Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton is a Acteur of Théâtre and Cinéma and a British Réalisateur born on July 1st 1899 with Scarborough (Yorkshire, the United Kingdom), naturalized American in 1950, and deceased the December 15th 1962 with Hollywood (California, E. - U.) of the continuations of a Cancer. It also takes part in the development of some scenarios, produces some films and reads out work. Of an engaging physique little, it often uses this feature in its play of actor and assoit his reputation grace, inter alia, with its interpretations of the Bligh Captain in Revolted of Bounty and of Quasimodo in film of the same name like to its single film, the Night of the hunter , which makes of him a figure of the most respected cinema.
Biography
Wire of a family of hotel, he works in the family company as from 1915, but is quickly called to take share with the First World War. Of return, it again integrates its employment before going to study in 1925 in Royal Academy off Dramatic Art of London. In 1926, it makes its beginning on the London theatrical scene and in 1928 in silent films inspired of the stories of H.G. Wells. It is on this occasion that it meets the actress Elsa Lanchester who will become his wife in 1929 and with which he will play in various plays like in ten films, of which Private life of Henry VIII (1933), Rembrandt (1936), Vessel off Wrath (1938), the Large clock (1948) or Witness for the prosecution (1957) where she interprets the role of her nurse sadique.In 1931 it begins on the New Yorkean scene in Payment deferred ( Paiement differed ). In 1932 they will return to settle definitively with the the United States and will make the same year its first American film, The Old Dark House ( One evening strange ) with Boris Karloff. While carrying out a cinematographic career largely devoted to dramatic films, it multiplies its theatrical interventions: between 1944 and 1945 it frequently meets Bertolt Brecht which it pushes to work on the American version of Leben of Galilei ( Galileo ) whose it carries out the translation and who will be put in scene in 1947 and whose a short-measuring will be carried out. After the Second world war, it appears in several parts shakespeariennes with Stratford-upon-Avon and made radiophonic readings or recordings of works as various as the Bible (in 1959) or The Dharma Burms of Jack Kerouac while passing by “Mr.Pickwick' S Christmas” of Charles Dickens (in 1944). It also takes part in the documentary ones and several televised series as a invité.
In the Years 1950, it encounters some difficulties at the time of the drives out with the witches carried out by the Senator Joseph McCarthy. During this same period it gives courses and has inter alia, Shelley Winters as raises. It uses at the time of its lesson of the songs of Billie Holiday to illustrate the techniques vocales.
It tests with the camera during the turning of the Man of the tower Eiffel when Burgess Meredith, realizer titrates some who holds also a role in film, plays a scene. It is in 1955 that it carries out its single film, The Night off the Hunter ( the Night of the hunter ), with Robert Mitchum in the main role, black film in the form of moral tale, with the strange atmosphere and the very studied lighting but which does not meet at its exit into the room hoped success. Cooled by this failure, it will not do of it an other and it is only well later that its heritage will be classified among the masterpieces of the cinema.
The man
Of an ungrateful physique, he often personifies in his roles the moral or physical monstrosity (Low Sunday, the Bligh Captain in Revolted of Bounty ). He says itself: “I have a face like the rear-axle unit of an elephant. ” or “I have a face which would stop a sundial. ”, words without call which say of it long as for the regard that it goes. This dislike of its person does nothing but exacerbate her sensitivity in the approach of the characters whom he interprets, a little with the manner of W.C. Fields before him and which gives him a play of actor who pushes with admiration. Homosexual notorious, there does not remain about it less faithful to his wife until her décès.Amateur of painting towards the end of his life, unconditional admiror of Nicolas de Staël, it buys several works of this artist at the time when this one is not yet known. There whereas a character as Billy Wilder buys fabrics for a financial investment, Charles Laughton, acquires these works for their beauty to him, by love of art, revealing still a little more his personality.
Rewards
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1933 : Oscar of the best principal actor for private life of Henry VIII
- 1936: elected official better actor in the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Revolted of Bounty and Extravagant Mr. Ruggles
- 1936: named like better main actor with the Oscars for Revolted of Bounty
- 1958: named like better Witness for the prosecution main actor with the Oscars for
- 1958: named like better movie actor (drama category) to the Witness for the prosecution Golden Globes for
- 1959: named like better foreign actor in British Academy off Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA Awards) for Witness for the prosecution
- 1963: named as better foreign actor with the British Academy off Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA Awards) for Tempête in Washington
- star on the Walk off Famed (cinema category) on Fortifies Street with Hollywood (Los Angeles, California, E. - U.)
Catalog of films
Cinema
Except contrary mention, the films are American achievements and in black and white.
Actor
- * 1928: Daydreams of Ivor Montagu (the United Kingdom)
- dumb Short film , with Elsa Lanchester
- * 1928: Blue Bottles of Ivor Montagu (the United Kingdom)
- dumb short film, police Comedy, with Elsa Lanchester
- * 1929: Piccadilly of Arnold Bennett (the United Kingdom)
- police drama
- * 1930: Wolves of Albert de Courville (the United Kingdom)
- short film, police drama
- * 1931: Down To rivet Peter Godfrey (the United Kingdom)
- police
- * 1932: Payment Deferred ( Paiement differed ) of Lothar Mendes
- drama, adaptation of the part which he played previously, first film with the the United States
- * 1932: The Old Dark House ( One evening strange ) of James Whale
- terror (also known under the House of dead the )
- * 1932: The Sign off the Cross-country race ( the Sign of the cross ) of Cecil B. dramatic DeMille
- * 1932: Island off Lost Drunk persons ( the Island of Doctor Moreau ) of Erle C. Kenton
- fantastic (title of work: The Island off Dr. Moreau )
- * 1932: Devil and the Deep ( the Demon of the submarine ) of Marion Gering
- drama
- * 1932: If I had has Million ( If I had a million ) of James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter and Norman Taurog
- series of court-measurings, dramatic comedy
- * 1933: The Private Life off Henry VIII ( Private life of Henry VIII ) of Alexander Korda (the United Kingdom)
- historical
- * 1933: White Woman ( the Insane one of the islands ) of Stuart Walker
- drama
- * 1934: The Barretts off Wimpole Street ( Miss Barrett ) of Franklin Sidney
- romantic drama ( Forbidden Alliance : titrate US TV)
- * 1935: the Poor wretches of Richard Boleslawski
- drama traditional
- * 1935: Mutiny one the Bounty ( Revolted of Bounty ) of Frank Lloyd
- ventures dramatic
- * 1935: Ruggles off Red Gap ( Extravagant Mr. Ruggles ) of Leo McCarey
- comedy
- * 1936: Rembrandt of Alexander Korda (the United Kingdom)
- drama
- * 1937: I, Claudius of Denis Kavanagh and Josef von Sternberg (the United Kingdom)
- péplum dramatic, not completed
- * 1938: Vessel off Wrath of Erich Pommer (the United Kingdom)
- drama ( The Beachcomber : titrate American)
- * 1938: St Martin' S Lane ( High-speed motorboats of the paving stone ) of Tim Whelan (the United Kingdom)
- comedy ( Sidewalks off London : titrate American)
- * 1939: The Hunchback off Notre Dame ( Low Sunday ) of William Dieterle
- drama traditional, first film with RKO (also known under Low Sunday, the uneven one of Notre-Dame )
- * 1939: Jamaica Inn ( the Tavern of Jamaica ) of Alfred Hitchcock (the United Kingdom)
- ventures dramatic (also known under the Inn of Jamaica )
- * 1940: They Knew What They Wanted ( Funny of marriage ) of Garson Kanin
- drama romantic
- * 1941: It Started with Eve ( Eve began ) Henry Koster
- comedy
- * 1942: off Bruise Manhattan ( Six destinies ) of Julien Duvivier
- dramatic comedy (title of work: Stars Over Manhattan )
- * 1942: Stand By for Action of Robert Z. Leonard
- war, drama ( Cargo liner off Innocent : titrate English)
- * 1942: The Tuttles off Tahiti of Charles Vidor
- comedy
- * 1943: The Man From Down Under of Robert Z. Leonard
- drama
- * 1943: This Land is Mine ( To live free ) of Jean Renoir
- war, drama
- * 1943:
Forever and has Day Rene Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox- film with sketches, drama
- * 1944:
Suspect The ( the Suspect ) of dramatic Robert Siodmak- police
- * 1944:
The Canterville Ghost ( the Phantom of Canterville ) of Jules Dassin and Norman Taurog- comedy fantastic
- * 1944:
Passport to Destiny of Ray McCarey- war, comedy, appears only on one photograph (also known under
- ventures
- comedy (title of work:
- short film, adaptation of the part of Bertolt Brecht which he played previously
- drama
- police
- drama
- drama romantic
- suspense
- police, according to
- drama
- horror (complete title:
- drama into five sketches (title of work:
- musical comedy, color
- péplum, color (also known under
- drama historical, color
- series TV, black and white
- dramatic comedy
- short film
- police
- drama, color (
- war
- drama, its last film
Realizer
- * 1950: The Man off the Eiffel Tower ( the Man of the tower Eiffel ) of Burgess Meredith, Charles Laughton and Irving Allen (USA/France)
- police, according to the Head of the man of Georges Simenon
- Irving Allen makes only the first three days of turning, Laughton directs when Meredith is in front of the camera
- * 1955: The Night off the Hunter ( the Night of the hunter )
- police black film, with Robert Mitchum
- police, according to the Head of the man of Georges Simenon
Scenario writer
- * 1938: St Martin' S Lane ( High-speed motorboats of the paving stone ) of Tim Whelan (the United Kingdom)
- ( Sidewalks off London : titrate American), takes part in the development of the scenario
- * 1947: Galileo ( Life of Galileo ) of Ruth Berlau and Joseph Losey
- carries out the translation of the part of Bertolt Brecht
- * 1955: The Night off the Hunter ( the Night of the hunter )
Producer
- (also known under the Inn of Jamaica )
- * 1938: Vessel off Wrath of Erich Pommer (the United Kingdom)
- ( The Beachcomber : titrate American)
- * 1938: St Martin' S Lane ( High-speed motorboats of the paving stone ) of Tim Whelan (the United Kingdom)
- ( Sidewalks off London : titrate American)
- * 1939: Jamaica Inn ( the Tavern of Jamaica ) of Alfred Hitchcock (the United Kingdom)
Theater
Actor
- * 1926: The Revizor ( Revizor ) of Nicolas Gogol
- first appearance, beginnings on the London scene (part so known under The Government Inspector )
- * 1928: Alibi adapted novel the Murder of Roger Ackroyd of Agatha Christie
- police, he is the first actor to play the Détective Hercule Poirot
- * 1931: Payment Deferred ( Payment differed ) adapted novel of C S Forester
- beginnings on the New Yorkean scene
- * 1932: Fatal The Alibi adapted novel the Murder of Roger Ackroyd of Agatha Christie
- police, Laughton is also with the direction (American version of Alibi )
- * 1947: Galileo ( Life of Galileo ) of Bertolt Brecht
- * 1950: The Cherry Orchard ( the Cherry orchard ) of Anton Tchekhov
- * 1951 then 1952: Don Juan in Hell ( Don Juan with the hells ), third act of Man and Superman of George Bernard Shaw
- drama, Laughton is also with the direction
- * 1956 with 1957: Major Barbara of George Bernard Shaw
- comedy, Laughton is also with the direction
- * 1959: King Lear ( the King Lear ) of William Shakespeare
- tragedy traditional
Directions
- * 1932: Fatal The Alibi adapted novel the Murder of Roger Ackroyd of Agatha Christie
- police, Laughton also plays in the part
- * 1951 then 1952: Don Juan in Hell ( Don Juan with the hells ), third act of Man and Superman of George Bernard Shaw
- drama, Laughton also plays in the part
- * 1953: John Brown' S Body adapted by Laughton of Stephen Vincent Benét
- with Judith Anderson
- * 1956 to 1957: Major Barbara of George Bernard Shaw
- comedy, Laughton also plays in the part
- * 1954 with 1955: The Caine Mutiny - Short-Martial ( Hurricane on Caine ) adapted novel of Hermann Wouk
- drama, with Henry Founded, carried in 1954 with the cinema by Edward Dmytryk
Producer
- * 1955: 3 for Tonight
- re-examined musical, with Harry Belafonte
Sentences
- “has each time I enter a restaurant, I am not entitled only to a soup but also to an imitation of the Bligh captain. ”
- “the “method actors” (1) give a photograph. Truths actors give a oil-base paint. ”
Anecdotes
- In 1941, at the beginning of the turning of It Started with Eve ( Eve began ), an assistant would have declared that if Jonathan Reynolds Senior (main role of film played by Laughton) had lived two centuries earlier, it could have been large a Pirate, even the captain Kidd. Laughton will interpret this character later a few years (1945) in the film éponyme.
- It is caricatured by Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny in the album of the Aventures of Astérix the Gallic , the Bill hook of gold , under the features of Gracchus Pleindastus, Roman prefect of Lutèce and chief of the network of traffickers of gold bill hooks. The album leaves in 1960 in the review Pilote, the same year as the film Spartacus of Stanley Kubrick in which Charles Laughton plays. The name of the character of Gracchus Pleindastus is itself a wink with the film in which it holds the role of the senator corrupted Sempronius Gracchus.
- to interpret its role in Advise and Authorizes ( Tempête in Washington , 1962), it bases its play of actor on true a senator, John Stennis (the Mississippi) and goes as far as listening to recordings of the politician in order to impregnate accent and rate/rhythm of its words.
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