Highest Rated: 100% In Name Only (1939)
Lowest Rated: 30% The Pride and the Passion (1957)
Birthday: Jan 18, 1904
Birthplace: Bristol, England, UK
Cary Grant was the quintessential movie star - a leading man whose light comic touch, effortlessly debonair screen presence, and devastating good looks proved timeless in their appeal. After escaping a truly Dickensian childhood in England and paying his dues on the American vaudeville circuit, Grant landed his first leading roles in such features as "She Done Him Wrong" (1933). Having gained notoriety in romantic-comedies like "The Awful Truth" (1937), he went on to star opposite a cavalcade of Hollywood's most luminous leading ladies, including Irene Dunne, Ingrid Bergman, Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Eva Marie Saint and Grace Kelly. Classics like "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) paired the star with many of the greatest directors of the golden age of cinema, including Howard Hawks, George Cukor, Frank Capra, Stanley Donen and, most notably, Alfred Hitchco*ck. For nearly 30 years, Grant remained a major box office draw in hit films that included "Gunga Din" (1939), "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Philadelphia Story" (1941), "Notorious" (1946), "To Catch a Thief" (1955), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "Charade" (1963). So indelible was his contribution to cinema that he was ranked No. 2 on the American Film Institute's list of the 25 Greatest Screen Legends of All Time in 1999, surpassed only by Humphrey Bogart. Perhaps best summing up the myth and reality of the persona he had become so closely identified with, Grant himself once said, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and, finally, I became that person. Or he became me."
Highest rated movies
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83% | | Walk, Don't Run | Sir William Rutland (Character) | - | 1966 |
80% | | Father Goose | Walter Christopher Eckland (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MGM's Big Parade of Comedy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1964 |
94% | | Charade | Peter Joshua (Character) | - | 1963 |
78% | | That Touch of Mink | Philip Shayne (Character) | - | 1962 |
89% | | The Grass Is Greener | Victor Rhyall (Character) | - | 1960 |
81% | | Operation Petticoat | Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman (Character) | - | 1959 |
97% | | North by Northwest | Roger O. Thornhill/ | - | 1959 |
100% | | Indiscreet | Philip Adams (Character) | - | 1958 |
64% | | Houseboat | Tom Winters (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | | Kiss Them for Me | Commander Andy Crewson (Character) | - | 1957 |
67% | | An Affair to Remember | Nickie Ferrante (Character) | - | 1957 |
30% | | The Pride and the Passion | Anthony (Character) | - | 1957 |
92% | | To Catch a Thief | John Robie (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | | Dream Wife | Clemson Reade (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | | Room for One More | George Rose (Character) | - | 1952 |
79% | | Monkey Business | Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Character) | - | 1952 |
88% | | People Will Talk | Dr. Noah Praetorius (Character) | - | 1951 |
71% | | Crisis | Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson (Character) | - | 1950 |
76% | | I Was a Male War Bride | Capt. Henri Rochard (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | | Every Girl Should Be Married | Dr. Madison W. Brown (Character) | - | 1948 |
86% | | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Jim Blandings (Character) | - | 1948 |
78% | | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Dick (Character) | - | 1947 |
85% | | The Bishop's Wife | Dudley (Character) | - | 1947 |
96% | | Notorious | T.R. Devlin (Character) | - | 1946 |
60% | | Night and Day | Cole Porter (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | | None but the Lonely Heart | Ernie Mott (Character) | - | 1944 |
86% | | Arsenic and Old Lace | Mortimer Brewster (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | | Once Upon a Time | Jerry Flynn (Character) | - | 1944 |
67% | | Destination Tokyo | Capt. Cassidy (Character) | - | 1943 |
100% | | Mr. Lucky | Joe Adams/ | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Patrick "Pat" O'Toole (Character) | - | 1942 |
89% | | The Talk of the Town | Leopold Dilg/ | - | 1942 |
97% | | Suspicion | Johnnie Aysgarth (Character) | - | 1941 |
94% | | Penny Serenade | Roger Adams (Character) | - | 1941 |
86% | | My Favorite Wife | Nick (Character) | - | 1940 |
99% | | His Girl Friday | Walter Burns (Character) | - | 1940 |
100% | | The Philadelphia Story | C. K. Dexter Haven (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | | The Howards of Virginia | Matt Howard (Character) | - | 1940 |
93% | | Gunga Din | Sgt. Archibald Cutter (Character) | - | 1939 |
100% | | Only Angels Have Wings | Geoff Carter (Character) | - | 1939 |
100% | | In Name Only | Alec Walker (Character) | - | 1939 |
100% | | Holiday | Johnny Case (Character) | - | 1938 |
97% | | Bringing Up Baby | Dr. David Huxley (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | | When You're in Love | Jimmy Hudson (Character) | - | 1937 |
91% | | The Awful Truth | Jerry Warriner (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | | The Toast of New York | Nick Boyd (Character) | - | 1937 |
89% | | Topper | George Kerby (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | | Wedding Present | Charlie Mason (Character) | - | 1936 |
86% | | Big Brown Eyes | Det. Sgt. Danny Barr (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | | The Amazing Adventure | Ernest Bliss (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | | Suzy | Andre (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | | The Last Outpost | Michael Andrews (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | | Wings in the Dark | Ken Gordon (Character) | - | 1935 |
73% | | Sylvia Scarlett | Jimmy "Monk" Monkley (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enter Madame | Gerald Fitzgerald (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | | Thirty Day Princess | Porter Madison III (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | | Born to Be Bad | Malcolm Trevor (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | | Kiss and Make Up | Dr. Maurice Lamar (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ladies Should Listen | Julian De Lussac (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | | The Eagle and the Hawk | Henry Crocker (Character) | - | 1933 |
60% | | Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle (Character) | - | 1933 |
93% | | I'm No Angel | Jack Clayton (Character) | - | 1933 |
93% | | She Done Him Wrong | Capt. Cummings (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gambling Ship | Ace Corbin (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Woman Accused | Jeffrey Baxter (Character) | - | 1933 |
65% | | Blonde Venus | Nick Townsend (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | | Hot Saturday | Romer Sheffield (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil and the Deep | Lt. Jaeckel (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sinners in the Sun | Ridgeway (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Is the Night | Stephen (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madame Butterfly | Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton (Character) | - | 1932 |