_275003d2b178a0d09bfdaeb2530eee86.jpg "Charles Laughton")
Born...
Saturday, 01 July 1899
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK (Aged 63)
Died...
Saturday, 15 December 1962Awards
Academy Award: 1934 - Won Best Actor in a Leading Role, The Private Life of Henry VIII
Charles Laughton
CGiiiBase...
2_dde659df0a9dbf124e2ade9f22936f2b.jpg "Advise & Consent")
2_9cb9d18da8a566d52bd23650a9a3bc8d.jpg "Old Dark House (The)")
_9ce319ed7962c7e6004d712ffcd1c993.jpg "Sign of the Cross (The)")
5_9b4ec4dbf5d9a882bd017d1586580ccd.jpg "Spartacus")
Filmography...
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1962 |
Advise & Consent - Senator Seabright Cooley |
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1961 |
Checkmate (TV series) – Terror from the East… Reverend Wister |
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1960 |
Wagon Train (TV series) – The Albert Farnsworth Story… Colonel Albert Farnsworth |
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1960 |
Spartacus - Sempronius Gracchus |
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1960 |
Sotto dieci bandiere - Admiral Russell |
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1960 |
Playhouse 90 (TV series) – In the Presence of Mine Enemies… Rabbi Adam Heller |
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1959 |
On Trial (TV series) – Eleanor |
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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 |
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1959 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV movie) - Nick Bottom |
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1958 |
Studio 57 (TV series) – Stopover in Bombay… Charles Claxton |
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1957 |
Witness for the Prosecution - Sir Wilfrid |
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1956 |
Ford Star Jubilee (TV series) – The Day Lincoln Was Shot… Narrator |
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1954 |
Hobson's Choice - Henry Horatio Hobson |
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1953 |
This Is Charles Laughton (TV series) - Host |
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1953 |
Young Bess - King Henry VIII |
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1953 |
Salome - King Herod |
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1952 |
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd - Capt. William Kidd |
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1952 |
Full House - Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") |
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1951 |
The Strange Door - Sire Alain de Maletroit |
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1951 |
The Blue Veil - Fred K. Begley |
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1949 |
The Man on the Eiffel Tower - Inspector Jules Maigret |
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1949 |
The Bribe - J.J. Bealer |
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1948 |
The Girl from Manhattan - The Bishop |
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1948 |
The Big Clock - Earl Janoth |
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1948 |
Arch of Triumph - Ivon Haake |
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1948 |
On Our Merry Way - Reverend John B. Dunne (scenes deleted) |
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1947 |
The Paradine Case - Judge Lord Thomas Horfield |
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1947 |
Leben des Galilei (short) - Galileo Galilei |
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1946 |
Because of Him - John Sheridan |
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1945 |
Captain Kidd - Capt. William Kidd |
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1944 |
The Suspect - Philip Marshall |
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1944 |
The Canterville Ghost - Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost |
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1944 |
Passport to Destiny - Photo of Sergeant Major Henry Albert Muggins |
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1943 |
The Man from Down Under - Jocko Wilson |
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1943 |
This Land Is Mine - Albert Lory |
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1943 |
Forever and a Day - Bellamy - Dexter's Butler |
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1942 |
Cargo of Innocents - Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas |
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1942 |
Tales of Manhattan - Charles Smith |
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1942 |
The Tuttles of Tahiti - Jonas Tuttle |
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1941 |
It Started with Eve - Jonathan Reynolds |
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1940 |
They Knew What They Wanted - Tony Patucci |
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1939 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Quasimodo |
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1939 |
Jamaica Inn - Sir Humphrey Pengallan |
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1938 |
Sidewalks of London - Charles Staggers |
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1938 |
Vessel of Wrath - Ginger Ted' Wilson |
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1937 |
I, Claudius - Claudius |
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1936 |
Rembrandt - Rembrandt van Rijn |
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1935 |
Mutiny on the Bounty - Bligh |
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1935 |
Les Misérables - Inspector Javert |
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1935 |
Ruggles of Red Gap - Ruggles |
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1934 |
The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Edward Moulton-Barrett |
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1933 |
White Woman - Horace H. Prin |
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1933 |
The Private Life of Henry VIII. - Henry VIII |
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1932 |
Island of Lost Souls - Dr. Moreau |
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1932 |
The Sign of the Cross - Nero |
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1932 |
If I Had a Million - Phineas V. Lambert |
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1932 |
Payment Deferred - William Marble |
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1932 |
The Old Dark House - Sir William Porterhouse |
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1932 |
Devil and the Deep - Cmdr. Charles Sturm |
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1931 |
Down River - Captain Grossman |
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1930 |
Wolves (short) - Captain Job |
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1929 |
Piccadilly - A Nightclub Diner |
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1928 |
Blue Bottles (short) - Burglar |
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1928 |
The Tonic (short) - Father of the Family |
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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)