Cary Grant

ActorProducerCrew Jan 18 (died age 82) Horfield, Bristol, England, UK 1932–2026 (94 year career)

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Biography

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was a British-American actor, celebrated for his debonair charm, impeccable comic timing, and sophisticated screen presence. He became one of Hollywood’s most iconic leading men, starring in classics such as Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), Notorious (1946), and North by Northwest (1959). Grant had a difficult childhood, marked by his mother’s institutionalization and his father’s alcoholism. At 16, he …

Known For

Film

North by Northwest

Roger Thornhill

Film

Notorious

T.R. Devlin

Film

Charade

Peter Joshua

Film

To Catch a Thief

John Robie

Film

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster

Film

Bringing Up Baby

David Huxley

Film

The Philadelphia Story

C.K. Dexter Haven

Film

His Girl Friday

Walter Burns

Filmography

Acting (163)

Movies (154)

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

2026

as Self (archive footage)

8.2

True Blue

2025

as (Archive Footage)

Clemence & Alexis

2025

as Archive

The Trouble With Forgetting

2024

as (archive footage)

Rat Pack

2022

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

Becoming Marilyn

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

2022

as Self (archive footage)

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

2021

8.0

Hitchcock Confidential

2019

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.4

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Becoming Cary Grant

2017

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Discovering Audrey Hepburn

2015

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

2012

as Self (archive footage)

7.2

Metropolis Refound

2010

as Self (archive footage)

5.4

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

2009

as Self (archive footage)

Behind The Gates: Cary Grant And Grace Kelly

2009

as Self (archive footage)

Warner at War

2008

as (archive footage)

7.0

Hippies

2007

as Self (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007

as Self (archive footage)

4.3

On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

On Location with Gunga Din

2004

as Archibald Cutter (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love

2003

as Self (Archive Footage)

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

2002

as (archive footage)

7.5

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

2002

as Self (archive footage)

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

2000

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

1999

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997

as Self (archive footage)

4.9

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

1994

1.0

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990

as (archive footage)

9.0

Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

1990

Marilyn: Something's Got to Give

1990

as Self (archive footage)

4.5

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

1990

as (archive footage)

5.7

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

1988

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

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

1988

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special

1986

as Self

9.0

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

1986

as Self

6.0

That's Dancing!

1985

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

All Star Party for Lucille Ball

1984

as Self

6.0

Notre Dame de la Croisette

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

1983

as Self

6.0

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982

as (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

6.7

Showbiz Goes to War

1982

as (archive footage)

10.0

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

1979

as Self

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years

1979

as Self

It's Showtime

1976

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

Songs for After a War

1976

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5

Hooray for Hollywood

1976

as Self (archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

6.1

That's Entertainment!

1974

as (archive footage)

7.4

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

1973

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Elvis: That's the Way It Is

1970

as Self

7.9

The Killer of Fossil Gulch

1970

as The Victim / The Head Juror (uncredited)

7.0

Walk Don't Run

1966

as Sir William Rutland

6.5

Father Goose

1964

as Walter Christopher Eckland

7.0

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964

as Andre Charville (archive footage)

Charade

as Peter Joshua

That Touch of Mink

as Philip Shayne

The Grass Is Greener

as Victor Rhyall

North by Northwest

as Roger Thornhill

Operation Petticoat

as Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman

Houseboat

as Tom Winters

Indiscreet

as Philip Adams

An Affair to Remember

1957

as Nickie Ferrante

7.4

Kiss Them for Me

1957

as Cmdr. Andrew " Andy" Crewson

5.5

The Pride and the Passion

as Anthony

To Catch a Thief

as John Robie

Dream Wife

as Clemson Reade

Monkey Business

as Barnaby Fulton

Room for One More

as George "Poppy" Rose

6.5

People Will Talk

1951

as Dr. Noah Praetorius

7.1

Crisis

1950

as Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson

6.6

I Was a Male War Bride

1949

as Capt. Henri Rochard

6.9

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1948

as Jim Blandings

7.0

Every Girl Should Be Married

1948

as Dr. Madison W. Brown

5.9

The Bishop's Wife

1947

as Dudley

7.1

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

as Richard Nugent

Blow-Ups of 1947

as Self

Notorious

as T.R. Devlin

Night and Day

as Cole Porter

Without Reservations

as Cary Grant (uncredited)

6.2

George White's Scandals

1945

as Cary Grant (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.3

The Road to Victory

1944

as Cary Grant (uncredited)

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Mortimer Brewster

The Shining Future

as Self

None But the Lonely Heart

as Ernie Mott

Once Upon a Time

as Jerry Flynn

Mr. Lucky

as Joe Adams

Destination Tokyo

as Captain Cassidy

The Talk of the Town

as Leopold Dilg

Once Upon a Honeymoon

as Patrick O'Toole

Breakdowns of 1942

as Self

Suspicion

as John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth

7.1

Penny Serenade

1941

as Roger Adams

6.6

A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital

1940

as Self

6.0

The Philadelphia Story

as C.K. Dexter Haven

My Favorite Wife

as Nick Arden

His Girl Friday

as Walter Burns

The Howards of Virginia

1940

as Matt Howard

6.5

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940

as Self

6.7

Only Angels Have Wings

as Geoff Carter

In Name Only

as Alec Walker

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

as Self

Gunga Din

as Archibald Cutter

Bringing Up Baby

as David Huxley

Holiday

as Johnny Case

Topper Takes a Trip

as George Kerby (archive footage)

6.5

The Toast of New York

as Nick Boyd

Topper

as George Kerby

The Awful Truth

as Jerry Warriner

When You're in Love

as Jimmy Hudson

Big Brown Eyes

as Detective Sergeant Danny Barr

6.3

Wedding Present

1936

as Charlie Mason

6.5

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

as Self

Suzy

as Andre

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

as Ernest Bliss

Sylvia Scarlett

as Jimmy Monkley

Wings in the Dark

as Ken Gordon

The Last Outpost

as Michael Andrews

Enter Madame

as Gerald Fitzgerald

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

as Guest on Isle

Ladies Should Listen

as Julian De Lussac

Born to Be Bad

as Malcolm Trevor

Thirty Day Princess

as Porter Madison III

Kiss and Make-Up

as Dr. Maurice Lamar

The Woman Accused

as Jeffrey Baxter

Gambling Ship

as Ace Corbin

Alice in Wonderland

as Mock Turtle

She Done Him Wrong

as Captain Cummings

I'm No Angel

as Jack Clayton

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933

as Henry Crocker

6.6

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sinners in the Sun

as Ridgeway

Singapore Sue

as First Sailor

Hot Saturday

as Romer Sheffield

Blonde Venus

as Nick Townsend

This Is the Night

as Stephen Mathewson

Madame Butterfly

as Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton

5.2

Merrily We Go to Hell

as Charlie Baxter

Devil and the Deep

as Lt. Jaeckel

Television (9)

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

as Self

7.4

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self (archive footage)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

V.I.P. Schaukel

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

MGM Parade

Reflets de Cannes

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

7.2

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

The Grass Is Greener

Executive Producer

Topper Takes a Trip

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