Charles Laughton
Acting
🎂 1899-06-30
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."
Cast credits(85)
Self
1956
Self
1950
Self
1948
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Sempronius Gracchus
1960
Self - Guest
1956
Sir Wilfrid
1957
1988
1959
Self
1957
The Hunchback Quasimodo
1939
Self
1954
Captaine Bligh
1935
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
1982
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self (archive footage)
1994
Inspector Emile Javert
1935
actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Cmdr. Charles Sturm
1932
Henry Horatio Hobson
1954
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1952
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
1939
Phineas V. Lambert
1932
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
1947
Rembrandt van Rijn
1936
Sir William Porterhouse
1932
King Herod
1953
Admiral Russell
1960
Self (archive footage)
1972
Reverend
1948
Edwin Kensington
1953
Henry Denry
1953
M. Hamel
1953
J.J. Bealer
1949
Self
1954
Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949
Self
1940
Capt. William Kidd
1952
Charles Smith
1942
Ginger Ted
1938
King Henry VIII
1953
Senator Seabright Cooley
1962
Henry VIII
1933
Galileo (voice)
2019
(archive footage)
1979
Self (archive footage)
2009
Sire Alain de Maletroit
1951
Jonathan Reynolds
1941
Charles Staggers
1938
Captain Kidd
1945
Albert Lory
1943
Self (archive footage)
1982
Jocko Wilson
1943
Dr. Moreau
1932
Edward Moulton-Barrett
1934
Earl Janoth
1948
Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
1932
Fred K. Begley
1951
Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
2014
Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
1942
Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
1969
Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
1944
Phineas V. Lambert
1933
The Bishop
1948
Self
1950
Bellamy
1943
William Marble
1932
Philip Marshall
1945
A Continental Visitor
1929
Tony Patucci
1940
Burglar
1928
Horace H. Prin
1933
Jonas
1942
Inspector Jules Maigret
1949
Marmaduke Ruggles
1935
Ivon Haake
1948
Self (archive footage)
1999
Galileo Galilei
1947
Himself
1930
Captain Grossman
1931
John Sheridan
1946
Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
1928
Father of the Family
1928
Captain Job
1930
