Hume Cronyn's Parents and Wife: 10 Family Facts

1. #002

   He met his wife Jessica Tandy in 1940, and they married in 1942.

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2. #006

   At the time of his death, he had eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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3. #008

   His father, Hume Blake Cronyn, has an observatory at the University of Western Ontario dedicated to him. The refracting telescope was the largest ever built in the Western Hemisphere at the time.

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4. #011

   His mother was an heiress to the Labatt Brewing Company. Hume's maternal great-grandfather, John Kinder Labatt, founded it, and Hume's maternal grandfather, John Labatt, later took over control of the company.

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5. #012

   His son was Christopher Cronyn and his daughter was Tandy Cronyn. His granddaughter was Katherine Cronyn.

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6. #015

   1932: He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society at McGill University.

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7. #016

   At the age of 85, he married his third wife, Susan Cooper, who had served as a writer on Foxfire (1987), in which he had starred alongside his late previous wife, Jessica Tandy.

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8. #020

   Hume Cronyn's stepchildren were Jonathan Grant and Kate Glennon.

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9. #023

   Hume Cronyn was a once-removed first cousin of the actor Graham Jarvis. Their common ancestors were John Labatt and Catherine Matilda Biddulph, Cronyn's maternal grandparents and Jarvis's maternal great-grandparents.

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10. #024

    Hume Cronyn was a cousin of the producer Robert Whitehead.

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