Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was a British 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 acted in at least 76 films between 1932 and 1966. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second-greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart).
Grant first began acting in Broadway plays in the 1920s, going by his birth name Archie Leach. He made his film debut with a minor role in This Is the Night (1932). Beginning in the 1930s, Grant appeared in over 20 radio programs, usually Lux Radio Theatre.
In 1940, Grant appeared opposite Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday. Grant was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor in Penny Serenade (1941) and None but the Lonely Heart (1944). He portrayed composer and songwriter Cole Porter in Night and Day (1946). In 1955, he acted alongside Grace Kelly in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed To Catch a Thief. He appeared in Houseboat (1958) with Sophia Loren. That year he also appeared in Indiscreet with Ingrid Bergman, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 1959, Grant starred alongside Eva Marie Saint in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed North by Northwest. His next role was alongside Doris Day in That Touch of Mink (1962). His performance opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963) garnered him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Grant's final film was Walk, Don't Run (1966), retiring to raise his newborn daughter. He died twenty years later in 1986.
The many directors with whom Grant worked throughout his film career include Frank Capra, George Cukor, Stanley Donen, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Delbert Mann, Ralph Nelson, Clifford Odets, Leo McCarey, Sidney Sheldon, George Stevens and Norman Taurog.
Actors with whom Grant worked include Edward Arnold, Richard Arlen, Lew Ayres, Ralph Bellamy, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jose Ferrer, Melvyn Douglas, John Garfield, Chester Morris, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Laughton, Martin Landau, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Fredric March, Raymond Massey, Robert Mitchum, David Niven, Jack Oakie, Victor McLaglen, Walter Pidgeon, Irving Pichel, Claude Rains, Gilbert Roland, Charles Ruggles, Randolph Scott, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Monty Woolley, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Henry Travers.
Actresses with whom Grant worked include Jean Adair, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, Constance Bennett, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Caron, Doris Day, Betsy Drake, Irene Dunne, Samantha Eggar, Sophia Loren, Frances Farmer, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlowe, Josephine Hull, Deborah Kerr, Grace Kelly, Carol Lombard, Priscilla Lane, Elissa Landi, Helen Mack, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Suzy Parker, Rosalind Russell, Eva Marie Saint, Martha Scott, Ann Sheridan, Sylvia Sidney, Alexis Smith, Ginger Rogers, Martha Scott and Loretta Young.
Grant starred in ten films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Notorious (1946), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1932 | This Is the Night | Stephen Mathewson | Film debut | [1] |
Devil and the Deep | Lieutenant Jaeckel | [2] | ||
Sinners in the Sun | Ridgeway | [3] | ||
Merrily We Go to Hell | Charlie Baxter | UK title: Merrily We Go to _____ | [4] [5] | |
Singapore Sue | First Sailor (uncredited) | Short film | ||
Blonde Venus | Nick Townsend | |||
Hot Saturday | Romer Sheffield | |||
Madame Butterfly | Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton | |||
1933 | She Done Him Wrong | Capt. Cummings | ||
The Woman Accused | Jeffrey Baxter | |||
The Eagle and the Hawk | Henry Crocker | |||
Gambling Ship | Ace Corbin | |||
I'm No Angel | Jack Clayton | |||
Alice in Wonderland | The Mock Turtle | |||
1934 | Thirty-Day Princess | Porter Madison III | ||
Born to Be Bad | Malcolm Trevor | |||
Kiss and Make-Up | Dr. Maurice Lamar | |||
Ladies Should Listen | Julian De Lussac | |||
1935 | Enter Madame | Gerald Fitzgerald | ||
Wings in the Dark | Ken Gordon | |||
The Last Outpost | Michael Andrews | |||
Sylvia Scarlett | Jimmy Monkley | |||
1936 | Big Brown Eyes | Det. Sgt. Danny Barr | ||
Suzy | Andre Charville | [6] | ||
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss | Ernest Bliss | Alternative titles: Romance and Riches The Amazing Adventure |
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Wedding Present | Charlie Mason | |||
1937 | When You're in Love | Jimmy Hudson | UK title: For You Alone | |
Topper | George Kerby | |||
The Toast of New York | Nicholas "Nick" Boyd | |||
The Awful Truth | Jerry Warriner | |||
1938 | Bringing Up Baby | Dr. David Huxley | [7] | |
Holiday | John "Johnny" Case | |||
1939 | Gunga Din | Sgt. Archibald Cutter | [8] | |
Only Angels Have Wings | Geoff Carter | |||
In Name Only | Alec Walker | |||
1940 | His Girl Friday | Walter Burns | [9] | |
My Favorite Wife | Nick | |||
The Howards of Virginia | Matt Howard | UK title: The Tree of Liberty | ||
The Philadelphia Story | C. K. Dexter Haven | |||
1941 | Penny Serenade | Roger Adams | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor | [10] |
Suspicion | Johnnie | |||
1942 | The Talk of the Town | Leopold Dilg a.k.a. Joseph | ||
Once Upon a Honeymoon | Patrick "Pat" O'Toole | |||
1943 | Mr. Lucky | Joe Adams/Joe Bascopolous | [11] | |
Destination Tokyo | Capt. Cassidy | |||
1944 | Once Upon a Time | Jerry Flynn | ||
Arsenic and Old Lace | Mortimer Brewster | [12] | ||
None but the Lonely Heart | Ernie Mott | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor | [13] | |
1946 | Night and Day | Cole Porter | [14] | |
Notorious | T.R. Devlin | [15] | ||
1947 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Dick Nugent | UK title: Bachelor Knight | [16] |
The Bishop's Wife | Dudley | [17] | ||
1948 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Jim Blandings | [18] | |
Every Girl Should Be Married | Dr. Madison W. Brown | [19] | ||
1949 | I Was a Male War Bride | Capt. Henri Rochard | UK title: You Can't Sleep Here | [20] |
1950 | Crisis | Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson | [21] | |
1951 | People Will Talk | Dr. Noah Praetorius | [22] | |
1952 | Room for One More | George "Poppy" Rose | [23] | |
Monkey Business | Dr. Barnaby Fulton | [24] | ||
1953 | Dream Wife | Clemson Reade | [25] | |
1955 | To Catch a Thief | John Robie | [26] | |
1957 | An Affair to Remember | Nickie Ferrante | [27] | |
The Pride and the Passion | Anthony | [28] | ||
Kiss Them for Me | Cmdr. Andy Crewson | [29] | ||
1958 | Indiscreet | Philip Adams | [30] | |
Houseboat | Tom Winters | [31] | ||
1959 | North by Northwest | Roger Thornhill | [32] | |
Operation Petticoat | Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman | [33] | ||
1960 | The Grass Is Greener | Victor Rhyall, Earl | [34] | |
1962 | That Touch of Mink | Philip Shayne | [35] | |
1963 | Charade | Peter Joshua / Alexander Dyle / Adam Canfield / Brian Cruikshank | [36] | |
1964 | Father Goose | Walter Christopher Eckland | [37] | |
1966 | Walk, Don't Run | Sir William Rutland | Final film role | [38] |
Year | Title | Role | Location | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1922–1923 | Better Times | – | Hippodrome Theatre | Performer | [39] |
1927–1928 | Golden Dawn | Anzac | Hammerstein's Theatre | [39] | |
1929 | Boom Boom | Reggie Phipps | Casino Theatre | [39] | |
1929–1930 | A Wonderful Night | Max Grunewald | Majestic Theatre | [39] | |
1930 | The Street Singer | [40] | |||
1931 | Nikki | Cary Lockwood | Longacre Theatre & George M. Cohan's Theatre | [39] |
Year | Program | Episode | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1935 | Lux Radio Theatre | Adam and Eva | |
1937 | Madame Butterfly | ||
1938 | Theodora Goes Wild | ||
1939 | Only Angels Have Wings | ||
The Awful Truth | [41] | ||
In Name Only | |||
1941 | I Love You Again | ||
1942 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | ||
1943 | The Talk of the Town | ||
Suspense | The Black Curtain | ||
Lux Radio Theatre | Mr. Lucky | [42] | |
1944 | Suspense | The Black Curtain | |
1945 | Lux Radio Theatre | Bedtime Story | |
1946 | Suspense | The Black Path of Fear | |
1948 | The Last Chance | ||
1949 | Lux Radio Theatre | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | |
Every Girl Should Be Married | |||
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | |||
1950 | Every Girl Should Be Married | ||
A Woman of Distinction | |||
Suspense | On a Country Road | [43] | |
1952 | Lux Radio Theatre | Room for One More | |
1953 | The Bishop's Wife | [44] | |
GE Playhouse | The Bachelor | [45] | |
Lux Radio Theatre | I Confess | ||
1954 | People Will Talk | ||
Welcome Stranger | |||
1955 | The Awful Truth | ||
The Bishop's Wife | [46] |
Arzner demonstrated her remarkable intuition for talent by casting the then-unknown Cary Grant as Joan's most impressive conquest.
Cary Grant... Charlie Baxter
Cast: Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine.
Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden portray three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco.
This film stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard.
Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces about his time as the first commander of the boat, in 1941.
One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet.
Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was a British 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 acted in at least 76 films between 1932 and 1966. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second-greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart).
Grant first began acting in Broadway plays in the 1920s, going by his birth name Archie Leach. He made his film debut with a minor role in This Is the Night (1932). Beginning in the 1930s, Grant appeared in over 20 radio programs, usually Lux Radio Theatre.
In 1940, Grant appeared opposite Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday. Grant was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor in Penny Serenade (1941) and None but the Lonely Heart (1944). He portrayed composer and songwriter Cole Porter in Night and Day (1946). In 1955, he acted alongside Grace Kelly in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed To Catch a Thief. He appeared in Houseboat (1958) with Sophia Loren. That year he also appeared in Indiscreet with Ingrid Bergman, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 1959, Grant starred alongside Eva Marie Saint in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed North by Northwest. His next role was alongside Doris Day in That Touch of Mink (1962). His performance opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963) garnered him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Grant's final film was Walk, Don't Run (1966), retiring to raise his newborn daughter. He died twenty years later in 1986.
The many directors with whom Grant worked throughout his film career include Frank Capra, George Cukor, Stanley Donen, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Delbert Mann, Ralph Nelson, Clifford Odets, Leo McCarey, Sidney Sheldon, George Stevens and Norman Taurog.
Actors with whom Grant worked include Edward Arnold, Richard Arlen, Lew Ayres, Ralph Bellamy, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jose Ferrer, Melvyn Douglas, John Garfield, Chester Morris, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Laughton, Martin Landau, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Fredric March, Raymond Massey, Robert Mitchum, David Niven, Jack Oakie, Victor McLaglen, Walter Pidgeon, Irving Pichel, Claude Rains, Gilbert Roland, Charles Ruggles, Randolph Scott, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Monty Woolley, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Henry Travers.
Actresses with whom Grant worked include Jean Adair, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, Constance Bennett, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Caron, Doris Day, Betsy Drake, Irene Dunne, Samantha Eggar, Sophia Loren, Frances Farmer, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlowe, Josephine Hull, Deborah Kerr, Grace Kelly, Carol Lombard, Priscilla Lane, Elissa Landi, Helen Mack, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Suzy Parker, Rosalind Russell, Eva Marie Saint, Martha Scott, Ann Sheridan, Sylvia Sidney, Alexis Smith, Ginger Rogers, Martha Scott and Loretta Young.
Grant starred in ten films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Notorious (1946), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1932 | This Is the Night | Stephen Mathewson | Film debut | [1] |
Devil and the Deep | Lieutenant Jaeckel | [2] | ||
Sinners in the Sun | Ridgeway | [3] | ||
Merrily We Go to Hell | Charlie Baxter | UK title: Merrily We Go to _____ | [4] [5] | |
Singapore Sue | First Sailor (uncredited) | Short film | ||
Blonde Venus | Nick Townsend | |||
Hot Saturday | Romer Sheffield | |||
Madame Butterfly | Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton | |||
1933 | She Done Him Wrong | Capt. Cummings | ||
The Woman Accused | Jeffrey Baxter | |||
The Eagle and the Hawk | Henry Crocker | |||
Gambling Ship | Ace Corbin | |||
I'm No Angel | Jack Clayton | |||
Alice in Wonderland | The Mock Turtle | |||
1934 | Thirty-Day Princess | Porter Madison III | ||
Born to Be Bad | Malcolm Trevor | |||
Kiss and Make-Up | Dr. Maurice Lamar | |||
Ladies Should Listen | Julian De Lussac | |||
1935 | Enter Madame | Gerald Fitzgerald | ||
Wings in the Dark | Ken Gordon | |||
The Last Outpost | Michael Andrews | |||
Sylvia Scarlett | Jimmy Monkley | |||
1936 | Big Brown Eyes | Det. Sgt. Danny Barr | ||
Suzy | Andre Charville | [6] | ||
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss | Ernest Bliss | Alternative titles: Romance and Riches The Amazing Adventure |
||
Wedding Present | Charlie Mason | |||
1937 | When You're in Love | Jimmy Hudson | UK title: For You Alone | |
Topper | George Kerby | |||
The Toast of New York | Nicholas "Nick" Boyd | |||
The Awful Truth | Jerry Warriner | |||
1938 | Bringing Up Baby | Dr. David Huxley | [7] | |
Holiday | John "Johnny" Case | |||
1939 | Gunga Din | Sgt. Archibald Cutter | [8] | |
Only Angels Have Wings | Geoff Carter | |||
In Name Only | Alec Walker | |||
1940 | His Girl Friday | Walter Burns | [9] | |
My Favorite Wife | Nick | |||
The Howards of Virginia | Matt Howard | UK title: The Tree of Liberty | ||
The Philadelphia Story | C. K. Dexter Haven | |||
1941 | Penny Serenade | Roger Adams | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor | [10] |
Suspicion | Johnnie | |||
1942 | The Talk of the Town | Leopold Dilg a.k.a. Joseph | ||
Once Upon a Honeymoon | Patrick "Pat" O'Toole | |||
1943 | Mr. Lucky | Joe Adams/Joe Bascopolous | [11] | |
Destination Tokyo | Capt. Cassidy | |||
1944 | Once Upon a Time | Jerry Flynn | ||
Arsenic and Old Lace | Mortimer Brewster | [12] | ||
None but the Lonely Heart | Ernie Mott | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor | [13] | |
1946 | Night and Day | Cole Porter | [14] | |
Notorious | T.R. Devlin | [15] | ||
1947 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Dick Nugent | UK title: Bachelor Knight | [16] |
The Bishop's Wife | Dudley | [17] | ||
1948 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Jim Blandings | [18] | |
Every Girl Should Be Married | Dr. Madison W. Brown | [19] | ||
1949 | I Was a Male War Bride | Capt. Henri Rochard | UK title: You Can't Sleep Here | [20] |
1950 | Crisis | Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson | [21] | |
1951 | People Will Talk | Dr. Noah Praetorius | [22] | |
1952 | Room for One More | George "Poppy" Rose | [23] | |
Monkey Business | Dr. Barnaby Fulton | [24] | ||
1953 | Dream Wife | Clemson Reade | [25] | |
1955 | To Catch a Thief | John Robie | [26] | |
1957 | An Affair to Remember | Nickie Ferrante | [27] | |
The Pride and the Passion | Anthony | [28] | ||
Kiss Them for Me | Cmdr. Andy Crewson | [29] | ||
1958 | Indiscreet | Philip Adams | [30] | |
Houseboat | Tom Winters | [31] | ||
1959 | North by Northwest | Roger Thornhill | [32] | |
Operation Petticoat | Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman | [33] | ||
1960 | The Grass Is Greener | Victor Rhyall, Earl | [34] | |
1962 | That Touch of Mink | Philip Shayne | [35] | |
1963 | Charade | Peter Joshua / Alexander Dyle / Adam Canfield / Brian Cruikshank | [36] | |
1964 | Father Goose | Walter Christopher Eckland | [37] | |
1966 | Walk, Don't Run | Sir William Rutland | Final film role | [38] |
Year | Title | Role | Location | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1922–1923 | Better Times | – | Hippodrome Theatre | Performer | [39] |
1927–1928 | Golden Dawn | Anzac | Hammerstein's Theatre | [39] | |
1929 | Boom Boom | Reggie Phipps | Casino Theatre | [39] | |
1929–1930 | A Wonderful Night | Max Grunewald | Majestic Theatre | [39] | |
1930 | The Street Singer | [40] | |||
1931 | Nikki | Cary Lockwood | Longacre Theatre & George M. Cohan's Theatre | [39] |
Year | Program | Episode | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1935 | Lux Radio Theatre | Adam and Eva | |
1937 | Madame Butterfly | ||
1938 | Theodora Goes Wild | ||
1939 | Only Angels Have Wings | ||
The Awful Truth | [41] | ||
In Name Only | |||
1941 | I Love You Again | ||
1942 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | ||
1943 | The Talk of the Town | ||
Suspense | The Black Curtain | ||
Lux Radio Theatre | Mr. Lucky | [42] | |
1944 | Suspense | The Black Curtain | |
1945 | Lux Radio Theatre | Bedtime Story | |
1946 | Suspense | The Black Path of Fear | |
1948 | The Last Chance | ||
1949 | Lux Radio Theatre | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | |
Every Girl Should Be Married | |||
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | |||
1950 | Every Girl Should Be Married | ||
A Woman of Distinction | |||
Suspense | On a Country Road | [43] | |
1952 | Lux Radio Theatre | Room for One More | |
1953 | The Bishop's Wife | [44] | |
GE Playhouse | The Bachelor | [45] | |
Lux Radio Theatre | I Confess | ||
1954 | People Will Talk | ||
Welcome Stranger | |||
1955 | The Awful Truth | ||
The Bishop's Wife | [46] |
Arzner demonstrated her remarkable intuition for talent by casting the then-unknown Cary Grant as Joan's most impressive conquest.
Cary Grant... Charlie Baxter
Cast: Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine.
Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden portray three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco.
This film stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard.
Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces about his time as the first commander of the boat, in 1941.
One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet.