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Portly, versatile English stage and screen actor who made his New York theater debut in 1931's "Payment Deferred" and began a successful Hollywood career the following year. The gifted Laughton became one of the most popular actors of the 1930s and 40s, giving some of his greatest performances playing everything from self-indulgent monarchs ("The Private Life of Henry VIII" 1933) to selfless butlers ("Ruggles of Red Gap" 1935) to modest murderers ("The Suspect" 1945) to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939)....
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Filmography

Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor - ( Himself / 1988 / Released / )
Advise and Consent - ( Senator Seabright Cooley / 1962 / Released / )
Sotto dieci bandiere - ( Admiral Russell / 1960 / Released / )
Spartacus - ( Gracchus / 1960 / Released / )
Witness For the Prosecution - ( Sir Wilfrid Robarts / 1957 / Released / )
The Night of the Hunter - ( Director / 1955 / Released / )
Hobson's Choice - ( Henry Horatio Hobson / 1954 / Released / British Lion Productions )
Galileo - ( Translator(- from translation) / 1953 / Released / American Film Theatre )
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd - ( Captain Kidd / 1952 / Released / )
O. Henry's Full House - ( / 1952 / Released / )
The Strange Door - ( / 1951 / Released / )
The Paradine Case - ( / 1947 / Released / )
The Canterville Ghost - ( / 1944 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - ( Quasimodo / 1939 / Released / )
Les Miserables - ( / 1935 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Mutiny on the Bounty - ( Captain Bligh / 1935 / Released / )
Island of Lost Souls - ( / 1933 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
The Old Dark House - ( Sir William Porterhouse / 1932 / Released / Universal )
Piccadilly - ( / 1929 / Released / )
Day-Dreams - ( / / Released / )

TV Credits
Al Pacino: Inside Out ( 2001 / Released ): Actor

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Portly, versatile English stage and screen actor who made his New York theater debut in 1931's "Payment Deferred" and began a successful Hollywood career the following year. The gifted Laughton became one of the most popular actors of the 1930s and 40s, giving some of his greatest performances playing everything from self-indulgent monarchs ("The Private Life of Henry VIII" 1933) to selfless butlers ("Ruggles of Red Gap" 1935) to modest murderers ("The Suspect" 1945) to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939). He sometimes displayed a propensity for eye-rolling ham in the later stages of his career, but it was frequently of a delicious variety, and he was always a compelling performer. Late in life he gave two superb performances in "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) and "Advise and Consent" (1962). His single directorial effort was 1955's "Night of the Hunter"; it has become a critical and cult favorite thanks to Laughton's intriguing combination of expressionism and realism, a fine script co-written by James Agee and compelling performances by an excellent cast headed by Robert Mitchum as a psychotic preacher and Lillian Gish as a resolute farm woman.

Profession(s):
Actor, hotel clerk
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
wife:Elsa Lanchester (co-starred together, married in 1929)
Companion(s)
Christopher Isherwood , Companion , ```..had relationship in the 1940s


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Education
Stonyhurst College Clitheroe, Lancashire, England
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London, England
Awards (Back to top)

Grammy Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording "The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton" 1962
National Board of Review Award Best Acting "The Beachcomber" 1938
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actor "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Ruggles of Red Gap" 1935
Oscar Best Actor "The Private Life of Henry VIII" 1932 - 1933

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1962 Last film, "Advise and Consent", directed by Otto Preminger
1955 Directed one film, "The Night of the Hunter"
1932 Became established as a Hollywood star with roles in the films "Payment Deferred", "The Old Dark House", "The Devil and the Deep" and "The Sign of the Cross"
1931 Made New York stage debut in "Payment Deferred"

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