
Charles Laughton
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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 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...
Known For
Filmography

Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
2028
as Self (archive footage)

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
as Self (archive footage)

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
as Dr. Moreau (archive footage)

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton Directs "The Night of The Hunter"
2002
as Self (archive footage)

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
as Self (archive footage)

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994
as Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
as Self (archive footage)

The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)

The Epic That Never Was
1969
as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)

Advise & Consent
1962
as Senator Seabright Cooley

Spartacus
1960
as Sempronius Gracchus

Under Ten Flags
1960
as Admiral Russell

In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1960
as Rabbi Adam Heller

Startime
1959
as Self – Co-Host

Witness for the Prosecution
1957
as Sir Wilfrid
The Lux Show
1957
as Self

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self

The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest

MGM Parade
1955
as Self

Hobson's Choice
1954
as Henry Horatio Hobson
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
as Self
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self

Salome
1953
as King Herod

Young Bess
1953
as King Henry VIII

General Electric Theater
1953
as Edwin Kensington

General Electric Theater
1953
as Henry Denry

General Electric Theater
1953
as M. Hamel

O. Henry's Full House
1952
as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1952
as Capt. William Kidd

The Strange Door
1951
as Sire Alain de Maletroit

The Blue Veil
1951
as Fred K. Begley

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self

What's My Line?
1950
as Self

The Bribe
1949
as J.J. Bealer

The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949
as Inspector Jules Maigret

The Art Director
1949
as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Arch of Triumph
1948
as Ivon Haake

The Big Clock
1948
as Earl Janoth

The Girl from Manhattan
1948
as The Bishop

On Our Merry Way
1948
as Reverend

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

The Paradine Case
1947
as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

Leben des Galilei
1947
as Galileo Galilei

Because of Him
1946
as John Sheridan

The Suspect
1945
as Philip Marshall

Captain Kidd
1945
as Captain Kidd

The Canterville Ghost
1944
as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost

Forever and a Day
1943
as Bellamy

This Land Is Mine
1943
as Albert Lory

The Man from Down Under
1943
as Jocko Wilson

Tales of Manhattan
1942
as Charles Smith

Stand by for Action
1942
as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
as Jonas

It Started with Eve
1941
as Jonathan Reynolds

They Knew What They Wanted
1940
as Tony Patucci

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
as The Hunchback Quasimodo

Jamaica Inn
1939
as Sir Humphrey Pengallan

St. Martin's Lane
1938
as Charles Staggers

Vessel of Wrath
1938
as Ginger Ted

I, Claudius
1937
as Claudius

Rembrandt
1936
as Rembrandt van Rijn

Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
as Captaine Bligh

Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
as Marmaduke Ruggles

Les Misérables
1935
as Inspector Emile Javert

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
as Henry VIII

White Woman
1933
as Horace H. Prin

The Clerk
1933
as Phineas V. Lambert

Island of Lost Souls
1932
as Dr. Moreau

The Old Dark House
1932
as Sir William Porterhouse

Payment Deferred
1932
as William Marble

The Sign of the Cross
1932
as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar

Devil and the Deep
1932
as Cmdr. Charles Sturm

If I Had a Million
1932
as Phineas V. Lambert

Down River
1931
as Captain Grossman

Wolves
1930
as Captain Job

Comets
1930
as Himself

Piccadilly
1929
as A Continental Visitor

Blue Bottles
1928
as Burglar

Daydreams
1928
as Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence

The Tonic
1928
as Father of the Family