Charles Laughton
Gender: Male
Born: 1st July 1899
Died: 15th December 1962
Nationality: England, United Kingdom, United States of America
Movies: Arch of Triumph, Hobson's Choice, Island of Lost Souls, Jamaica Inn, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Tales of Manhattan, The Big Clock, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Old Dark House, The Paradine Case, The Private Life of Henry VIII, Witness for the Prosecution, O. Henry's Full House, The Sign of the Cross, Les Misérables, They Knew What They Wanted, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, This Land Is Mine, The Blue Veil, Young Bess, The Canterville Ghost, Rembrandt, I, Claudius, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, Salome, The Strange Door, If I Had A Million, Advise and Consent, The Bribe, It Started with Eve, Captain Kidd, Payment Deferred, Stand by for Action, The Suspect, The Man from Down Under, Sidewalks of London, Devil and the Deep, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, Piccadilly, Forever and a Day, Under Ten Flags, Down River, White Woman, Wolves, The Girl from Manhattan, Spartacus, The Tuttles of Tahiti
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.
Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of Robert Laughton, a Yorkshire hotel keeper, and his wife Eliza (née Conlon). His mother was a devout Roman Catholic and he attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school, in Lancashire. He served during World War I (in which he was gassed) first with the 2/1st Battalion of the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Regiment and later with the 7th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
He started work in the family hotel business, while participating in amateur theatricals in Scarborough. Finally allowed by his family to become a drama student at RADA in 1925, Laughton made his first professional stage appearance on 28 April 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in the comedy The Government Inspector, in which he also appeared at the London Gaiety Theatre in May. Despite not having the looks for a romantic lead, he impressed audiences with his talent and played classical roles in two plays by Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters. Laughton played the lead role of Harry Hegan in the world
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