Charles Laughton
Acting
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."
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Self (archive footage)
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Epic That Never Was
Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
Advise & Consent
Senator Seabright Cooley
Spartacus
Sempronius Gracchus
Under Ten Flags
Admiral Russell
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Rabbi Adam Heller
Witness for the Prosecution
Sir Wilfrid
Hobson's Choice
Henry Horatio Hobson
Young Bess
King Henry VIII
Salome
King Herod
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Capt. William Kidd
O. Henry's Full House
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
The Strange Door
Sire Alain de Maletroit
The Blue Veil
Fred K. Begley
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Inspector Jules Maigret
The Art Director
Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bribe
J.J. Bealer
The Girl from Manhattan
The Bishop
The Big Clock
Earl Janoth
Arch of Triumph
Ivon Haake
On Our Merry Way
Reverend
The Paradine Case
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Leben des Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Because of Him
John Sheridan
Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd
The Suspect
Philip Marshall
The Canterville Ghost
Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
The Man from Down Under
Jocko Wilson
This Land Is Mine
Albert Lory
Forever and a Day
Bellamy
Stand by for Action
Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
Tales of Manhattan
Charles Smith
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Jonas
It Started with Eve
Jonathan Reynolds
They Knew What They Wanted
Tony Patucci
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback Quasimodo
Jamaica Inn
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
St. Martin's Lane
Charles Staggers
Vessel of Wrath
Ginger Ted
I, Claudius
Claudius
Rembrandt
Rembrandt van Rijn
Mutiny on the Bounty
Captaine Bligh
Les Misérables
Inspector Emile Javert
Ruggles of Red Gap
Marmaduke Ruggles
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Edward Moulton-Barrett
White Woman
Horace H. Prin
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Henry VIII
The Clerk
Phineas V. Lambert
The Sign of the Cross
Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
Island of Lost Souls
Dr. Moreau
If I Had a Million
Phineas V. Lambert
Payment Deferred
William Marble
The Old Dark House
Sir William Porterhouse
Devil and the Deep
Cmdr. Charles Sturm
Down River
Captain Grossman
Comets
Himself
Wolves
Captain Job
Piccadilly
A Continental Visitor
Blue Bottles
Burglar
The Tonic
Father of the Family
Daydreams
Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence