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(84)
Self
1948
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1950
Self - Guest
1956
Self
1956
Self
1957
Self
1954
Self
1954
Self
1950
Sempronius Gracchus
1960
Galileo (voice)
2019
1959
Edwin Kensington
1953
Henry Denry
1953
M. Hamel
1953
Sir Wilfrid
1957
Inspector Emile Javert
1935
The Hunchback Quasimodo
1939
Henry VIII
1933
Captaine Bligh
1935
Rembrandt van Rijn
1936
Charles Staggers
1938
Captain Kidd
1945
Henry Horatio Hobson
1954
King Herod
1953
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
1939
Earl Janoth
1948
Sir William Porterhouse
1932
Inspector Jules Maigret
1949
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
1982
Dr. Moreau
1932
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
1952
Self (archive footage)
2014
Capt. William Kidd
1952
Ivon Haake
1948
Bellamy
1943
Reverend
1948
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
1947
Albert Lory
1943
King Henry VIII
1953
Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
1944
Marmaduke Ruggles
1935
A Continental Visitor
1929
Charles Smith
1942
Philip Marshall
1945
J.J. Bealer
1949
Phineas V. Lambert
1932
Admiral Russell
1960
Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
1932
Cmdr. Charles Sturm
1932
actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Senator Seabright Cooley
1962
Burglar
1928
Self (archive footage)
1982
Edward Moulton-Barrett
1934
Self (archive footage)
1994
Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
1942
Sire Alain de Maletroit
1951
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Fred K. Begley
1951
Horace H. Prin
1933
Self (archive footage)
1999
Jonas
1942
Self (archive footage)
1972
Jonathan Reynolds
1941
Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949
(archive footage)
1979
Galileo Galilei
1947
John Sheridan
1946
Self (archive footage)
2009
Ginger Ted
1938
William Marble
1932
The Bishop
1948
Self
1940
Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
1928
Jocko Wilson
1943
Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
1969
Tony Patucci
1940
Father of the Family
1928
Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
2014
Captain Job
1930
Captain Grossman
1931
Phineas V. Lambert
1933
Himself
1930
