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Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film character actor, director, producer and screenwriter who had a successful career in Hollywood.
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; they had no children.
He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making a big 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 some of the most notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Laughton, was one of the most recognisable and beloved character actors of his generation, and portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film-hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Big Clock. In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film, the acclaimed thriller The Night of the Hunter.
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Plot: Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.
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Charles Laughton was in an unfinished Josef von Sternberg movie called I, CLAUDIUS.
This could be the centerpiece of a master class in storytelling.
In 1937, filming began on "I, Claudius," from the Robert Graves novel, with Charles Laughton in the title role. The cast also included Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams and Robert Newton. Producer Alexander Korda hired Josef von Sternberg to direct but once the cameras started rolling it became evident that Laughton was having great difficulty in getting into his part. Matters went from bad to worse, so that when Merle Oberon was involved in a car crash and hospitalised for several weeks, it was looked on, in Emlyn Williams's words, "as a godsend" and the film was abandoned altogether. In 1965, a TV programme investigated this unfinished project in a documentary narrated by Dirk Bogarde entitled 'The Epic That Never Was.' The surviving participants (including Oberon, Williams, Ro...
Charles Laughton became the first actor in a British film to win an Oscar for his portrayal of the much-married monarch in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). In this famous scene, he's in a state of fury at having been nagged by all and sundry, including the royal barber, to marry yet again, despite having had three wives already. By the end of the film he has had six wives, the fifth of whom, Catherine Howard (played here by Binnie Barnes) sings to him during dinner once he's finished demolishing his chicken.
Criterion extras for Spartacus. Abbreviated at the start. Missing Ustinov talking about the secular uniqueness of this type of costume drama. I was blown away by the off the top of his head eloquence of this man. I could listen to him all day. Really loved his Charles Laughton impressions. Lots of anecdotes. Kubrick, Kirk, the times. I don't own this. Just sharing this fragment.
Charles Laughton was an English stage and film character 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; they had no children. 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 films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bount...
Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Loughton) cross-examines Miss Janet McKenzie (Una O'Connor) in Billy Wilder's classic courtroom drama. Exposing her need for a hearing aid -- which she has waited for for more than six months to receive from the British National Health Service -- Robarts destroys the credibility of her ear-witness testimony.
First time on YouTube. From a 1950 radio show, Elsa Lanchester (the Bride of Frankenstein) and Charles Laughton (Quasimodo, Captain Bligh), who were married in real life, sing Frank Loesser's delightful winter classic. One of the strangest and most wonderful versions of the song ever.
EROTISMO Y CINE. ORGASMOS METAFORIZADOS EN LA PANTALLA. La noche del cazador (The night of the hunter, USA, 1955) de Charles Laughton c/ Robert Mitchum y Shelley Winters Texto por Pablo Acosta Larroca Luego del prólogo que alude a la tradición de los cuentos infantiles y su enseñanza ejemplificadora (“un árbol bueno no puede dar malos frutos, ni un árbol malo producir buenos frutos”), le sigue la presentación del protagonista de la historia: Harry Powell, que tras su apariencia de predicador se esconde un cruento asesino de mujeres (“Desconfiad de los falsos profetas que se cubren con pieles de cordero, pero que en su interior son lobos furiosos” versa la voz de Lilian Gish en el prólogo). En esta escena Harry confiesa sus crímenes y pecados ante Dios con total irreverencia y sin pres...
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters
Remake d'une scène du film culte LA NUIT DU CHASSEUR, de Charles Laughton, avec le grand Robert Mitchum. Ici, Benoît Guillaume et Barbara Malleville. Remake of a scene taken from the cult movie NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, by Charles Laughton, with the great Robert Mitchum. Here, Benoît Guillaume et Barbara Malleville. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X20XIg38GcE
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters
The Night of the Hunter [1955, Charles Laughton] + Cold Cold Ground [1987, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits] [dedicated to F. my Saint of Killers]
SPARK BLACK & WHITE CINEMA CELEBRATION Production Company: Spark Concept & Editing: Wouter Sessink Over a century of magnificent black and white movie classics condensed into 3 minutes. A celebration of a time with little hue and lots of contrast. See more at: www.spark-trailers.com info@spark-trailers.com @SparkTrailers MUSIC The Glitch Mob - Animus Vox (2010). Please respect copyrighted material of musical artists by visiting iTunes. MOTION PICTURES USED Citizen Kane Orson Welles The Maltese Falcon John Huston Casablanca Michael Curtiz Brief Encounter David Lean It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra The Third Man Carol Reed Sunset Blvd. Billy Wilder Psycho Alfred Hitchcock Tokyo Story Yasujirô Ozu Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton Inva...
PUBLIC DOMAIN PROPERTY Directed by Josef von Sternberg Produced by Alexander Korda Written by Robert Graves (adapting own novel) Starring Charles Laughton Flora Robson Emlyn Williams Merle Oberon Release date(s) 1937 (intended) Country UK Language English
Gibbous Moon is the fourth and final track in a four-song 7" Momus EP due to be released exclusively in early 2011 by Tona Serenad Records, a Swedish label specialising in vinyl one-offs and limited editions. The song was written around samples provided by John Henriksson from the label. Pre-ordering for the limited edition 7-inch will begin shortly. The video shows a scene from the Charles Laughton movie Night of the Hunter. http://www.tonaserenad.com
Rita Hayworth Hija del bailarín Eduardo Cansino, natural de Castilleja de la Cuesta (Sevilla, España), y de Volga Haworth, de origen irlandés. Rita empezó su carrera como bailarina junto a su padre, y con su nombre real, a la temprana edad de 13 años. Llegó a Hollywood en 1933, y desde 1935 actuó como actriz en papeles secundarios, realizando muchas películas de serie B en las que sobre todo destacó por sus dotes para la danza, o por su elegante aspecto. De esta etapa destaca la película Charlie Chan en Egipto (1937), de Louis King, película perteneciente a la saga dedicada al célebre detective oriental, en la que trabajó junto a Warner Oland, que encarnaba a Chan. Fue su marido, por aquel entonces Edward Judson, quien la lanzó al estrellato, convirtiéndola en su mejor inversión persona...
Filmed through a microscope, this piece superimposes footage from Anna May Wong’s performance in the silent film “Piccadilly” (1929) unto a magnified strand of my hair. The film sampled is a scene from "Piccadilly" (1929). Anna May Wong plays a dishwasher in the London theater. The theater director, played by Charles Laughton, discovers her dancing in the scullery, fires her, and then later brings her to the stage. Music, editing, video by Minette Lee Mangahas (c) 2011
In 1937, filming began on "I, Claudius," from the Robert Graves novel, with Charles Laughton in the title role. The cast also included Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams and Robert Newton. Producer Alexander Korda hired Josef von Sternberg to direct but once the cameras started rolling it became evident that Laughton was having great difficulty in getting into his part. Matters went from bad to worse, so that when Merle Oberon was involved in a car crash and hospitalised for several weeks, it was looked on, in Emlyn Williams's words, "as a godsend" and the film was abandoned altogether. In 1965, a TV programme investigated this unfinished project in a documentary narrated by Dirk Bogarde entitled 'The Epic That Never Was.' The surviving participants (including Oberon, Williams, Ro...
Criterion extras for Spartacus. Abbreviated at the start. Missing Ustinov talking about the secular uniqueness of this type of costume drama. I was blown away by the off the top of his head eloquence of this man. I could listen to him all day. Really loved his Charles Laughton impressions. Lots of anecdotes. Kubrick, Kirk, the times. I dont own this. Just sharing this fragment.
Jamaica Inn (1939) Classic Movie Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Rembrandt is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The film was . Título original: Rembrandt Año: 1936 Duración: 84 min. País: Reino Unido Director: Alexander Korda Reparto: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Gertrude . REMBRANDT (1936) tells the true story of 17th century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Directed and produced by the legendary Alexander Korda, it stars .
MYSTERY GUEST: Charles Laughton [theater and film actor] PANEL: Arlene Francis, Burgess Meredith, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
True story of the great artist Rembrandt.. I do not own this film . It is posted for educational purposes. All my respect to the owner.
British film, directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda Starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat Merle Oberon Elsa Lanchester Franklin Dyall Binnie Barnes. Written by Lajos Bíró Arthur Wimperis Cinematography Georges Périnal Costume Design by John Armstrong Art Direction Vincent Korda vesves C.P. Norman
This Movie has fallen into the Public Domain and can now be watched for free and in full on YouTube.
Magistral como siempre Charles Laughton, en esta ocasión encarnando ejemplarmente a uno de los anti-héroes por excelencia del cine de aventuras: el . Directed by Rowland V Lee In 1699, William Kidd (Charles Laughton), a ruthless pirate who has recently captured the ship The Twelve Apostles and killed its . ΕΠΕΞΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ VIDEO - ΕΝΣΩΜΑΤΩΣΗ ΥΠΟΤΙΤΛΩΝ :DEATON - NIKOLAOS. Captain Kidd (1945). EΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:O ματωμένος κουρσάρος. Director:.
Everyone lays the blame at a magazine editor George Stroud's door for the death of his boss' mistress because he spends an evening with her. He attempts to find the trace to prove his innocence before it is too late.
Charles Laughton was in an unfinished Josef von Sternberg movie called I, CLAUDIUS.
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, art director Hilyard Brown, producer Paul Gregory, editor Robert Golden, second unit director Terry Sanders and cinematographer Stanley Cortez. From an episode of BBC's Moving Pictures. Original broadcast date: 19 february 1995. http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e1dba23 Criterion https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter
From The Colgate Comedy Hour with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, here's actor Charles Laughton reciting The Gettysburg Address. This is on LIVE TV back in the 1950's. So there are no re-takes. Bud and Lou also have there comedic take on the famous speech at the beginning. But Laughton steals the show with this unrehearsed performance. There are cue cards off stage but it looks as if Laughton didn't need them. Absolutely marvelous !
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Simon Callow discusses the great Charles Laughton and his role in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
First time on YouTube. From a 1950 radio show, Elsa Lanchester (the Bride of Frankenstein) and Charles Laughton (Quasimodo, Captain Bligh), who were married in real life, sing Frank Loesser's delightful winter classic. One of the strangest and most wonderful versions of the song ever.
One of the greatest scenes ever filmed: Charles Laughton as Claudius from the incomplete and never released Alexander Korda film, I Claudius. Introduced by Robert Graves and Dirk Bogarde.
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Charles Laughton was an English stage and film character 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; they had no children. 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 films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bount...
From The Colgate Comedy Hour with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, here's actor Charles Laughton reciting The Gettysburg Address. This is on LIVE TV back in the 1950's. So there are no re-takes. Bud and Lou also have there comedic take on the famous speech at the beginning. But Laughton steals the show with this unrehearsed performance. There are cue cards off stage but it looks as if Laughton didn't need them. Absolutely marvelous !
Charles Laughton was in an unfinished Josef von Sternberg movie called I, CLAUDIUS.
This could be the centerpiece of a master class in storytelling.
In 1937, filming began on "I, Claudius," from the Robert Graves novel, with Charles Laughton in the title role. The cast also included Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams and Robert Newton. Producer Alexander Korda hired Josef von Sternberg to direct but once the cameras started rolling it became evident that Laughton was having great difficulty in getting into his part. Matters went from bad to worse, so that when Merle Oberon was involved in a car crash and hospitalised for several weeks, it was looked on, in Emlyn Williams's words, "as a godsend" and the film was abandoned altogether. In 1965, a TV programme investigated this unfinished project in a documentary narrated by Dirk Bogarde entitled 'The Epic That Never Was.' The surviving participants (including Oberon, Williams, Ro...
Charles Laughton became the first actor in a British film to win an Oscar for his portrayal of the much-married monarch in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). In this famous scene, he's in a state of fury at having been nagged by all and sundry, including the royal barber, to marry yet again, despite having had three wives already. By the end of the film he has had six wives, the fifth of whom, Catherine Howard (played here by Binnie Barnes) sings to him during dinner once he's finished demolishing his chicken.
Criterion extras for Spartacus. Abbreviated at the start. Missing Ustinov talking about the secular uniqueness of this type of costume drama. I was blown away by the off the top of his head eloquence of this man. I could listen to him all day. Really loved his Charles Laughton impressions. Lots of anecdotes. Kubrick, Kirk, the times. I don't own this. Just sharing this fragment.
Charles Laughton was an English stage and film character 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; they had no children. 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 films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bount...
Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Loughton) cross-examines Miss Janet McKenzie (Una O'Connor) in Billy Wilder's classic courtroom drama. Exposing her need for a hearing aid -- which she has waited for for more than six months to receive from the British National Health Service -- Robarts destroys the credibility of her ear-witness testimony.
First time on YouTube. From a 1950 radio show, Elsa Lanchester (the Bride of Frankenstein) and Charles Laughton (Quasimodo, Captain Bligh), who were married in real life, sing Frank Loesser's delightful winter classic. One of the strangest and most wonderful versions of the song ever.
EROTISMO Y CINE. ORGASMOS METAFORIZADOS EN LA PANTALLA. La noche del cazador (The night of the hunter, USA, 1955) de Charles Laughton c/ Robert Mitchum y Shelley Winters Texto por Pablo Acosta Larroca Luego del prólogo que alude a la tradición de los cuentos infantiles y su enseñanza ejemplificadora (“un árbol bueno no puede dar malos frutos, ni un árbol malo producir buenos frutos”), le sigue la presentación del protagonista de la historia: Harry Powell, que tras su apariencia de predicador se esconde un cruento asesino de mujeres (“Desconfiad de los falsos profetas que se cubren con pieles de cordero, pero que en su interior son lobos furiosos” versa la voz de Lilian Gish en el prólogo). En esta escena Harry confiesa sus crímenes y pecados ante Dios con total irreverencia y sin pres...
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters
Remake d'une scène du film culte LA NUIT DU CHASSEUR, de Charles Laughton, avec le grand Robert Mitchum. Ici, Benoît Guillaume et Barbara Malleville. Remake of a scene taken from the cult movie NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, by Charles Laughton, with the great Robert Mitchum. Here, Benoît Guillaume et Barbara Malleville. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X20XIg38GcE
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters
The Night of the Hunter [1955, Charles Laughton] + Cold Cold Ground [1987, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits] [dedicated to F. my Saint of Killers]
SPARK BLACK & WHITE CINEMA CELEBRATION Production Company: Spark Concept & Editing: Wouter Sessink Over a century of magnificent black and white movie classics condensed into 3 minutes. A celebration of a time with little hue and lots of contrast. See more at: www.spark-trailers.com info@spark-trailers.com @SparkTrailers MUSIC The Glitch Mob - Animus Vox (2010). Please respect copyrighted material of musical artists by visiting iTunes. MOTION PICTURES USED Citizen Kane Orson Welles The Maltese Falcon John Huston Casablanca Michael Curtiz Brief Encounter David Lean It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra The Third Man Carol Reed Sunset Blvd. Billy Wilder Psycho Alfred Hitchcock Tokyo Story Yasujirô Ozu Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton Inva...
PUBLIC DOMAIN PROPERTY Directed by Josef von Sternberg Produced by Alexander Korda Written by Robert Graves (adapting own novel) Starring Charles Laughton Flora Robson Emlyn Williams Merle Oberon Release date(s) 1937 (intended) Country UK Language English
Gibbous Moon is the fourth and final track in a four-song 7" Momus EP due to be released exclusively in early 2011 by Tona Serenad Records, a Swedish label specialising in vinyl one-offs and limited editions. The song was written around samples provided by John Henriksson from the label. Pre-ordering for the limited edition 7-inch will begin shortly. The video shows a scene from the Charles Laughton movie Night of the Hunter. http://www.tonaserenad.com
Rita Hayworth Hija del bailarín Eduardo Cansino, natural de Castilleja de la Cuesta (Sevilla, España), y de Volga Haworth, de origen irlandés. Rita empezó su carrera como bailarina junto a su padre, y con su nombre real, a la temprana edad de 13 años. Llegó a Hollywood en 1933, y desde 1935 actuó como actriz en papeles secundarios, realizando muchas películas de serie B en las que sobre todo destacó por sus dotes para la danza, o por su elegante aspecto. De esta etapa destaca la película Charlie Chan en Egipto (1937), de Louis King, película perteneciente a la saga dedicada al célebre detective oriental, en la que trabajó junto a Warner Oland, que encarnaba a Chan. Fue su marido, por aquel entonces Edward Judson, quien la lanzó al estrellato, convirtiéndola en su mejor inversión persona...
Filmed through a microscope, this piece superimposes footage from Anna May Wong’s performance in the silent film “Piccadilly” (1929) unto a magnified strand of my hair. The film sampled is a scene from "Piccadilly" (1929). Anna May Wong plays a dishwasher in the London theater. The theater director, played by Charles Laughton, discovers her dancing in the scullery, fires her, and then later brings her to the stage. Music, editing, video by Minette Lee Mangahas (c) 2011
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