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Known for:	Cocoon, *batteries not included, Cleopatra
Birth name:	Hume Blake Cronyn
Birthday:	18 July 1911, London, Ontario, Canada
Height:	5' 6" (1.68 m)

Member of the Kappa Alpha Society at the University of McGill, class of 1932. Won a Tony Award in 1964 for his performance as Polonius in the Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", which was recorded live on stage in a process known as Electronovision, and shown in movie theaters the same year (Hamlet). His father Hume Blake Cronyn has an observatory dedicated to him in the University of Western Ontario. The refractor telescope was the largest ever built in the western hemisphere at the time. Although not widely known, he had a glass eye, having lost the real one to cancer. Attended Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario Became a US citizen late in life. Appeared as Sosigenes in Cleopatra, One film critic's witty appraisal of this mammoth, megastar, megabuck, four-hour production was, "I never miss a Hume Cronyn movie." At time of death had eight grandchildren and five great-granchildren. Son: Christopher Cronyn, daughters: Tandy Cronyn and Susan Tettmer. Stepchildren: Jonathan Grant and Kate Glennon. Starred (with wife Jessica Tandy) as Ben Marriott on NBC Radio's "The Marriage" (1953-1954). Won two Tony Awards: in 1964, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for playing Polonius in Shakespeare/s "Hamlet," and, in 1994, a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achuievement that was shared with his wife, Jessica Tandy. And he was nominated six other times: as Best Actor (Dramatic), in 1961 for: Big Fish, Little Fish" and in 1967 for Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance;" as Best Actor (Play), in 1978 for "The Gin Game" and in 1986 for "The Petition;" as Producer (Dramatic), in 1965 as co-producer of Best Play nominee "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground;" and as co-producer in 1978 of Best Play nominee "The Gin Game." He and his wife, Jessica Tandy, were both honored with the American National Medal of the Arts in 1990 from the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

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