
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."

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

スパルタカス

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Forever and a Day

Hobson's Choice

戦艦バウンティ号の叛乱

ノートルダムの傴僂男

The Big Clock

St. Martin's Lane

It Started with Eve

This Land Is Mine

Advise & Consent

噫無情

人生は四十二から

The Tonic

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

What's My Line?

Island of Lost Souls

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

O. Henry's Full House

The Canterville Ghost

Rembrandt

Stand by for Action

The Colgate Comedy Hour

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

The Suspect

魔の家

Vessel of Wrath

The Epic That Never Was

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

スティーブ・マーティンの四つ数えろ

If I Had a Million

The Blue Veil

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Man from Down Under

Blue Bottles

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Piccadilly

General Electric Theater

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Tales of Manhattan

パラダイン夫人の恋

The Bribe

Captain Kidd

Because of Him

巌窟の野獣

The Strange Door

The Sign of the Cross

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

The Art Director

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Startime

凸凹海賊船

Arch of Triumph

They Knew What They Wanted

Young Bess

White Woman

Salome

Payment Deferred

The Steve Allen Show

On Our Merry Way

The Tuttles of Tahiti

Sotto dieci bandiere

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

The Girl from Manhattan

The Clerk

Devil and the Deep

The Horror Show

Daydreams

Comets

Wolves

Down River

Leben des Galilei

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

MGM Parade