Charles Laughton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-06-30 (63 years old)

Deathday

1962-12-15

Place of Birth

Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Charles Laughton

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making an impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Broadway and then Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on notable British films of the...

Acting

1960

Spartacus

as Sempronius Gracchus

1932

1952

O. Henry's Full House

as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

1932

The Old Dark House

as Sir William Porterhouse

1947

The Paradine Case

as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as The Hunchback Quasimodo

1939

Jamaica Inn

as Sir Humphrey Pengallan

1945

The Suspect

as Philip Marshall

1949

The Bribe

as J.J. Bealer

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

1941

It Started with Eve

as Jonathan Reynolds

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Captaine Bligh

1942

Tales of Manhattan

as Charles Smith

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1953

Salome

as King Herod

1948

Arch of Triumph

as Ivon Haake

1932

Payment Deferred

as William Marble

1935

Ruggles of Red Gap

as Marmaduke Ruggles

1957

1943

1945

Captain Kidd

as Captain Kidd

1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1935

Les Misérables

as Inspector Emile Javert

1953

Young Bess

as King Henry VIII

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Albert Lory

1952

1946

Because of Him

as John Sheridan

1954

Hobson's Choice

as Henry Horatio Hobson

1949

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector Jules Maigret

1962

Advise & Consent

as Senator Seabright Cooley

1951

The Strange Door

as Sire Alain de Maletroit

1944

The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost

1936

Rembrandt

as Rembrandt van Rijn

1932

The Sign of the Cross

as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar

1929

Piccadilly

as A Continental Visitor

1948

The Big Clock

as Earl Janoth

1932

Devil and the Deep

as Cmdr. Charles Sturm

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1940

1942

Stand by for Action

as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

1932

If I Had a Million

as Phineas V. Lambert

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1938

St. Martin's Lane

as Charles Staggers

1951

The Blue Veil

as Fred K. Begley

1960

Under Ten Flags

as Admiral Russell

1948

1938

Vessel of Wrath

as Ginger Ted

1982

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1969

The Epic That Never Was

as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)

1933

White Woman

as Horace H. Prin

1943

2014

1928

Blue Bottles

as Burglar

1928

Daydreams

as Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence

1928

The Tonic

as Father of the Family

1930

Comets

as Himself

1930

Wolves

as Captain Job

1931

Down River

as Captain Grossman

1947

Leben des Galilei

as Galileo Galilei

1933

The Clerk

as Phineas V. Lambert

1949

The Art Director

as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

1948

On Our Merry Way

as Reverend

1994

Production

1955

1939

Jamaica Inn

as Producer

1938

St. Martin's Lane

as Additional Writing

1938

1938

Vessel of Wrath

as Producer

1947

1964

The Life of Galileo

as Translator

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