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The Epic That Never Was

as Claudius

1969
Advise & Consent

as Senator Seabright Cooley

1962
Spartacus

as Sempronius Gracchus

1991
Under Ten Flags

as Admiral Russell

1960
Witness for the Prosecution

as Sir Wilfrid Robarts

1957
Hobson's Choice

as Henry Horatio Hobson

1954
Salome

as King Herod

1953
Young Bess

as King Henry VIII

1953
O. Henry's Full House

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

1952
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

as Capt. William Kidd

1952
The Strange Door

as Sire Alain de Maletroit

1951
The Bribe

as J.J. Bealer

1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector Jules Maigret

1949
The Big Clock

as Earl Janoth

1948
The Girl from Manhattan

as The Bishop

1948
The Paradine Case

as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

1947
Because of Him

as John Sheridan

1946
Captain Kidd

as Captain Kidd

1945
The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost

1944
The Suspect

as Philip Marshall

1945
This Land Is Mine

as Albert Lory

1943
The Man from Down Under

as Jocko Wilson

1943
Tales of Manhattan

as Charles Smith

1942
Stand by for Action

as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

1942
The Tuttles of Tahiti

as Jonas

1942
It Started with Eve

as Jonathan Reynolds

1941
They Knew What They Wanted

as Tony Patucci

1940
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as The Hunchback Quasimodo

1939
Jamaica Inn

as Sir Humphrey Pengallan

1939
St. Martin's Lane

as Charles Staggers

1938
Charles Laughton Charles Laughton

Birthday

1899-07-01

Place of Birth

Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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 era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title character. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Big Clock. In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film, the thriller The Night of the Hunter. Daniel Day-Lewis cited Laughton as one of his inspirations, saying: "He was probably the greatest film actor who came from that period of time. He had something quite remarkable. His generosity as an actor, he fed himself into that work. As an actor, you cannot take your eyes off him."
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