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Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Birthday: 1904-01-18 | Place of Birth: Horfield, Bristol, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cary Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2017
Becoming Cary Grant

as    Self (archive footage)

2014
Elvis: That's the Way It Is

as    Himself

2010
Metropolis Refound

as    Himself (archive footage)

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as    (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

1966
Walk Don't Run

as    Sir William Rutland

1964
The Big Parade of Comedy

as    Cary Grant

1964
Father Goose

as    Walter Christopher Eckland

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
Indiscreet

as    Philip Adams

1958
Houseboat

as    Tom Winters

1957
The Pride and the Passion

as    Anthony

1957
Kiss Them for Me

as    Cmdr. Andrew " Andy" Crewson

1957
An Affair to Remember

as    Nickie Ferrante

1955
To Catch a Thief

as    John Robie

1953
Dream Wife

as    Clemson Reade

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

1947
The Bishop's Wife

as    Dudley

1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

as    Richard Nugent

1946
Night and Day

as    Cole Porter

1946
Notorious

as    T.R. Devlin

1944
Arsenic and Old Lace

as    Mortimer Brewster