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  • Stress Positions
  • Fisherman's Daughter (The)
  • Monster of Many Noses (The)
  • Shadow of the Sun (The)
  • Lessons of Tolerance
  • Naked Ambition
  • Faceless After Dark
  • Abang Adik
  • Barber
  • Klimakteriet
  • Extremely Unique Dynamic
  • Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
  • Lady Like
  • León
  • I Wish You All the Best
  • I Don't Know Who You Are
  • Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
  • 5 nanomoles - the Olympic dream of a trans woman
  • Live Like There is Tomorrow
  • Elda and the Monsters
  • Road House
  • Wakhri (One of a Kind)
  • Critical Zone
  • Doppelgängers³
  • Frida
  • Sing Sing
  • Janey
  • Palm Royale
  • Betânia
  • Avant-Drag!
  • Love Alone Can't Make a Child
  • Broken Hearts Trip
  • Vestidas de azul
  • Young Hearts
  • Teaches of Peaches
  • You Promised Me the Sea
  • Reas
  • Malu
  • Lesvia
  • King Baby

Charles Laughton

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Advise & Consent Old Dark House (The) Sign of the Cross (The) Spartacus

Filmography...

1962

Advise & Consent - Senator Seabright Cooley

1961

Checkmate (TV series) – Terror from the East… Reverend Wister

1960

Wagon Train (TV series) – The Albert Farnsworth Story… Colonel Albert Farnsworth

1960

Spartacus - Sempronius Gracchus

1960

Sotto dieci bandiere - Admiral Russell

1960

Playhouse 90 (TV series) – In the Presence of Mine Enemies… Rabbi Adam Heller

1959

On Trial (TV series) – Eleanor

1957

General Electric Theater (TV series) – The Last Lesson (1959)… M. Hamel – A New York Knight (1958)… Henry Denry – Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour (1957)… Edwin Kensington

1959

A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV movie) - Nick Bottom

1958

Studio 57 (TV series) – Stopover in Bombay… Charles Claxton

1957

Witness for the Prosecution - Sir Wilfrid

1956

Ford Star Jubilee (TV series) – The Day Lincoln Was Shot… Narrator

1954

Hobson's Choice - Henry Horatio Hobson

1953

This Is Charles Laughton (TV series) - Host

1953

Young Bess - King Henry VIII

1953

Salome - King Herod

1952

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd - Capt. William Kidd

1952

Full House - Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

1951

The Strange Door - Sire Alain de Maletroit

1951

The Blue Veil - Fred K. Begley

1949

The Man on the Eiffel Tower - Inspector Jules Maigret

1949

The Bribe - J.J. Bealer

1948

The Girl from Manhattan - The Bishop

1948

The Big Clock - Earl Janoth

1948

Arch of Triumph - Ivon Haake

1948

On Our Merry Way - Reverend John B. Dunne (scenes deleted)

1947

The Paradine Case - Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

1947

Leben des Galilei (short) - Galileo Galilei

1946

Because of Him - John Sheridan

1945

Captain Kidd - Capt. William Kidd

1944

The Suspect - Philip Marshall

1944

The Canterville Ghost - Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost

1944

Passport to Destiny - Photo of Sergeant Major Henry Albert Muggins

1943

The Man from Down Under - Jocko Wilson

1943

This Land Is Mine - Albert Lory

1943

Forever and a Day - Bellamy - Dexter's Butler

1942

Cargo of Innocents - Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

1942

Tales of Manhattan - Charles Smith

1942

The Tuttles of Tahiti - Jonas Tuttle

1941

It Started with Eve - Jonathan Reynolds

1940

They Knew What They Wanted - Tony Patucci

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Quasimodo

1939

Jamaica Inn - Sir Humphrey Pengallan

1938

Sidewalks of London - Charles Staggers

1938

Vessel of Wrath - Ginger Ted' Wilson

1937

I, Claudius - Claudius

1936

Rembrandt - Rembrandt van Rijn

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty - Bligh

1935

Les Misérables - Inspector Javert

1935

Ruggles of Red Gap - Ruggles

1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Edward Moulton-Barrett

1933

White Woman - Horace H. Prin

1933

The Private Life of Henry VIII. - Henry VIII

1932

Island of Lost Souls - Dr. Moreau

1932

The Sign of the Cross - Nero

1932

If I Had a Million - Phineas V. Lambert

1932

Payment Deferred - William Marble

1932

The Old Dark House - Sir William Porterhouse

1932

Devil and the Deep - Cmdr. Charles Sturm

1931

Down River - Captain Grossman

1930

Wolves (short) - Captain Job

1929

Piccadilly - A Nightclub Diner

1928

Blue Bottles (short) - Burglar

1928

The Tonic (short) - Father of the Family

1928

Daydreams (short) - Lecherous Boarder/Ram Das in Dream Sequence

Biographies about...

  • Brown, William (1970). Charles Laughton A Pictorial Treasury of his Films. New York: Falcon Enterprises.
  • Callow, Simon (1988). Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1047-9.
  • Crowe, Cameron (2001). Conversations With Wilder. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-375-70967-3.
  • Higham, Charles (1976). Charles Laughton: An Intimate Biography. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-09403-5.
  • Jones, Preston Neal (2004). Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of The Night of the Hunter. New York: Limelight Editions. ISBN 0-87910-974-2.
  • Lanchester, Elsa (1938). Charles Laughton and I. London: Faber and Faber. p. 271.
  • Lanchester, Elsa (1983). Elsa Lanchester Herself. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2309-3.
  • Lyon, James K. (1980). Bertolt Brecht in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-19-502639-X.
  • O'Hara, Maureen (2005). 'Tis Herself. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-4693-4.
  • Parker, John (ed), (1947). Who's Who in the Theatre 10th revised edition. London. pp. 892–3..
  • Singer, Kurt (1954). The Charles Laughton Story. London: John C. Winston Company.
  • Tell Me a Story (1957) and The Fabulous Country (1962). Two literary anthologies selected by Charles Laughton. They contain pieces which were presented by him in his reading tours across America, with written introductions which give some insight about Laughton's thoughts. This selection presents texts from the Bible, Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, and James Thurber to name just a few.
  • Diverse authors, articles in The Stonyhurst magazine: Charles Laughton at Stonyhurst by David Knight (Volume LIV, No. 501, 2005), Charles Laughton. A Talent in Bloom (1899–1931), by Gloria Porta (Volume LIV, No. 502, 2006)