
Biography
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. He was known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. He was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men from the 1930s until the mid-1960s. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and in 1970 he was presented an Academy Honorary Award by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards. He was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors in 1981. In 1999, the American Film Institute named him the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema, trailing only Humphrey Bogart.
Grant was born and brought up in Bristol, England. He became attracted to theater at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome. At 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 and 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 screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne, Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell, and The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn and James Stewart. These pictures 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) with Jean Arthur, Penny Serenade (1941) again with Dunne, and None but the Lonely Heart (1944) with Ethel Barrymore; he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the latter two.
During the 1940s and 50s, Grant had a close working relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, who cast him in four films: Suspicion (1941) opposite Joan Fontaine, Notorious (1946) opposite Ingrid Bergman, To Catch a Thief (1955) with Grace Kelly, and North by Northwest (1959) with James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, with Notorious and North by Northwest becoming particularly critically acclaimed. The suspense-dramas Suspicion and Notorious both involved Grant playing darker, morally ambiguous characters. Toward the end of his 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 for Indiscreet (1958) with 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, and able to play with his own dignity in comedies without sacrificing it entirely.
Grant was married five times, three of them elopements with actresses Virginia Cherrill (1934–1935), Betsy Drake (1949–1962), and Dyan Cannon (1965–1968). He had daughter Jennifer Grant with Cannon. He retired from film acting in 1966 and pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé and sitting on the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He died of a stroke on November 29, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa, aged 82.
Filmography
All 151
Movies 145
Self 65
TV Shows 6

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (2022)

Sophia Loren, une destinée particulière (2019)

Hitchcock Confidential (2019)

Becoming Cary Grant (2017)

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2015)

I Love Hitchcock (2014)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense (2013)

Smash His Camera (2010)

Metropolis Refound (2010)

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' (2009)

Behind The Gates: Cary Grant And Grace Kelly (2009)

Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (2009)

Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi' (2008)

Hippies (2007)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday' (2006)

Auf den Spuren Winnetous (2004)

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock (2004)

Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)

Complicated Women (2003)

Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)

The Making of 'To Catch a Thief' (2002)

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief (2002)

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' (2000)

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood (1999)

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)

Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)

Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990)

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story (1990)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)

Le cinéma dans les yeux (1987)

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)

All Star Party for Lucille Ball (1984)

Terror in the Aisles (1984)

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra (1983)

Notre Dame de la Croisette (1983)

Showbiz Goes to War (1982)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years (1979)

The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

It's Showtime (1976)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

That's Entertainment! (1974)

The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973)

V.I.P. Schaukel (1971)

The Killer of Fossil Gulch (1970)

Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)

Walk Don't Run (1966)

Hollywood My Home Town (1965)

The Love Goddesses (1965)

Father Goose (1964)

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Charade (1963)

Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)

That Touch of Mink (1962)

The Grass Is Greener (1960)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

Houseboat (1958)

Indiscreet (1958)

Kiss Them for Me (1957)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

The Pride and the Passion (1957)

Tony Awards (1956)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Dream Wife (1953)

The Oscars (1953)

Monkey Business (1952)

Room for One More (1952)

People Will Talk (1951)

Crisis (1950)

I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

Let's Go to the Movies (1949)

Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Blow-Ups of 1947 (1947)

Notorious (1946)

Night and Day (1946)

Without Reservations (1946)

George White's Scandals (1945)

None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Once Upon a Time (1944)

The Road to Victory (1944)

The Shining Future (1944)

Destination Tokyo (1943)

Mr. Lucky (1943)

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

The Talk of the Town (1942)

Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)

Suspicion (1941)

Penny Serenade (1941)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)

A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1940)

The Howards of Virginia (1940)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)

In Name Only (1939)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

Holiday (1938)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

The Awful Truth (1937)

The Toast of New York (1937)

Topper (1937)

When You're in Love (1937)

Wedding Present (1936)

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)

Suzy (1936)

Big Brown Eyes (1936)

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)

The Last Outpost (1935)

Wings in the Dark (1935)

Enter Madame (1935)

Ladies Should Listen (1934)

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Born to Be Bad (1934)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)

I'm No Angel (1933)

Gambling Ship (1933)

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)

The Woman Accused (1933)

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Madame Butterfly (1932)

Hot Saturday (1932)

Blonde Venus (1932)

Devil and the Deep (1932)

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Singapore Sue (1932)

Sinners in the Sun (1932)

This Is the Night (1932)

On Location with Gunga Din
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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1904-01-18
Deathday1986-11-29 (82 years old)
Birth nameArchibald Alec Leach
Place of birthBristol, United Kingdom
Height
RelationshipsBarbara Hutton (1942-01-01 - 1945-01-01), Betsy Drake (1949-12-25 - 1962-01-01), Virginia Cherrill (1934-02-09 - 1935-01-01), Dyan Cannon (1965-07-22 - 1968-01-01)
SpouseBarbara Harris
ChildrenJennifer Grant
FatherElias James Leach
MotherElsie Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, United States of America
Also known asКэри Грант, Archibald Alec Leach, Archibald Leach, Archibald Alexander Leach, Кері Ґрант, 卡莱葛伦
AwardsKennedy Center Honors, Academy Honorary Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor
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