Claude Rains

Claude Rains is a British actor, born the November 10th 1889 with London (the United Kingdom), and deceased the May 30th 1967 with Laconia, in the New Hampshire (the United States).

Biography

It is resulting from a family of eleven children of which only two survived. Gauze during the First World War, it will remain almost blind of an eye.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic art, recognizes its talent of actor and pays him lessons in order to correct its elocution (Rains was affublé of a terrible accent cockney and was of more unable to pronounce the sound “R”).

It is however thanks to its voice that it is made known with Hollywood, in a role where one discovers his face only with the last scene, since it is about the invisible Man of James Whale. Thereafter, the studios Universal entrust the role to him titrates in the remake of 1943 of the Fantôme of the opera, where it succeeds a star of the silent film of horror: Lon Chaney, the man with the thousand faces (it had turned before with the son of this last, Lon Chaney Jr, in the Werewolf).

Claude Rains however refuses to be only a one film actor of horror moreover. He turns in films such as Mr. Smith to the Senate ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)), or the very famous Casablanca (1942), where he excels in the supporting roles, speciality which will be worth to him 4 nominations with the Oscars.

Catalog of films

1920: Build Thy House : Clarkis
1933 : the invisible Man ( Invisible The Man ): the invisible man
1934: Clear-sighted The : Maximus
1934 : Crime Without Passion : Lee Gentry
1934 : The Man Who Reclaimed His Head : Paul Jack
1935: Mystery off Edwin Drood : John To marble
1935: The Last Outpost : John Stevenson
1936: Hearts Divided : Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
1936: Anthony Adverse, merchant of slaves ( Anthony Adverse ): Marquis Don Shine
1937: Stolen Holiday : Stefan Orloff
1937 : The Prince and the Pauper : Earl off Hertford
1937: the City thunders ( They won' T forget ): Dist. Atty. Andrew J. “Andy” Griffin
1938: White Banners : Paul Ward
1938: the Battle of gold ( Gold Is Where You Find It ): Colonel Christopher “Chris” Ferris
1938: Adventures of Robin of Wood ( The Adventures off Robin Hood ): Prince John
1938: Furnace Daughters : Adam Lemp
1939: I am a criminal ( They Made has Me Criminal ): Det. Monty Phelan
1939 : Juarez : Emperor Louis Napoleon III
1939: Sounds off Liberty : Haym Solomon
1939: Daughters Courageous : Jim Masters
1939: Mr. Smith with the Senate ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ): SEN. Joseph Harrison Paine
1939: Furnace Wives : Adam Lemp
1940: Saturday' S Children : Mr. Henry Halevy
1940: the Eagle of the seas ( The Sea Hawk ): Gift Jose Alvarez de Cordoba
1940: Lady with Red To hate : David Belasco
1941: Furnace Mothers : Adam Lemp
1941: Late recalcitrant the ( Young stag Comes Mr. Jordan ): Mr. Jordan
1941: the Werewolf ( The Wolf Man ): Sir John Talbot
1942: Crimes without punishment ( Kings Row ): Dr. Alexander Tower

1942 : the Barge of the love ( Moontide ): Nutsy
1942 : a woman seeks her destiny ( Now, Voyager ): Dr. Jaquith
1942: Casablanca : Captain Renault
1943: Forever and has Day : Ambrose Pomfret
1943 : the Phantom of the Opera ( Phantom off the Opera ): Erique Claudin
1944 : Passage for Marseilles ( Passage to Marseilles ): Captain Freycinet
1944 : loved Femme is always pretty ( Mr. Skeffington ): Job Skeffington
1945: Strange Holiday : John Stevenson
1945: Our dear love ( This Coils Bear off): Joseph Targel
1945: César and Cléopatre ( Caesar and Cleopatra ): Jules César
1946: Connected the ( Notorious ): Alexander Sebastian
1946 : the Escaped prisoner of the hell ( Angel one My Shoulder ): Nick
1946 : Jealousy ( Disappointment ): Alexander Hollenius
1947 : the Crime was almost perfect ( The Unsuspected ): Victor Grandison
1949: impassioned Lovers ( The Passionate Friends ): Howard Justin
1949: the sand Cord ( Rope off Sand ): Arthur “Fred” Martingale
1949: Song off Surrender : Elisha Hunt
1950 : The White Tower : Paul DeLambre
1950: Where Danger Lives : Frederick Lannington
1951 : Sealed Cargo liner : Captain Skalder
1952 : the Man who looked at passing the trains ( The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By ): Kees Popinga
1956 : Lisbon ( Lisbon ): Aristides Mavros
1957 : The Foot Piper off Hamelin (TV): Mayor of Hamelin
1959: This Earth Is Mine : Philippe Rambeau
1959: Once Upon has Christmas Tree (TV)
1960: Shangri it (TV): High LAMA
1960: Le Monde lost ( The Lost World ): Professor George Edward Challenger
1961: the Planet of the lost men ( It Pianeta degli uomini spenti ): Professor Benson
1962 : Lawrence of Arabia ( Lawrence off Arabia ): Mr. Dryden
1963: Twilight off Honor : Art To grip
1965: Greatest History ever told ( The Greatest Story Ever Told ): King Herod

Distinctions

1939 : Nominated under the male best supporting role for the role of the Senator Joseph Paine in Mr. Smith with the Senate ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ) of Frank Capra.
1943 : Nominated under the male best supporting role for the role of the captain Louis Renault in Casablanca of Michael Curtiz.
1944 : Nominated under the male best supporting role for the role of Job Skeffington in loved and always pretty Woman ( Mr. Skeffington ) of Vincent Sherman.
1946 : Nominated under the male best supporting role for the role of Alexander Sebastian in connected the ( Notorious ) of Alfred Hitchcock.

External bond

Claude Rains on Internet Movie Database

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