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Charles Laughton

English actor and director Charles Laughton played a wide variety of characters both villainous and virtuous. Among his biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Big Clock, and Witness for the Prosecution.

English
Filmography

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

1952
as Capt. William Kidd

Advise & Consent

1962
as Senator Seabright Cooley

Arch of Triumph

1948
as Ivon Haake

Because of Him

1946
as John Sheridan

Blue Bottles

1928
as Burglar

Captain Kidd

1945
as Captain Kidd

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940
as Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'

2002
as Charles Laughton

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982
as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Devil and the Deep

1932
as Cmdr. Charles Sturm

Forever and a Day

1943
as Bellamy - Dexter's Butler

Hobson's Choice

1954
as Henry Horatio Hobson

Hollywood Greats: Charles Laughton

1978
as Self / Various Characters (archive footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Himself (archive footage)

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

If I Had a Million

1932
as Phineas V. Lambert

Island of Lost Souls

1932
as Dr. Moreau

It Started with Eve

1941
as Jonathan Reynolds

Jamaica Inn

1939
as Sir Humphrey Pengallan

Leben des Galilei

1947
as Galileo Galilei

Les Misérables

1935
as Inspector Emile Javert

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of The Wolf Man

1999
as (archive footage)

Mutiny on the Bounty

1935
as Captain Bligh

O. Henry's Full House

1952
as The Cop and the Anthem: Soapy

Payment Deferred

1932
as William Marble

Rembrandt

1936
as Rembrandt

Ruggles of Red Gap

1935
as Marmaduke Ruggles

Salome

1953
as King Herod

Spartacus

1960
as Sempronius Gracchus

St. Martin's Lane

1938
as Charles Staggers

Stand by for Action

1942
as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

Tales of Manhattan

1942
as Charles Smith

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

The Big Clock

1948
as Earl Janoth

The Blue Veil

1951
as Fred K. Begley

The Bribe

1949
as J.J. Bealer

The Canterville Ghost

1944
as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost

The Clerk

1933
as Phineas V. Lambert

The Epic That Never Was

1967
as Claudius

The Girl from Manhattan

1948
as The Bishop

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939
as The Hunchback Quasimodo

The Man from Down Under

1943
as Jocko Wilson

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

1949
as Inspector Jules Maigret

The Old Dark House

1932
as Sir William 'Bill' Porterhouse

The Paradine Case

1947
as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933
as King Henry VIII

The Sign of the Cross

1932
as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar

The Strange Door

1951
as Sire Alain de Maletroit

The Suspect

1944
as Philip Marshall

The Tonic

1928
as Father of the Family

The Tuttles of Tahiti

1942
as Jonas

They Knew What They Wanted

1940
as Tony Patucci

This Land Is Mine

1943
as Albert Lory

Under Ten Flags

1960
as Admiral Russell

Vessel of Wrath

1938
as Ginger Ted

White Woman

1933
as Horace H. Prin

Witness for the Prosecution

1957
as Sir Wilfrid Robarts

Young Bess

1953
as King Henry VIII

Director

Movie The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1949
Movie The Night of the Hunter 1955

Writer

Movie Leben des Galilei 1947
Movie St. Martin's Lane 1938
Movie The Night of the Hunter 1955

Producer

Movie Jamaica Inn 1939
Movie Vessel of Wrath 1938

Guest Star

Episode The Colgate Comedy Hour
Abbott & Costello 		1952
Episode The Ed Wynn Show
Charles Laughton/Beverly Tyler 		1950
Episode Checkmate
Terror from the East 		1961
Episode Wagon Train
The Albert Farnsworth Story 		1960