Charles Laughton - biography

“All the tough talk is a blind.  [Robert Mitchum is] a literate, gracious, kind man and he speaks beautifully - when he wants to.  Bob would make the best Macbeth of any actor living.”

“Method actors give you a photograph.  Real actors give you an oil painting.”

“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”

“They can’t censor the gleam in my eye.”

Charles Laughton has appeared in the following films:
The Tonic (1928)
Blue Bottles (1928)
Daydreams (1928)
Piccadilly (1929)
Wolves (1930)
Down River (1931)
Devil and the Deep (1932)
The Old Dark House (1932)
Payment Deferred (1932)
If I Had a Million (1932)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
White Woman (1933)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Rembrandt (1936)
I, Claudius (1937)
Vessel of Wrath (1938)
Sidewalks of London (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Stand by for Action (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
The Man from Down Under (1943)
Passport to Destiny (1944)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
The Suspect (1944)
Captain Kidd (1945)
Because of Him (1946)
Leben des Galilei (1947)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
The Bribe (1949)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
The Blue Veil (1951)
The Strange Door (1951)
O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Salome (1953)
Young Bess (1953)
Hobson’s Choice (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Sotto dieci bandiere (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Advise and Consent (1962)


Charles Laughton directed the following films:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)


Charles Laughton contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Sidewalks of London (1938)
Leben des Galilei (1947)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)