Hitchcock’s Stranger dies aged 85

Film star became famous for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock classics such as Strangers on a Train and Rope The actor Farley Granger, most famous for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train and Rope, has died of natural causes at the age of 85 in New York. In the 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train, Granger starred alongside Robert Walker as a nice guy tennis player who becomes embroiled in a reciprocal murder scheme. In Rope, released three years earlier, he starred as one of two students of a dubious professor, played by James Stewart, who are persuaded to carry out an elaborate homicide. In 2007 he released his memoir, Include Me Out, in which he told of his bisexuality and flings with Ava Gardner, Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters and the composer Leonard Bernstein. His long-time partner Robert Calhoun, with whom he had been in a relationship since 1963, died three years ago. Alfred Hitchcock Thriller United States Ian J Griffiths guardian.co.uk

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