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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

Spartacus

1960
as Sempronius Gracchus

Hollywood Greats: Charles Laughton

1978
as Self / Various Characters (archive footage)

Under Ten Flags

1960
as Admiral Russell

The Girl from Manhattan

1948
as The Bishop

The Bribe

1949
as J.J. Bealer

Witness for the Prosecution

1957
as Sir Wilfrid Robarts

Because of Him

1946
as John Sheridan

Vessel of Wrath

1938
as Ginger Ted

Salome

1953
as King Herod

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939
as The Hunchback Quasimodo

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Himself (archive footage)

The Blue Veil

1951
as Fred K. Begley

Captain Kidd

1945
as Captain Kidd

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933
as King Henry VIII

The Sign of the Cross

1932
as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar

The Epic That Never Was

1967
as Claudius

White Woman

1933
as Horace H. Prin

They Knew What They Wanted

1940
as Tony Patucci

Stand by for Action

1942
as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas

Hobson's Choice

1954
as Henry Horatio Hobson

Devil and the Deep

1932
as Cmdr. Charles Sturm

The Big Clock

1948
as Earl Janoth

Advise & Consent

1962
as Senator Seabright Cooley

Forever and a Day

1943
as Bellamy - Dexter's Butler

If I Had a Million

1932
as Phineas V. Lambert

Blue Bottles

1928
as Burglar

Tales of Manhattan

1942
as Charles Smith

Ruggles of Red Gap

1935
as Marmaduke Ruggles

Payment Deferred

1932
as William Marble

Rembrandt

1936
as Rembrandt

The Suspect

1944
as Philip Marshall

The Tonic

1928
as Father of the Family

It Started with Eve

1941
as Jonathan Reynolds

The Clerk

1933
as Phineas V. Lambert

Jamaica Inn

1939
as Sir Humphrey Pengallan

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of The Wolf Man

1999
as (archive footage)

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

1952
as Capt. William Kidd

The Strange Door

1951
as Sire Alain de Maletroit

The Canterville Ghost

1944
as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost

The Man from Down Under

1943
as Jocko Wilson

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

1949
as Inspector Jules Maigret

Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'

2002
as Charles Laughton

Island of Lost Souls

1932
as Dr. Moreau

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Les Misérables

1935
as Inspector Emile Javert

This Land Is Mine

1943
as Albert Lory

The Paradine Case

1947
as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

Young Bess

1953
as King Henry VIII

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940
as Charles Laughton

The Old Dark House

1932
as Sir William 'Bill' Porterhouse

Arch of Triumph

1948
as Ivon Haake

Leben des Galilei

1947
as Galileo Galilei

O. Henry's Full House

1952
as The Cop and the Anthem: Soapy

Mutiny on the Bounty

1935
as Captain Bligh

St. Martin's Lane

1938
as Charles Staggers

The Tuttles of Tahiti

1942
as Jonas

Director

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

Writer

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

Producer

Movie Vessel of Wrath 1938
Movie Jamaica Inn 1939

Guest Star

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