Claude Rains

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1889-11-09 (78 years old)

Deathday

1967-05-30

Place of Birth

Clapham, London, England, UK

Claude Rains

Biography

Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, perhaps his most famous performance, Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942). Rains was born William Claude Rains in Camberwell, London on November 10, 1889. He grew up, according to his daughter, with "a very serious cockney accent and a speech impediment". His father was British stage actor Frederick Rains, and the young Rains mad...

Acting

1943

Casablanca

as Captain Louis Renault

1946

Notorious

as Alexander Sebastian

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

as Mr. Dryden

1939

1960

The Lost World

as Prof. George Edward Challenger

1933

The Invisible Man

as Dr. Jack Griffin

1950

Where Danger Lives

as Frederick Lannington

1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Julius Caesar

1961

Battle of the Worlds

as Professor Benson

1946

Deception

as Alexander Hollenius

1939

They Made Me a Criminal

as Det. Monty Phelan

1942

Now, Voyager

as Dr. Jaquith

1940

The Sea Hawk

as Don José Alvarez de Cordoba

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1934

1941

The Wolf Man

as Sir John Talbot

1947

The Unsuspected

as Victor Grandison

1942

Moontide

as Nutsy

1937

The Prince and the Pauper

as Earl of Hertford

1944

Mr. Skeffington

as Job Skeffington

1943

Forever and a Day

as Ambrose Pomfret

1949

Rope of Sand

as Arthur 'Fred' Martingale

1936

Anthony Adverse

as Marquis Don Luis

1943

Phantom of the Opera

as Erique Claudin

1920

Build Thy House

as Clarkis

1935

The Clairvoyant

as Maximus

1941

1938

Four Daughters

as Adam Lemp

1944

Passage to Marseille

as Captain Freycinet

1937

They Won't Forget

as District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin

1949

The Passionate Friends

as Howard Justin

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1942

Kings Row

as Alexander Tower

1935

1950

The White Tower

as Paul Delambre

1935

The Last Outpost

as John Stevenson

1939

Juarez

as Emperor Louis Napoleon III

1940

Lady with Red Hair

as David Belasco

1938

White Banners

as Paul Ward

1939

Four Wives

as Adam Lemp

1945

Strange Holiday

as John Stevenson

1959

This Earth Is Mine

as Philippe Rambeau

1939

Daughters Courageous

as Jim Masters

1941

Four Mothers

as Adam Lemp

1957

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

as Mayor of Hamelin

1940

Saturday's Children

as Mr. Henry Halevy

1963

Twilight of Honor

as Art Harper

1936

Hearts Divided

as Napoleon Bonaparte

1937

Stolen Holiday

as Stefan Orloff

1951

Sealed Cargo

as Capt. Henrik Skalder

1945

This Love of Ours

as Joseph Targel

1938

Gold Is Where You Find It

as Colonel Ferris

1956

Lisbon

as Aristides Mavros

1939

Sons of Liberty

as Haym Salomon

2013

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

as Self (archive footage)

2000

The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

as Erique Claudin (archive footage)

1949

Song of Surrender

as Elisha Hunt

1946

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Claude Rains (archive footage) (uncredited)

1996

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1935

Scrooge

as Jacob Marley (voice) (uncredited)

1957

On Borrowed Time

as Mr. Brink

2007

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)

1959

Judgment at Nuremberg

as Judge Dan Haywood

2023

The dark Universe

as El hombre invisible (archivo de imagen)

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