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
as Galileo (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Claudius
as Senator Seabright Cooley
as Sempronius Gracchus
as Admiral Russell
as Sir Wilfrid
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Henry Horatio Hobson
as Self
as King Henry VIII
as King Herod
as Edwin Kensington
as Henry Denry
as M. Hamel
as Capt. William Kidd
as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
as Fred K. Begley
as Sire Alain de Maletroit
as Self
as Self
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Inspector Jules Maigret
as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as J.J. Bealer
as The Bishop
as Earl Janoth
as Ivon Haake
as Reverend
as Self
as Self - Guest Host
as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
as Galileo Galilei
as John Sheridan
as Captain Kidd
as Philip Marshall
as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
as Jocko Wilson
as Albert Lory
as Bellamy
as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
as Charles Smith
as Jonas
as Jonathan Reynolds
as Tony Patucci
as Self
as The Hunchback Quasimodo
as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
as Charles Staggers
as Ginger Ted
as Rembrandt van Rijn
as Captaine Bligh
as Inspector Emile Javert
as Marmaduke Ruggles
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
as Horace H. Prin
as Henry VIII
as Phineas V. Lambert
as Dr. Moreau
as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
as Phineas V. Lambert
as William Marble
as Sir William Porterhouse
as Cmdr. Charles Sturm
as Captain Grossman
as Himself
as Captain Job
as A Continental Visitor
as Burglar
as Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
as Father of the Family
Producer
Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
Crew
as Translator
as Additional Writing
Director
as Director