List of Cary Grant performances

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.

Films

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), George Cukor (Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story), Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth, Once Upon a Honeymoon, An Affair to Remember), George Stevens (Gunga Din, Penny Serenade, The Talk of the Town), and Stanley Donen (Indiscreet, Charade, The Grass Is Greener). 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).

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)

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]

Theatre

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

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]

Radio

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]