Charles Laughton

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1899-06-30

Deathday 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, 查尔斯·劳顿

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. 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."

Known For

Actor

2019
Brecht

as Galileo (voice)

2014
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

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)

1982
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
1962
Advise & Consent

as Senator Seabright Cooley

1960
Spartacus

as Sempronius Gracchus

1960
Under Ten Flags

as Admiral Russell

1957
1957
The Lux Show

as Self

1956
The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Guest

1954
Hobson's Choice

as Henry Horatio Hobson

1953
Young Bess

as King Henry VIII

1953
Salome

as King Herod

1953
General Electric Theater

as Edwin Kensington

1953
1953
1952
1952
O. Henry's Full House

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

1951
The Blue Veil

as Fred K. Begley

1951
The Strange Door

as Sire Alain de Maletroit

1950
Star Time

as Self

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector Jules Maigret

1949
The Art Director

as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1949
The Bribe

as J.J. Bealer

1948
1948
The Big Clock

as Earl Janoth

1948
Arch of Triumph

as Ivon Haake

1948
On Our Merry Way

as Reverend

1947
The Paradine Case

as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

1947
Leben des Galilei

as Galileo Galilei

1946
Because of Him

as John Sheridan

1945
Captain Kidd

as Captain Kidd

1945
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

1943
This Land Is Mine

as Albert Lory

1943
1942
Stand by for Action

as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

1942
Tales of Manhattan

as Charles Smith

1941
It Started with Eve

as Jonathan Reynolds

1940
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as The Hunchback Quasimodo

1939
Jamaica Inn

as Sir Humphrey Pengallan

1938
St. Martin's Lane

as Charles Staggers

1938
Vessel of Wrath

as Ginger Ted

1936
Rembrandt

as Rembrandt van Rijn

1935
Mutiny on the Bounty

as Captaine Bligh

1935
Les Misérables

as Inspector Emile Javert

1935
Ruggles of Red Gap

as Marmaduke Ruggles

1934
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1933
White Woman

as Horace H. Prin

1933
The Clerk

as Phineas V. Lambert

1932
Island of Lost Souls

as Dr. Moreau

1932
The Sign of the Cross

as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar

1932
If I Had a Million

as Phineas V. Lambert

1932
Payment Deferred

as William Marble

1932
The Old Dark House

as Sir William Porterhouse

1932
Devil and the Deep

as Cmdr. Charles Sturm

1931
Down River

as Captain Grossman

1930
Comets

as Himself

1930
Wolves

as Captain Job

1929
Piccadilly

as A Continental Visitor

1928
Blue Bottles

as Burglar

1928
Daydreams

as Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence

1928
The Tonic

as Father of the Family

Producer

1939
Jamaica Inn

as Producer

1938
St. Martin's Lane

as Producer

1938
Vessel of Wrath

as Producer

Writer

1955
1947

Crew

1964
The Life of Galileo

as Translator

1938
St. Martin's Lane

as Additional Writing

Director

1955