Wiry, short and enormously versatile triple-threat talent who successfully conducted simultaneous careers on stage and screen. A much-lauded Broadway presence (as actor, director, producer and writer) from the 1930s, Cronyn made his screen debut as the literal-minded, snooping, armchair detective-neighbor in Hitchcock's understated thriller, SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943); he also collaborated on the screenplays for the director's ROPE (1948) and UNDER CAPRICORN (1949) and appeared as the ship's radio operator in LIFEBOAT (1944). Initially cast as ruthless, coolly intelligent villains such as the Nazi collaborator in THE CROSS OF LORRAINE (1943) and the sadistic warden in BRUTE FORCE (1947), Cronyn played everything from a jealous physician, in PEOPLE WILL TALK (1951), to Roosevelt's gruff counselor, Louis Howe, in SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO (1960). Teamed with actress Jessica Tandy, to whom he was married from 1942 until her death in 1994, Cronyn starred on Broadway (The Fourposter, A Delicate Balance, The Gin Game, Foxfire), in numerous tours, on a TV series (The Marriage 1954) and, more recently, on screen, in a series of cantankerous-old-codger roles in COCOON (1985), its 1988 sequel and *batteries not included (1987).  Nominated for Supporting Actor 1944: THE SEVENTH CROSS 1 nomination