10 Classic "American" Actors You Won't Believe Are Actually Foreign
2. Cary Grant Sure, Cary Grant had an accent, but it was a wicked combination of English and British known as a Transatlantic accent. In the same way as Chaplin, Grant is such an American icon that it is surprising that he is in fact a native of Britain. Quoting one of the people I surveyed for this article, Wait, he is British? I just thought all old timey actors talked like that". The question is how I should describe a career as vast and great as Mr. Grant. Like most classic Hollywood stars, he ran on his persona. He had the quick comic touch, suave attitude and was considered one of the best looking actors of his era. In a sense, George Clooney is a modern equivalent. His charisma was ever present, lifting films such as Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House from the dust bin to a comedic classic. His roles opposite Katherine Hepburn in screwball comedies such as Howard Hawks Bringing Up Baby and George Cukors The Philadelphia Story are perhaps the greatest comedic pairing of all time, and then he would go on to portray troubled spies in Hitchcock films such as Notorious and North by Northwest. With that resume and the reverence people have for Cary Grant, he is clearly one of the greatest Hollywood stars of all time.