Cary Grant

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1904-01-18

Deathday 1986-11-29 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Horfield, Bristol, England, UK

Also Known As Archibald Alec Leach, Archibald Leach, Archibald Alexander Leach, 卡莱葛伦, Кері Грант

Cary Grant

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
True Blue

as (Archive Footage)

2024
The Trouble With Forgetting

as (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
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
2007
Hippies

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)

1999
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
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

as Self (archive footage)

1990
1990
Star Life

as Self (archive footage)

1988
1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess

as Self (archive footage)

1985
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)

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
That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage)

1974
Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

1973
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1971
1970
The Killer of Fossil Gulch

as The Victim / The Head Juror (uncredited)

1966
Walk Don't Run

as Sir William Rutland

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

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1955
To Catch a Thief

as John Robie

1954
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

1947
1947
1947
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
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
1943
Destination Tokyo

as Captain Cassidy

1943
Mr. Lucky

as Joe Adams

1942
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
1940
My Favorite Wife

as Nick Arden

1940
His Girl Friday

as Walter Burns

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
1937
Topper

as George Kerby

1937
When You're in Love

as Jimmy Hudson

1936
Wedding Present

as Charlie Mason

1936
Suzy

as Andre

1936
Big Brown Eyes

as Detective Sergeant Danny Barr

1935
Sylvia Scarlett

as Jimmy Monkley

1935
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

Crew

1938

Producer

1960
The Grass Is Greener

as Executive Producer