 | An Affair to Remember · as Nickie Ferrante |
| 1957 | The Pride and the Passion · as Anthony |
| 1955 | To Catch a Thief · as John Robie |
| 1953 | Dream Wife · as Clemson Reade |
| 1952 | Room for One More · as George "Poppy" Rose |
| 1952 | Monkey Business · as Barnaby Fulton |
| 1951 | People Will Talk · as Dr. Noah Praetorius |
| 1950 | Crisis · as Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson |
| 1949 | I Was a Male War Bride · as Capt. Henri Rochard |
| 1948 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House · as Jim Blandings |
| 1948 | Every Girl Should Be Married · as Dr. Madison W. Brown |
| 1947 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer · as Richard Nugent |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife · as Dudley |
| 1946 | Notorious · as T.R. Devlin |
| 1946 | Without Reservations · as Cary Grant (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Night and Day · as Cole Porter |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace · as Mortimer Brewster |
| 1944 | None But the Lonely Heart · as Ernie Mott |
| 1944 | Once Upon a Time · as Jerry Flynn |
| 1944 | Some of the Best · as C. K. Dexter Haven |
| 1943 | Destination Tokyo · as Captain Cassidy |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky · as Joe Adams |
| 1942 | Once Upon a Honeymoon · as Patrick O'Toole |
| 1942 | The Talk of the Town · as Leopold Dilg - Joseph |
| 1941 | Suspicion · as John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth |
| 1941 | Penny Serenade · as Roger Adams |
| 1940 | The Philadelphia Story · as C.K. Dexter Haven |
| 1940 | His Girl Friday · as Walter Burns |
| 1940 | My Favorite Wife · as Nick Arden |
| 1940 | The Howards of Virginia · as Matt Howard |
| 1939 | Gunga Din · as Archibald Cutter |
| 1939 | In Name Only · as Alec Walker |
| 1939 | Only Angels Have Wings · as Geoff Carter |
| 1938 | Bringing Up Baby · as David Huxley |
| 1938 | Holiday · as Johnny Case |
| 1937 | Topper · as George Kerby |
| 1937 | The Toast of New York · as Nick Boyd |
| 1937 | When You're in Love · as Jimmy Hudson |
| 1937 | The Awful Truth · as Jerry Warriner |
| 1936 | The Amazing Adventure · as Ernest Bliss |
| 1936 | Wedding Present · as Charlie Mason |
| 1935 | Sylvia Scarlett · as Jimmy Monkley |
| 1934 | Born to Be Bad · as Malcolm Trevor |
| 1933 | I'm No Angel · as Jack Clayton |
| 1933 | She Done Him Wrong · as Captain Cummings |
| 1933 | Alice in Wonderland · as Mock Turtle |
| 1932 | Blonde Venus · as Nick Townsend |