The most successful aspect of the production was generally considered to be Hume Cronyn's performance as Polonius, winning Cronyn the only Tony Award that he would ever receive in a competitive category.

Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater.

Among them are Leonard Bernstein ( in the 1950s ), Comedian Michael Ian Black, Daryl Hall ( of Hall & Oates ), Jascha Heifetz ( in the 1940s ), Charles Ives, Hope Lange, film director Barry Levinson ( a current resident ), rock singer Meat Loaf ( Marvin Lee Aday who was Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s ), actress Jessica Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn ( in the 1940s and 1950s ) and Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary.

In 1953 his play Glory in the Flower was telecast on Omnibus with a cast of Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and James Dean.

Hume Blake Cronyn, OC ( July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003 ) was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.

Hume Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr., a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London ( after whom the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory and asteroid ( 12050 ) Humecronyn are named ) and Frances Amelia ( née Labatt ), an heiress of the brewing company of the same name.

His paternal grandfather, Verschoyle Cronyn, was the son of the Right Reverend Benjamin Cronyn, an Anglican cleric of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, who served as first bishop of the Anglican diocese of Huron, and founder of Huron College, from which grew the University of Western Ontario.

Hume Cronyn was the first Elmwood School boarder ( at the time Elmwood was called Rockliffe Preparatory School ) and boarded at Elmwood between 1917 and 1921.

Early in life, Cronyn was an amateur featherweight boxer, having the skills to be nominated for the 1932 Canadian Olympic Boxing Team.

The show was scheduled to move from radio to television, with Cronyn producing as well as acting in the show.

Cronyn appeared on the infamous Hollywood blacklist for a time-not because of his own political activity ( Cronyn was long believed to shy away from political activism )-but because he had hired, often without caring about their politics, staff members who had already been blacklisted.

After he was widowed, Cronyn married author Susan Cooper in July 1996.

Cronyn was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1999.

Hume Cronyn suffered two cracked ribs and nearly drowned when he was caught under a water-activator making waves for a storm scene.

That was followed by Death of a Salesman at the Guthrie with both Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.

The novel was turned in to a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie, starring Hume Cronyn as Sam Peek and Jessica Tandy as Cora.

Sosigenes was portrayed by Hume Cronyn in the 1963 movie Cleopatra.

* Hume Cronyn was nominated four times, but he never won this award.

* Hume Cronyn as Herbie Hawkins, a neighbor who, like Charlie's father, is also a crime fiction buff.

During these years, she appeared in films such as Cocoon ( 1985 ), also with Cronyn.

Cronyn also made appearances in television, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " Kill With Kindness " ( 1956 ) and Hawaii Five-O episodes " Over Fifty, Steal " ( 1970 ) and " Odd Man In " ( 1971 ).

* Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn ; the married couple spent a lot of time on the island also at Goat Cay for many years, and Sigourney Weaver vacationed there with her family.

She also reteamed with actor / director Bruce Davison for his 2001 family comedy, Showtime's Off Season alongside Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn and Adam Arkin.

Broadcast live by NBC for seven episodes in the summer of 1954, the series stars real-life couple Hume Cronyn ( who also produced the show ) and Jessica Tandy as a New York lawyer and his wife with two children, played by Susan Strasberg and Malcolm Brodrick.

The television series was adapted from an NBC radio series of the same title, also starring Cronyn and Tandy and written by Kinoy, that ran from October 1953 to February 1954.

* 15-Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-born American actor ; husband of Oscar-winning actress Jessica Tandy.

It presented summer theater where shows featured well-known stars such as Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Tallulah Bankhead, and Helen Hayes.

* TCM Remembers 2003: Karen Morley, Penny Singleton, Donald O ' Connor, David Hemmings, Art Carney, screenwriter David Newman, cinematographer Conrad Hall, director George Roy Hill, director Leni Riefenstahl, Kenneth Tobey, John Ritter, director Norman Panama, composer Michael Kamen, Martha Scott, Hume Cronyn, Buddy Hackett, Johnny Cash, Hope Lange, Richard Crenna, Sheb Wooley, Jack Elam, Gregory Hines, screenwriter George Axelrod, screenwriter Peter Stone, producer Philip Yordan, director Elia Kazan, Jeanne Crain, Horst Buchholz, Wendy Hiller, Bob Hope, screenwriter Daniel Taradash, Buddy Ebsen, director John Schlesinger, Robert Stack, Charles Bronson, Gregory Peck and Katharine Hepburn.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

It stars Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon, Hal Scardino and Dan Hedaya.

The many performers who have appeared at the theatre include Pearl Bailey, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore, Warren Beatty, Sarah Bernhardt, Claire Bloom, Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, Fanny Brice, Carol Channing, George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Katharine Cornell, Hume Cronyn, Tim Curry, Denishawn, Ruth Draper, Todd Duncan, Maurice Evans, Lillian Gish, Ruth Gordon, Julie Harris, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Joseph Jefferson, James Earl Jones, Lucille La Verne, Eva LeGallienne, Jerry Lewis, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Eartha Kitt, Ian McKellen, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Rita Moreno, Helen Morgan, Rosie O ' Donnell, Laurence Olivier, Annie Oakley, Geraldine Page, Robert Redford, Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Will Rogers, Rosalind Russell, George C. Scott, Kevin Spacey, Sting, Jessica Tandy, Norma Terris, Marlo Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Franchot Tone, Rip Torn and Liv Ullmann.

* 1911 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

* July 18 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

* Hume Cronyn – Louis Howe

Her career began as a child actress in radio and television, and has spanned virtually all forms of stage and screen ( large and small ) dramatic and comic entertainment --- including, as a teenager, playing the daughter of a lawyer and a former fashion buyer ( Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy ) on the short lived NBC radio comedy-drama, The Marriage ( 1953 – 1954 ).

** Hume Cronyn – Big Fish, Little Fish as Jimmie Luton

** Hume Cronyn – A Delicate Balance as Tobias

** Hume Cronyn – The Gin Game as Weller Martin

** Hume Cronyn – The Petition as General Sir Edmund Milne

Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn " Jack " Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey GCB, KBE, DSO, DCL ( 7 March 1885 – 12 January 1971 ) was a Royal Navy admiral who served in both World Wars.

Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds ( 1963 ), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game ( 1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn ).

The cast starred Anne Bancroft ( Kate ), Hume Cronyn ( Ben ), Jerry Orbach ( Jack ), Jonathan Silverman ( Stan ) and Corey Parker ( Eugene ).