List of Cary Grant performances

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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 naturally acquired transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted persona, 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 in the 1940s

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.

Filmography

Grant and Katharine Hepburn on a poster for Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Trailer shot from The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Grant and Ingrid Bergman on a poster for Notorious (1946)
Grant and Grace Kelly on a poster for To Catch a Thief (1955)
Grant on a poster for North by Northwest (1959)
Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)
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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]
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Theatre

Cary Grant & Queenie Smith in the Shubert Organization's musical comedy play The Street Singer
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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]
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Radio

Collaborations

Directors

He was a frequent collaborator with notable directors, such as Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, I Was a Male War Bride, Monkey Business), Alfred Hitchcock (Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest), Stanley Donen (Kiss Them for Me, Indiscreet, Charade, The Grass Is Greener), George Cukor (Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story), Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth, Once Upon a Honeymoon, An Affair to Remember), and George Stevens (Gunga Din, Penny Serenade, The Talk of the Town). He also worked with Frank Capra, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Delbert Mann, Ralph Nelson, Clifford Odets, Sidney Sheldon, and Norman Taurog.

Actors

Actors with whom Grant worked include Edward Arnold, Richard Arlen, Lew Ayres, Noah Beery Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Jack Carson, James Coburn, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Tony Curtis, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jose Ferrer, Barry Fitzgerald, John Garfield, James Gleason, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Everett Horton, Trevor Howard, Jim Hutton, George Kennedy, Martin Landau, Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Victor McLaglen, Fredric March, Herbert Marshall, James Mason, Raymond Massey, Walter Matthau, Robert Mitchum, Chester Morris, David Niven, Jack Oakie, Irving Pichel, Walter Pidgeon, Claude Rains, Gilbert Roland, Charles Ruggles, Randolph Scott, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Henry Travers, Monty Woolley, and Roland Young.

Actresses

Actresses with whom Grant worked include Jean Adair, Jean Arthur, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Caron, Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich, Betsy Drake, Irene Dunne, Samantha Eggar, Frances Farmer, Joan Fontaine, Kay Francis, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Hull, Grace Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Priscilla Lane, Elissa Landi, Carole Lombard, Sophia Loren, Myrna Loy, Helen Mack, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Suzy Parker, Gail Patrick, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, Eva Marie Saint, Martha Scott, Ann Sheridan, Sylvia Sidney, Jean Simmons, Alexis Smith, Shirley Temple, Thelma Todd, Mae West, and Loretta Young.

Accolades

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).

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