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Charles Laughton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

30/06/1899

Day of Death

15/12/1962
(63) years old

Place of Birth

Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Charles Laughton

Biography

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 fut... Read More

Known For

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Filmography

Cast

2014

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard...

as Self (archive footage)

2014

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the H...

as Dr. Moreau (archive footage)

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

1999

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga ...

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 foo...

1988

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

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

The Epic That Never Was

as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)

1962

Advise & Consent

as Senator Seabright Cooley

1960

Spartacus

as Sempronius Gracchus

1960

Under Ten Flags

as Admiral Russell

1960

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

as Rabbi Adam Heller

1957

Witness for the Prosecution

as Sir Wilfrid

1954

Hobson's Choice

as Henry Horatio Hobson

1953

Young Bess

as King Henry VIII

1953

Salome

as King Herod

1952

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

as Capt. William Kidd

1952

O. Henry's Full House

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

1951

The Strange Door

as Sire Alain de Maletroit

1951

The Blue Veil

as Fred K. Begley

1949

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector Jules Maigret

1949

The Art Director

as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive foo...

1949

The Bribe

as J.J. Bealer

1948

The Girl from Manhattan

as The Bishop

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

Forever and a Day

as Bellamy

1942

Stand by for Action

as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

1942

Tales of Manhattan

as Charles Smith

1942

The Tuttles of Tahiti

as Jonas

1941

It Started with Eve

as Jonathan Reynolds

1940

They Knew What They Wanted

as Tony Patucci

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

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 Private Life of Henry VIII

as Henry VIII

1933

The Clerk

as Phineas V. Lambert

1932

The Sign of the Cross

as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar

1932

Island of Lost Souls

as Dr. Moreau

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 Seq...

1928

The Tonic

as Father of the Family

Crew

1964

The Life of Galileo

as Translator

1955

The Night of the Hunter

as Screenplay

1955

The Night of the Hunter

as Director

1947

Leben des Galilei

as Writer

1939

Jamaica Inn

as Producer

1938

St. Martin's Lane

as Producer

1938

St. Martin's Lane

as Additional Writing

1938

Vessel of Wrath

as Producer