Charles Laughton

Personal Info

Birthday

June 30, 1899

Day of Death

1962-12-15

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Чарльз Лотон

찰스 로턴

찰스 로튼

Чарльз Лаутон

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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.

Known For

Spartacus

Witness for the Prosecution

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

St. Martin's Lane

Brecht

Rembrandt

Mutiny on the Bounty

General Electric Theater

Filmography

2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1969
The Epic That Never Was
as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
1962
Advise & Consent
as Senator Seabright Cooley
1960
Spartacus
as Sempronius Gracchus
Under Ten Flags
as Admiral Russell
1957
Witness for the Prosecution
as Sir Wilfrid
1954
Hobson's Choice
as Henry Horatio Hobson
1953
Young Bess
as King Henry VIII
Salome
as King Herod
1952
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
as Capt. William Kidd
O. Henry's Full House
as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1951
The Blue Veil
as Fred K. Begley
The Strange Door
as Sire Alain de Maletroit
1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Inspector Jules Maigret
The Art Director
as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bribe
as J.J. Bealer
1948
The Girl from Manhattan
as The Bishop
The Big Clock
as Earl Janoth
Arch of Triumph
as Ivon Haake
On Our Merry Way
as Reverend
1947
The Paradine Case
as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Leben des Galilei
as Galileo Galilei
1946
Because of Him
as John Sheridan
1945
Captain Kidd
as Captain Kidd
The Suspect
as Philip Marshall
1944
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
1943
The Man from Down Under
as Jocko Wilson
This Land Is Mine
as Albert Lory
Forever and a Day
as Bellamy
1942
Stand by for Action
as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
Tales of Manhattan
as Charles Smith
The Tuttles of Tahiti
as Jonas
1941
It Started with Eve
as Jonathan Reynolds
1940
They Knew What They Wanted
as Tony Patucci
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as The Hunchback Quasimodo
Jamaica Inn
as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
1938
St. Martin's Lane
as Charles Staggers
Vessel of Wrath
as Ginger Ted
1936
Rembrandt
as Rembrandt van Rijn
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Captaine Bligh
Les Misérables
as Inspector Emile Javert
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Marmaduke Ruggles
1934
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
1933
White Woman
as Horace H. Prin
The Private Life of Henry VIII
as Henry VIII
The Clerk
as Phineas V. Lambert
1932
Island of Lost Souls
as Dr. Moreau
The Sign of the Cross
as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
If I Had a Million
as Phineas V. Lambert
Payment Deferred
as William Marble
The Old Dark House
as Sir William Porterhouse
Devil and the Deep
as Cmdr. Charles Sturm
1931
Down River
as Captain Grossman
1930
Comets
as Himself
Wolves
as Captain Job
1929
Piccadilly
as A Continental Visitor
1928
Blue Bottles
as Burglar
Daydreams
as Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
The Tonic
as Father of the Family