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Charles Laughton (1899 - 1962) تشارلز لوتون

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English stage and film actor, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, on July 1, 1899. He attended the Jesuit school, Stonyhurst College, and participated in the First World War. Thereafter, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925. He excelled in his...Read more theatrical performances, and collaborated in the 1940s with the writer Playwright Brecht in the play The Life of Galileo. He turned to work in film, where his notable work included The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), receiving Academy Award nominations for both. His last film was Advice and Consent (1962). The film Night of the Hunter was the only film he directed. Laughton married actress Elsa Lanchester, who appeared with him in several films, including Rembrandt (1936), and they obtained American citizenship in 1950. He died on December 15, 1962, in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

- Nationality:
- US
- Date of Birth:
- 1 July 1899
- Died on:
- 15 December 1962

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Filmography

Actor (10)
- - - Spartacus
    - 1960 - Movie
- - - Witness for the Prosecution
    - 1957 - Movie
- - - Young Bess
    - 1953 - Movie
- - - Salome
    - 1953 - Movie
- - - O. Henry's Full House
    - 1952 - Movie
- - - The Bribe
    - 1949 - Movie
- - - Because of Him
    - 1946 - Movie
- - - It Started with Eve
    - 1941 - Movie
- - - Mutiny on the Bounty
    - 1935 - Movie
- - - If I Had a Million
    - 1932 - Movie
Director (1)
- - - The Night of the Hunter
    - 1955 - Movie
    - (Director)

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English stage and film actor, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, on July 1, 1899. He attended the Jesuit school, Stonyhurst College, and participated in the First World...Read more War. Thereafter, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925. He excelled in his theatrical performances, and collaborated in the 1940s with the writer Playwright Brecht in the play The Life of Galileo. He turned to work in film, where his notable work included The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), receiving Academy Award nominations for both. His last film was Advice and Consent (1962). The film Night of the Hunter was the only film he directed. Laughton married actress Elsa Lanchester, who appeared with him in several films, including Rembrandt (1936), and they obtained American citizenship in 1950. He died on December 15, 1962, in Hollywood, Los Angeles.