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."
What's My Line?
1950 · TV
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · TV
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · TV
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Movie
Startime
1959 · TV
Spartacus
1960 · Movie
MGM Parade
1955 · TV
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Movie
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Movie
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV
Advise & Consent
1962 · Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Movie
Jamaica Inn
1939 · Movie
The Sign of the Cross
1932 · Movie
Young Bess
1953 · Movie
Salome
1953 · Movie
Island of Lost Souls
1932 · Movie
Les Misérables
1935 · Movie
Captain Kidd
1945 · Movie
The Suspect
1945 · Movie
The Canterville Ghost
1944 · Movie
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933 · Movie
Hobson's Choice
1954 · Movie
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Movie
The Paradine Case
1947 · Movie
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Movie
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Movie
O. Henry's Full House
1952 · Movie
Arch of Triumph
1948 · Movie
Under Ten Flags
1960 · Movie
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
If I Had a Million
1932 · Movie
Tales of Manhattan
1942 · Movie
White Woman
1933 · Movie
The Old Dark House
1932 · Movie
Stand by for Action
1942 · Movie
Piccadilly
1929 · Movie
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949 · Movie
On Our Merry Way
1948 · Movie
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Movie
It Started with Eve
1941 · Movie
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009 · Movie
The Big Clock
1948 · Movie
The Bribe
1949 · Movie
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934 · Movie
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999 · Movie
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1960 · Movie
The Blue Veil
1951 · Movie
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994 · Movie
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1952 · Movie
St. Martin's Lane
1938 · Movie
The Horror Show
1979 · Movie
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Movie
They Knew What They Wanted
1940 · Movie
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014 · Movie
The Girl from Manhattan
1948 · Movie
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982 · Movie
Payment Deferred
1932 · Movie
The Tonic
1928 · Movie
The Art Director
1949 · Movie
The Man from Down Under
1943 · Movie
The Epic That Never Was
1969 · Movie
Forever and a Day
1943 · Movie
Rembrandt
1936 · Movie
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Movie
The Strange Door
1951 · Movie
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · Movie
Devil and the Deep
1932 · Movie
Because of Him
1946 · Movie
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · Movie
Vessel of Wrath
1938 · Movie
Comets
1930 · Movie
The Clerk
1933 · Movie
Blue Bottles
1928 · Movie
Down River
1931 · Movie
Daydreams
1928 · Movie
Leben des Galilei
1947 · Movie
Wolves
1930 · Movie
I, Claudius
1937 · Movie
