Biography: life and films
Charles Laughton was an English actor. He was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England on 1st July 1899 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on 15th December 1962, aged 63.His best films as an actor include Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Jean Renoir's This Land Is Mine (1943), Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), David Lean's Hobson's Choice (1954) and Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and whose best work as a film director include The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) and The Night of the Hunter (1955).
Charles Laughton appeared in 53 films, scripted 3 films and directed 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Robert Z. Leonard (3 films), William Dieterle (2), Alfred Hitchcock (2) and Alexander Korda (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (33 films), comedy (9), history (8), romance (7), Thriller (7), comedy-drama (6), comedy-romance (5), War (5), Horror (4), Biography (3) and crime-thriller (2).
Our average rating for Charles Laughton over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Piccadilly (1929) [a]
Comets (1930) [a]
Down River (1931) [a]
Devil and the Deep (1932) [a]
If I Had a Million (1932) [a]
Island of Lost Souls (1932) [a]
Payment Deferred (1932) [a]
The Sign of the Cross (1932) [a]
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) [a]
White Woman (1933) [a]
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) [a]
Les Misérables (1935) [a]
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) [a]
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) [a]
Rembrandt (1936) [a]
I, Claudius (1937) [a]
Sidewalks of London (1938) [a,w]
Vessel of Wrath (1938) [a]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) [a]
They Knew What They Wanted (1940) [a]
It Started with Eve (1941) [a]
Stand by for Action (1942) [a]
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942) [a]
The Man from Down Under (1943) [a]
Passport to Destiny (1944) [a]
The Canterville Ghost (1944) [a]
The Suspect (1944) [a]
Captain Kidd (1945) [a]
Because of Him (1946) [a]
The Girl from Manhattan (1948) [a]
The Bribe (1949) [a]
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) [a,d]
The Blue Veil (1951) [a]
The Strange Door (1951) [a]
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) [a]
O. Henry's Full House (1952) [a]
Salome (1953) [a]
Young Bess (1953) [a]
The Night of the Hunter (1955) [d,w]
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) [a]
Sotto dieci bandiere (1960) [a]
Spartacus (1960) [a]
Galileo (1975) [w]
That's Action (1977) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The very best sci-fi movies
The Golden Age of French cinema
