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Cary Grant

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Cary Grant

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Also known as Archibald Alexander Leach, Archibald Alec Leach

British-American actor (1904–1986)

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Cary Grant was a male actor from the United Kingdom whose professional career spanned from 1932 to 1966. Born on January 18, 1904, and standing 184 centimeters tall, he passed away on November 29, 1986. His work is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

In addition to his acting career, Grant is associated with five works, including *Burnt - I Want My Life Back*, *Do You Like What You See?*, *Burnt - Christmas on Fire*, *Max*, and *Burnt - the Complete Series*. He has been tagged with UK and England on Last.fm, where he shares similar artists with Gloria De Haven, Jan Garber Orchestra, Manuel Sorrosal, The Continental, and Nat Gonella and His Georgians.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Burnt - I Want My Life Back
  • Do You Like What You See?
  • Burnt - Christmas on Fire
  • Max
  • Burnt - the Complete Series

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1962-07-10
vgm

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,800
Total plays
5,643

Tags

UKengland

Similar artists

Gloria De HavenJan Garber OrchestraManuel SorrosalThe ContinentalNat Gonella and His Georgians

Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904–November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took US citizenship. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Noted for his dramatic roles as well as screwball comedy <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cary+Grant">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,783x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,698x

  3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

  4. Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II

    · 1993 · cited 10,581x

  5. Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm

    · 1996 · cited 10,495x

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Quotes

  • “I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
  • “I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
  • “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
  • “I often think my life has been a failure. But whenever I drop into a theater and hear women laugh at one of my films, I think, well, if I brightened their day before they went home and did the dishes, maybe my life wasn't wasted, after all.”
  • “I do! I don't remember ever saying it in a movie, but now, every once in a while when I'm with friends, I say, "Judeeee, Judeeee, Judeeee," and everyone breaks up. Isn't that a good imitation of an imitation of an imitator?”
  • “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between times, I occupy myself as best I can.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was an English-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second-greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999.

Grant was born into an impoverished family in Bristol, where he had an unhappy childhood marked by the absence of his mother, and his father's alcoholism. He became attracted to theatre at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome. At 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of the US. After a series of successful performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cary Grant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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