Cary Grant
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cary Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2024 · True Blue as (Archive Footage)
- 2024 · The Trouble With Forgetting as (archive footage)
- 2022 · Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Hitchcock Confidential as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Becoming Cary Grant as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Smash His Camera as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Metropolis Refound as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · North by Northwest: One for the Ages as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Behind The Gates: Cary Grant And Grace Kelly as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Hippies as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday' as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · On Location with Gunga Din as Archibald Cutter (archive footage)
- 2004 · Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love as Self (Archive Footage)
- 2003 · Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)
- 2002 · Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 · Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 · Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 · Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · Arizona Dream as Roger Thornhill (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1990 · Marilyn: Something's Got to Give as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 · Star Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 · You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 · Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
- 1990 · Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
- 1988 · Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 · Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 · Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special as Self
- 1985 · George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self (archive sound)
- 1984 · All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self
- 1983 · All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra as Self
- 1983 · Notre Dame de la Croisette as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1982 · Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- 1982 · Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
- 1982 · Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- 1979 · Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years as Self
- 1978 · The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- 1976 · That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- 1976 · It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 · That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
- 1973 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- 1973 · The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks as Self (archive footage)
- 1972 · Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- 1971 · V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- 1970 · The Killer of Fossil Gulch as The Victim / The Head Juror (uncredited)
- 1970 · Elvis: That's the Way It Is as Self
- 1966 · Walk Don't Run as Sir William Rutland
- 1965 · The Love Goddesses as (archive footage)
- 1964 · Father Goose as Walter Christopher Eckland
- 1964 · The Big Parade of Comedy as Andre Charville (archive footage)
- 1963 · Charade as Peter Joshua
- 1962 · That Touch of Mink as Philip Shayne
- 1960 · The Grass Is Greener as Victor Rhyall
- 1959 · Operation Petticoat as Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman
- 1959 · North by Northwest as Roger Thornhill
- 1958 · Houseboat as Tom Winters
- 1958 · Indiscreet as Philip Adams
- 1957 · Kiss Them for Me as Cmdr. Andrew " Andy" Crewson
- 1957 · An Affair to Remember as Nickie Ferrante
- 1957 · The Pride and the Passion as Anthony
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1955 · To Catch a Thief as John Robie
- 1954 · Reflets de Cannes as Self
- 1953 · Dream Wife as Clemson Reade
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Monkey Business as Barnaby Fulton
- 1952 · Room for One More as George "Poppy" Rose
- 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 · Every Girl Should Be Married as Dr. Madison W. Brown
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (archive footage)
- 1948 · Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Jim Blandings
- 1947 · Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
- 1947 · The Bishop's Wife as Dudley
- 1947 · The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Richard Nugent
- 1946 · Notorious as T.R. Devlin
- 1946 · Night and Day as Cole Porter
- 1946 · Without Reservations as Cary Grant (uncredited)
- 1945 · George White's Scandals as Cary Grant (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1944 · None But the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
- 1944 · Arsenic and Old Lace as Mortimer Brewster
- 1944 · Once Upon a Time as Jerry Flynn
- 1944 · The Road to Victory as Cary Grant (uncredited)
- 1944 · The Shining Future as Self
- 1943 · Destination Tokyo as Captain Cassidy
- 1943 · Mr. Lucky as Joe Adams
- 1942 · Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- 1942 · Once Upon a Honeymoon as Patrick O'Toole
- 1942 · The Talk of the Town as Leopold Dilg
- 1941 · Suspicion as John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
- 1941 · Penny Serenade as Roger Adams
- 1940 · The Philadelphia Story as C.K. Dexter Haven
- 1940 · A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- 1940 · A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital as Self
- 1940 · The Howards of Virginia as Matt Howard
- 1940 · My Favorite Wife as Nick Arden
- 1940 · His Girl Friday as Walter Burns
- 1939 · Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 as Self
- 1939 · In Name Only as Alec Walker
- 1939 · Only Angels Have Wings as Geoff Carter
- 1939 · Gunga Din as Archibald Cutter
- 1938 · Topper Takes a Trip as George Kerby (archive footage)
- 1938 · Holiday as Johnny Case
- 1938 · Bringing Up Baby as David Huxley
- 1937 · The Awful Truth as Jerry Warriner
- 1937 · The Toast of New York as Nick Boyd
- 1937 · Topper as George Kerby
- 1937 · When You're in Love as Jimmy Hudson
- 1936 · Wedding Present as Charlie Mason
- 1936 · Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- 1936 · The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss as Ernest Bliss
- 1936 · Suzy as Andre
- 1936 · Big Brown Eyes as Detective Sergeant Danny Barr
- 1935 · Sylvia Scarlett as Jimmy Monkley
- 1935 · Pirate Party on Catalina Isle as Guest on Isle
- 1935 · The Last Outpost as Michael Andrews
- 1935 · Wings in the Dark as Ken Gordon
- 1935 · Enter Madame as Gerald Fitzgerald
- 1934 · Ladies Should Listen as Julian De Lussac
- 1934 · Kiss and Make-Up as Dr. Maurice Lamar
- 1934 · Born to Be Bad as Malcolm Trevor
- 1934 · Thirty Day Princess as Porter Madison III
- 1933 · Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
- 1933 · Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1933 · I'm No Angel as Jack Clayton
- 1933 · Gambling Ship as Ace Corbin
- 1933 · The Eagle and the Hawk as Henry Crocker
- 1933 · The Woman Accused as Jeffrey Baxter
- 1933 · She Done Him Wrong as Captain Cummings
- 1932 · Madame Butterfly as Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
- 1932 · Hot Saturday as Romer Sheffield
- 1932 · Blonde Venus as Nick Townsend
- 1932 · Devil and the Deep as Lt. Jaeckel
- 1932 · Merrily We Go to Hell as Charlie Baxter
- 1932 · Singapore Sue as First Sailor
- 1932 · Sinners in the Sun as Ridgeway
- 1932 · This Is the Night as Stephen Mathewson