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Charles Laughton

Highest Rated: 100% Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Birthday: Jul 1, 1899

Birthplace: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK

Charles Laughton became an international star in his native England before coming to America where he became one of Hollywood's most popular and respected performers. Laughton made his New York stage debut in "Payment Deferred" (1931) and soon after won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). Two years later, he delivered one of his most iconic roles, playing the cruel Captain Bligh in the excellent "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), and was brilliant as the deformed Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939). After appearing in Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn" (1939), Laughton dazzled in a variety of roles in films like "The Canterville Ghost" (1944), "Captain Kidd" (1945), "The Big Clock" (1948) and "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" (1949). He reprised Captain Kidd for "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" (1952) and King Henry VIII for "Young Bess" (1953), before making his one and only film as a director, "The Night of the Hunter" (1955), which was dismissed by critics at the time but was later deemed a masterpiece. Laughton continued to deliver great performances in films like "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957), "Spartacus" (1960) and "Advise and Consent" (1962), but a long battle with kidney cancer slowed him down and ultimately took his life. For three decades, Laughton was a gifted performer who maintained a high level of popularity matched by few character actors of any era.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 89% Ruggles of Red Gap
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100% 45% Captain Kidd
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100% 95% Witness for the Prosecution
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100% 70% If I Had a Million
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100% 83% The Big Clock
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97% 70% The Old Dark House Watchlist
96% 84% Mutiny on the Bounty
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95% 75% The Private Life of Henry VIII
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94% 87% The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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94% 87% Spartacus
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Filmography

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The Epic That Never Was 83% 1965 Tiberius Claudius (archive footage) Actor Advise and Consent 77% 88% 1962 Sen. Seabright Cooley Actor Under Ten Flags 1960 Admiral Russell Actor Spartacus 94% 87% 1960 Sempronius Gracchus Actor Witness for the Prosecution 100% 95% 1957 Sir Wilfrid Robarts Actor The Night of the Hunter 93% 90% 1955 Director, Screenwriter Hobson's Choice 91% 91% 1954 Henry Horatio Hobson Actor Salome 47% 1953 King Herod Actor Young Bess 53% 1953 King Henry VIII Actor Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd 30% 1952 Capt. William Kidd Actor O. Henry's Full House 68% 1952 Soapy Actor The Strange Door 33% 1951 Sire Alain de Maletroit Actor The Blue Veil 67% 1951 Fred K. Begley Actor The Bribe 44% 1949 J.J. Bealer Actor The Man on the Eiffel Tower 36% 1949 Inspector Jules Maigret Actor Arch of Triumph 53% 1948 Ivon Haake Actor The Big Clock 100% 83% 1948 Earl Janoth Actor The Girl From Manhattan 1948 The Bishop Actor The Paradine Case 77% 49% 1947 Judge Lord Thomas Horfield Actor Because of Him 47% 1946 John Sheridan Actor Captain Kidd 100% 45% 1945 Capt. William Kidd Actor The Canterville Ghost 86% 73% 1944 Sir Simon de Canterville/The Ghost Actor The Suspect 76% 1944 Philip Actor This Land Is Mine 71% 80% 1943 Albert Lory Actor Forever and a Day 50% 1943 Bellamy Actor
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