Charles Laughton filmography
These are the films of Charles Laughton:
Filmography[]
Unless otherwise stated the films are U.S. productions in black and white.
1928–1940[]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Co-stars | Notes and awards |
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1928 | The Tonic | Father of the Family | Ivor Montagu | Elsa Lanchester | Filmed in England Short, (film debut) |
Daydreams | Lecherous Boarder / Ram Das in Dream Sequence | Ivor Montagu | Elsa Lanchester | Filmed in England Short | |
Blue Bottles | Burglar | Ivor Montagu | Elsa Lanchester | Filmed in England Short | |
1929 | Piccadilly | A Nightclub Diner | Ewald André Dupont | Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong, Cyril Ritchard | Filmed in England |
1930 | Comets | Himself | Sasha Geneen | Elsa Lanchester | Filmed in England |
Wolves | Captain Job | Albert de Courville | Dorothy Gish, Malcolm Keen | Filmed in England | |
1931 | Down River | Captain Grossman | Peter Godfrey | Jane Baxter | Filmed in England |
1932 | Devil and the Deep | Commander Charles Sturm | Marion Gering | Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant | |
The Old Dark House | Sir William Porterhouse | James Whale | Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart | ||
Payment Deferred | William Marble | Lothar Mendes | Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Veree Teasdale, Ray Milland | ||
If I Had A Million | Phineas V. Lambert | multipleI | Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles, George Raft, Jack Oakie | ||
The Sign of the Cross | Emperor Nero | Cecil B. DeMille | Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Ian Keith | ||
Island of Lost Souls | Dr. Moreau | Erle C. Kenton | Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke | ||
1933 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | King Henry VIII | Alexander Korda | Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Donat | Filmed in England Academy Award for Best Actor |
White Woman | Horace H. Prin | Stuart Walker | Carole Lombard, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor, Percy Kilbride | ||
1934 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett | Sidney Franklin | Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander | |
1935 | Ruggles of Red Gap | Marmaduke Ruggles | Leo McCarey | Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams | |
Les Misérables | Inspector Javert | Richard Boleslawski | Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, John Beal, Frances Drake | ||
Mutiny on the Bounty | Captain William Bligh | Frank Lloyd | Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actor | |
1936 | Rembrandt | Rembrandt van Rijn | Alexander Korda | Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester | Filmed in England |
1937 | I, Claudius | Claudius | Josef von Sternberg | Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, Merle Oberon | |
1938 | Vessel of Wrath | Ginger "Ted" Wilson | Erich Pommer | Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton | Produced by Laughton Filmed in England Released in the United States as The Beachcomber |
St. Martin's Lane | Charles Staggers | Tim Whelan | Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler, Tyrone Guthrie | Produced by Laughton Filmed in England Released in the United States as Sidewalks of London | |
1939 | Jamaica Inn | Sir Humphrey Pengallan | Alfred Hitchcock | Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks | Produced by Laughton Filmed in England; |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | William Dieterle | Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien | ||
1940 | They Knew What They Wanted | Tony Patucci | Garson Kanin | Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey, Frank Fay |
^I Directed by James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter and Norman Taurog
1941–1949[]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Co-stars | Notes and awards |
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1941 | It Started with Eve | Jonathan Reynolds | Henry Koster | Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee | |
1942 | The Tuttles of Tahiti | Jonas Tuttle | Charles Vidor | Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen | |
Tales of Manhattan | Charles Smith | Julien Duvivier | Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda | ||
Stand By for Action | Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Marilyn Maxwell | ||
1943 | Forever and a Day | Bellamy (Dexter's Butler) | multipleII | Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young, Ray Milland, Jessie Matthews, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Buster Keaton, Elsa Lanchester | |
This Land is Mine | Albert Lory | Jean Renoir | Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith | ||
The Man From Down Under | Jocko Wilson | Robert Z. Leonard | Binnie Barnes, Donna Reed, Richard Carlson | ||
1944 | Passport to Destiny | Sergeant Major Henry Albert Muggins (photo) | Ray McCarey | Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert | Uncredited |
The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost | Jules Dassin Norman Taurog |
Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford, Una O'Connor, Reginald Owen | ||
The Suspect | Philip Marshall | Robert Siodmak | Ella Raines, Henry Daniell | ||
1945 | Captain Kidd | Captain William Kidd | Rowland V. Lee | Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Reginald Owen, Gilbert Roland | |
1946 | Because of Him | John Sheridan | Richard Wallace | Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick, Stanley Ridges | |
1947 | The Paradine Case | Judge Lord Thomas Horfield | Alfred Hitchcock | Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Coburn, Louis Jourdan, Ethel Barrymore | |
Leben des Galilei | Galileo Galilei | Ray McCarey | Hugo Haas | Collaborated on the translation of the play by Bertolt Brecht. A 30-minute 'short'. Short | |
1948 | On Our Merry Way (originally A Miracle Can Happen) | Reverend John B. Dunne | King Vidor | James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard | Scenes cut in American release; replaced by Lamour sequence Uncredited |
Arch of Triumph | Ivon Haake | Lewis Milestone | Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Louis Calhern, Michael Romanoff, J. Edward Bromberg | ||
The Big Clock | Earl Janoth | John Farrow | Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson | ||
The Girl from Manhattan | The Bishop | Alfred E. Green | Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Ernest Truex, Hugh Herbert | ||
1949 | The Bribe | J.J. Bealer | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Vincent Price, John Hodiak | |
The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Inspector Jules Maigret | Burgess Meredith Charles Laughton Irving Allen |
Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Jean Wallace | Anscocolor |
^II Directed by René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox
1951–1962[]
Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Co-stars | Notes and awards |
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1951 | The Blue Veil | Fred K. Begley | Curtis Bernhardt | Jane Wyman, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead | |
The Strange Door | Sire Alain de Maletroit | Joseph Pevney | Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Michael Pate | ||
1952 | O. Henry's Full House | Soapy | Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Jean Negulesco and Henry Koster | Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Fred Allen | (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") |
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd | Capt. William Kidd | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke | SuperCinecolor | |
1953 | Salome | King Herod | William Dieterle | Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel | Technicolor |
Young Bess | King Henry VIII | George Sidney | Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Kay Walsh | Technicolor | |
1954 | Hobson's Choice | Henry Horatio Hobson | David Lean | John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales | Filmed in England |
1955 | The Night of the Hunter | — | Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves | Directed by Laughton |
1957 | Witness for the Prosecution | Sir Wilfrid Robarts | Billy Wilder | Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama |
1960 | Sotto dieci bandiere | Admiral Russell | Duilio Coletti | Van Heflin, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker | Filmed in Italy Released in the United States as Under Ten Flags |
Spartacus | Sempronius Gracchus | Stanley Kubrick | Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov | Super Technirama 70 Technicolor | |
1962 | Advise & Consent | Sen. Seabright Cooley | Otto Preminger | Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor (final film role) |
References[]
- Charles Laughton at IMDb
- Charles Laughton at the TCM Movie Database
- Charles Laughton at the Internet Broadway Database
- Charles Laughton at the BFI's Screenonline
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- Male actor filmographies
- British filmographies
- American filmographies