List of Cary Grant performances

Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was a British actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. Grant acted in at least 76 films between 1932 and 1966. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second-greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart).

Grant first began acting in Broadway plays in the 1920s, going by his birth name Archie Leach. He made his film debut with a minor role in This Is the Night (1932). Beginning in the 1930s, Grant appeared in over 20 radio programs, usually Lux Radio Theatre.

In 1940, Grant appeared opposite Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday. Grant was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor in Penny Serenade (1941) and None but the Lonely Heart (1944). He portrayed composer and songwriter Cole Porter in Night and Day (1946). In 1955, he acted alongside Grace Kelly in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed To Catch a Thief. He appeared in Houseboat (1958) with Sophia Loren. That year he also appeared in Indiscreet with Ingrid Bergman, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 1959, Grant starred alongside Eva Marie Saint in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed North by Northwest. His next role was alongside Doris Day in That Touch of Mink (1962). His performance opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963) garnered him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Grant's final film was Walk, Don't Run (1966), retiring to raise his newborn daughter. He died twenty years later in 1986.

Directors
The many directors with whom Grant worked throughout his film career include Frank Capra, George Cukor, Stanley Donen, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Delbert Mann, Ralph Nelson, Clifford Odets, Leo McCarey, Sidney Sheldon, George Stevens and Norman Taurog.

Actors
Actors with whom Grant worked include Edward Arnold, Richard Arlen, Lew Ayres, Ralph Bellamy, Noah Beery Jr., Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jose Ferrer, Melvyn Douglas, John Garfield, Chester Morris, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Laughton, Martin Landau, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Fredric March, Raymond Massey, Robert Mitchum, David Niven, Jack Oakie, Victor McLaglen, Walter Pidgeon, Irving Pichel, Claude Rains, Gilbert Roland, Charles Ruggles, Randolph Scott, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Monty Woolley, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Henry Travers.

Actresses
Actresses with whom Grant worked include Jean Adair, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, Constance Bennett, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Caron, Doris Day, Betsy Drake, Irene Dunne, Samantha Eggar, Sophia Loren, Frances Farmer, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlowe, Josephine Hull, Deborah Kerr, Grace Kelly, Carol Lombard, Priscilla Lane, Elissa Landi, Helen Mack, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Suzy Parker, Rosalind Russell, Eva Marie Saint, Martha Scott, Ann Sheridan, Sylvia Sidney, Alexis Smith, Ginger Rogers, Martha Scott and Loretta Young.

Accolades
Grant starred in ten films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Notorious (1946), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).