List of Cary Grant performances


Cary Grant 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.
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. 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 and None but the Lonely Heart. He portrayed composer and songwriter Cole Porter in Night and Day. In 1955, he acted alongside Grace Kelly in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed To Catch a Thief. He appeared in Houseboat 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. His performance opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade garnered him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Grant's final film was Walk, Don't Run, retiring to raise his newborn daughter. He died twenty years later in 1986.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1932This Is the NightFilm debut
1932Devil and the Deep
1932Sinners in the SunRidgeway
1932Merrily We Go to HellUK title: Merrily We Go to _____
1932Singapore SueFirst Sailor Short film
1932Blonde Venus
1932Hot Saturday
1932Madame Butterfly
1933She Done Him Wrong
1933The Woman Accused
1933
1933Gambling Ship
1933I'm No Angel
1933Alice in WonderlandThe Mock Turtle
1934Thirty-Day Princess
1934Born to Be Bad
1934Kiss and Make-Up
1934Ladies Should Listen
1935Enter Madame
1935Wings in the Dark
1935
1935Sylvia Scarlett
1936Big Brown Eyes
1936Suzy
1936Alternative titles: Romance and Riches
The Amazing Adventure
1936Wedding Present
1937When You're in LoveUK title: For You Alone
1937Topper
1937
1937
1938Bringing Up Baby
1938Holiday
1939Gunga Din
1939Only Angels Have Wings
1939In Name Only
1940His Girl Friday
1940My Favorite WifeNick
1940UK title: The Tree of Liberty
1940
1941Penny SerenadeNominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
1941SuspicionJohnnie
1942
1942Once Upon a Honeymoon
1943Mr. Lucky
1943Destination Tokyo
1944Once Upon a Time
1944Arsenic and Old Lace
1944None but the Lonely HeartNominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
1946Night and Day
1946Notorious
1947UK title: Bachelor Knight
1947Dudley
1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948Every Girl Should Be Married
1949I Was a Male War BrideUK title: You Can't Sleep Here
1950Crisis
1951People Will Talk
1952Room for One More
1952Monkey Business
1953Dream Wife
1955To Catch a Thief
1957
1957Anthony
1957Kiss Them for Me
1958Indiscreet
1958Houseboat
1959North by Northwest
1959Operation Petticoat
1960
1962That Touch of Mink
1963Charade
1964Father Goose
1966Walk, Don't RunFinal film role

Theatre

YearTitleRoleLocationNotes
1922–1923Better TimesHippodrome TheatrePerformer
1927–1928Golden DawnAnzacHammerstein's Theatre
1929Boom BoomCasino Theatre
1929–1930Majestic Theatre
1930
1931NikkiLongacre Theatre & George M. Cohan's Theatre

Radio

YearProgramEpisode
1935Lux Radio TheatreAdam and Eva
1937Lux Radio TheatreMadame Butterfly
1938Lux Radio TheatreTheodora Goes Wild
1939Lux Radio TheatreOnly Angels Have Wings
1939Lux Radio Theatre
1939Lux Radio TheatreIn Name Only
1941Lux Radio TheatreI Love You Again
1942Lux Radio TheatreHere Comes Mr. Jordan
1943Lux Radio Theatre
1943SuspenseThe Black Curtain
1943Lux Radio TheatreMr. Lucky
1944SuspenseThe Black Curtain
1945Lux Radio TheatreBedtime Story
1946SuspenseThe Black Path of Fear
1948SuspenseThe Last Chance
1949Lux Radio Theatre
1949Lux Radio TheatreEvery Girl Should Be Married
1949Lux Radio TheatreMr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1950Lux Radio TheatreEvery Girl Should Be Married
1950Lux Radio Theatre
1950SuspenseOn a Country Road
1952Lux Radio TheatreRoom for One More
1953Lux Radio TheatreThe Bishop's Wife
1953GE PlayhouseThe Bachelor
1953Lux Radio TheatreI Confess
1954Lux Radio TheatrePeople Will Talk
1954Lux Radio TheatreWelcome Stranger
1955Lux Radio Theatre
1955Lux Radio Theatre

Collaborations

Directors

He was a frequent collaborator with notable directors, such as Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Donen, George Cukor, Leo McCarey, and George Stevens. 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, The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Notorious, North by Northwest and Charade.