All 72 Cary Grant movies: ‘I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.’

This is a chronological list of all 72 of Cary Grant’s films, with his character name and the film’s release date.

Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was born in Horfield, Bristol, England as Archibald Alec Leach. He became a naturalized US citizen on June 26, 1942, aged 38, and legally changed his name to Cary Grant.

He said he did ‘everything in moderation. Except making love’. He also said: ‘I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.’

Grant was married five times. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 9, 1934. He married Barbara Hutton in 1942, one of the wealthiest women in the world. They were derisively nicknamed ‘Cash and Cary’. He married Betsy Drake on December 25, 1949. They starred together in two films and it was his longest marriage, Grant married Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965. their daughter Jennifer was born on February 26, 1966, his only child. On April 11, 1981, Grant married Barbara Harris, a British hotel public relations agent who was 47 years his junior. Grant lived with Randolph Scott off and on for 12 years after meeting in 1932 at the Paramount studio.

All 72 Cary Grant movies

This is the Night Stephen 4/8/1932

Sinners in the Sun Ridgeway 5/13/1932

Merrily We Go to Hell Charlie Exeter 6/10/1932

Devil and the Deep Lt Jaekel 8/12/1932

Blonde Venus Nick Townsend 9/16/1932

Hot Saturday Romer Sheffield 10/28/1932

Madame Butterfly Lt B.F. Pinkerton 12/30/1932

She Done Him Wrong Capt Cummings 1/27/1933

The Woman Accused Jeffrey Baxter 2/17/1933

The Eagle and the Hawk Henry Crocker 5/19/1933

Gambling Ship Ace Corbin 6/23/1933

I’m No Angel Jack Clayton 10/6/1933

Alice in Wonderland Mock Turtle 12/22/1933

Thirty-Day Princess Porter Madison III 5/18/1934

Born to be Bad Malcolm Trevor 5/18/1934

Kiss and Make Up Dr Maurice Lamar 7/13/1934

Ladies Should Listen Julian de Lussac 8/10/1934

Enter Madame! Gerald Fitzgerald 1/4/1935

Wings in the Dark Ken Gordon 2/1/1935

The Last Outpost Michael Andrews 10/11/1935

Sylvia Scarlett Jimmy Monkley 1/3/1936

Big Brown Eyes Danny Barr 4/3/1936

Suzy Andre Charville 8/24/1936

Wedding Present Charlie Mason 10/9/1936

When You’re in Love Jimmy Hudson 2/12/1937

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss [The Amazing Adventure] [Riches and Romance] Ernest Bliss 2/27/1937

Topper George Kerby 7/16/1937

The Toast of New York Nick Boyd 7/30/1937

The Awful Truth Jerry Warriner 10/21/1937

Bringing Up Baby David Huxley 3/18/1938

Holiday Johnny Case 6/15/1938 Gunga Din Cutter 2/17/1939

Only Angels Have Wings Jeff Carter 5/25/1939

In Name Only Alec Walker 8/18/1939

His Girl Friday Walter Burns 1/18/1940

My Favorite Wife Nick Arden 5/17/1940

The Howards of Virginia Matt Howard 9/19/1940

The Philadelphia Story CK Dexter Haven 1/17/1941

Penny Serenade Roger Adams 4/24/1941

Suspicion Johnnie Aysgarth 11/14/1941

The Talk of the Town Leopold Dilg 8/20/1942

Once Upon a Honeymoon Pat O’Toole 11/27/1942

Mr Lucky Joe Adams 1/1943

Destination Tokyo Captain Cassidy 1/1/1944

Once Upon a Time Jerry Flynn 5/11/1944

None But the Lonely Heart Ernie Mott 9/22/1944

Arsenic and Old Lace Mortimer Brewster 9/23/1944

Night and Day Cole Porter 7/2/1946

Notorious Devlin 7/22/1946

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Dick Nugent 9/1/1947

The Bishop’s Wife Dudley 11/13/1947

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Jim Blandings 3/25/1948

Every Girl Should Be Married Dr Madison Brown 12/25/1948

I Was a Male War Bride Capt Henri Rochard 9/2/1949

Crisis Dr Eugene Ferguson 7/4/1950

People Will Talk Dr Noah Praetorius 7/16/1951

Room For One More George ‘Poppy’ Rose 1/26/1952

Monkey Business Prof Barnaby Fulton 9/15/1952

Dream Wife Clemson Reade 6/19/1953

To Catch a Thief John Robie 9/1955

An Affair to Remember Nickie Ferrante 7/2/1957

The Pride and the Passion Anthony 7/10/1957

Kiss Them For Me Crewson 12/10/1957

Indiscreet Philip Adams 5/20/1958

Houseboat Tom Winters 11/19/1958

North by Northwest Roger Thornhill 7/17/1959

Operation Petticoat Lt Cmdr Matt Sherman 12/2/1959

The Grass Is Greener Victor Rhyall 1/1961

That Touch of Mink Philip Shayne 7/18/1962

Charade Peter Joshua/ Alexander Dyle/ Adam Canfield 12/25/1963

Father Goose Walter Eckland 12/24/1964

Walk, Don’t Run William Rutland 7/15/1966

Also: Cary Grant’s first film appearance in Singapore Sue (1931) (short), the 20-minute short Pirate Party on Catalina Island (1936), the 10-minute short for the war effort Road to Victory (1944), a lengthy cameo in Without Reservations (1946), and three minutes of Will Rogers Foundation Commercial and Savings Bond Promotion with Shirley Temple and Myrna Loy.

The 10-minute short Singapore Sue was filmed in 1931 at Paramount’s Astoria studios when Cary Grant was appearing in the Broadway play Nikki under his real name of Archie Leach. He plays First Sailor (uncredited).