Biography: life and films
Cary Grant was an English actor whose birth name was Archibald Alexander Leach. He was born in Bristol, England on 18th January 1904 and died in Davenport, Iowa, USA on 29th November 1986, aged 82.His best films as an actor include Leo McCarey's comedy The Awful Truth (1937), Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story (1940) and Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North by Northwest (1959).
Cary Grant appeared in 82 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Howard Hawks (5 films), Stanley Donen (4), Alfred Hitchcock (4), Marion Gering (3), Leo McCarey (3), George Stevens (3), George Cukor (3), Norman Z. McLeod (2), Lowell Sherman (2), H.C. Potter (2), Frank Tuttle (2) and Alexander Hall (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (39 films), comedy-romance (35), drama (20), romance (17), War (11), comedy-drama (10), Thriller (10), Documentary (9), comedy-thriller (6), Fantasy (6), crime-thriller (3), Biography (3) and history (2).
Our average rating for Cary Grant over all films is: 3.4
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Devil and the Deep (1932) [a]
Hot Saturday (1932) [a]
Madame Butterfly (1932) [a]
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) [a]
Sinners in the Sun (1932) [a]
This Is the Night (1932) [a]
Alice in Wonderland (1933) [a]
Gambling Ship (1933) [a]
I'm No Angel (1933) [a]
She Done Him Wrong (1933) [a]
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) [a]
The Woman Accused (1933) [a]
Born to Be Bad (1934) [a]
Kiss and Make-Up (1934) [a]
Ladies Should Listen (1934) [a]
Thirty Day Princess (1934) [a]
Enter Madame (1935) [a]
The Last Outpost (1935) [a]
Wings in the Dark (1935) [a]
Big Brown Eyes (1936) [a]
Suzy (1936) [a]
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) [a]
Wedding Present (1936) [a]
The Toast of New York (1937) [a]
Topper (1937) [a]
When You're in Love (1937) [a]
Holiday (1938) [a]
Gunga Din (1939) [a]
In Name Only (1939) [a]
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) [a]
The Howards of Virginia (1940) [a]
The Philadelphia Story (1940) [a]
Suspicion (1941) [a]
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) [a]
The Talk of the Town (1942) [a]
Destination Tokyo (1943) [a]
Mr. Lucky (1943) [a]
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [a]
None But the Lonely Heart (1944) [a]
Once Upon a Time (1944) [a]
Notorious (1946) [a]
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) [a]
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) [a]
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) [a]
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) [a]
Crisis (1950) [a]
Room for One More (1952) [a]
Dream Wife (1953) [a]
An Affair to Remember (1957) [a]
Kiss Them for Me (1957) [a]
The Pride and the Passion (1957) [a]
Houseboat (1958) [a]
Operation Petticoat (1959) [a]
The Grass Is Greener (1960) [a]
Charade (1963) [a]
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) [a]
Walk Don't Run (1966) [a]
Hooray for Hollywood (1975) [a]
Canciones para después de una guerra (1976) [a]
It's Showtime (1976) [a]
That's Action (1977) [a]
Ken Murray Shooting Stars (1979) [a]
Notre Dame de la Croisette (1981) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
Ingrid (1984) [a]
Trumbo (2015) [a]
The very best American film comedies
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
