Filmmaker · United States
Charles Laughton
Died in 1962
Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, England, in 1899, into a family of hoteliers. He served in France in 1918, where he was gassed, trained in drama in London and became a stage and film actor; an Oscar crowned him for a role as an English king. Settled in the United States, whose citizenship he took in 1950, he acted in about fifty films, directed for the stage and gave public readings on tour. He died in Hollywood in 1962.
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- CinemaThe Night of the HunterCharles Laughton · 1955Cinema