Where to watch Charles Laughton in the UK
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Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making an impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Broadway and then Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on notable British fi…
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- What's My Line? (1950) as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Steve Allen Show (1956) as Self - Guest
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- MGM Parade (1955) as Self
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) as Self
- Startime (1959) as Self – Co-Host
- Spartacus (1960) as Sempronius Gracchus
- The George Gobel Show (1954) as Self
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) as Sir Wilfrid
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as The Hunchback Quasimodo
- The Jimmy Durante Show (1954) as Self
- The Night of the Hunter (1955) Director
- The Lux Show (1957) as Self
- Star Time (1950) as Self
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as Captaine Bligh
- Jamaica Inn (1939) as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
- The Paradine Case (1947) as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Edwin Kensington
- Salome (1953) as King Herod
- If I Had a Million (1932) as Phineas V. Lambert
- O. Henry's Full House (1952) as Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
- The Old Dark House (1932) as Sir William Porterhouse
- Les Misérables (1935) as Inspector Emile Javert
- Island of Lost Souls (1932) as Dr. Moreau
- Captain Kidd (1945) as Captain Kidd
- Advise & Consent (1962) as Senator Seabright Cooley
- Hobson's Choice (1954) as Henry Horatio Hobson
- Arch of Triumph (1948) as Ivon Haake
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940) as Self
- The Big Clock (1948) as Earl Janoth
- It Started with Eve (1941) as Jonathan Reynolds
- The Bribe (1949) as J.J. Bealer
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) as Self (archive footage)
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Young Bess (1953) as King Henry VIII
- The Sign of the Cross (1932) as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
- This Land Is Mine (1943) as Albert Lory
- Forever and a Day (1943) as Bellamy
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Henry VIII
- Tales of Manhattan (1942) as Charles Smith
- Stand by for Action (1942) as Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas
- The Suspect (1945) as Philip Marshall
- Piccadilly (1929) as A Continental Visitor
- The Strange Door (1951) as Sire Alain de Maletroit
- The Horror Show (1979) as (archive footage)
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982) as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972) as Self (archive footage)
- The Canterville Ghost (1944) as Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
- The Blue Veil (1951) as Fred K. Begley
- White Woman (1933) as Horace H. Prin
- St. Martin's Lane (1938) as Charles Staggers
- Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) as Marmaduke Ruggles
- Rembrandt (1936) as Rembrandt van Rijn
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009) as Self (archive footage)
- The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942) as Jonas
- Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999) as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Man from Down Under (1943) as Jocko Wilson
- Under Ten Flags (1960) as Admiral Russell
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) as Inspector Jules Maigret
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) as Edward Moulton-Barrett
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988) Cast
- The Girl from Manhattan (1948) as The Bishop
- Devil and the Deep (1932) as Cmdr. Charles Sturm
- On Our Merry Way (1948) as Reverend
- Because of Him (1946) as John Sheridan
- Daydreams (1928) as Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1960) as Rabbi Adam Heller
- Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) as Capt. William Kidd
- They Knew What They Wanted (1940) as Tony Patucci
- The Epic That Never Was (1969) as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994) as Self (archive footage)
- Payment Deferred (1932) as William Marble
- The Life of Galileo (1964) Translator
- Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014) as Dr. Moreau (archive footage)
- Comets (1930) as Himself
- The Art Director (1949) as Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Vessel of Wrath (1938) as Ginger Ted
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Most-watched Charles Laughton films currently: Spartacus (1960), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
What TV shows has Charles Laughton appeared in?
Selected TV credits: What's My Line? (1950), The Steve Allen Show (1956), The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), MGM Parade (1955).
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